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Monthly Archives: This movie was a total surprise for me. I had no desire to see it, only going because I wanted to see Nick Nolte’s performance. Not only was he excellent in it, the movie was one of the best movies I have seen this year. Nolte plays a former alcoholic boxer who...
A rough-and-tumble Queens kid who served in the Marines and fought as a professional boxer, Young studied acting under Lee Strasberg before finding the role that would define him: Paulie Pennino, the volatile but big-hearted friend to Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa in 1977’s “Rocky.”...
Rumors spread that Jakob has a radio. Using the big-mouthed former boxer Mischa (Liev Schreiber) as a conduit, Jakob reluctantly leaks hints of more bad news for the Nazis. He’s making it all up, of course, but in a situation like this, every shred of hope could save lives. We mee...