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The Bruce Lee Retrospective Link List
Click on the film title below you want to read the retrospective of: 1. The Big Boss...
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Filmwerk Podcast #125 – Bruce Lee
Ben Pegley and Steven Hurst cover the short but prosperous career of martial arts legend Br...
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Action Heroes – Bruce Lee: Game of Death
Welcome one and all, to the fifth (and final), Bruce Lee movie retrospective. A mome...
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Action Heroes – Bruce Lee: Enter The Dragon
OK, we have now made it to a very important moment in Bruce Lee’s film career, as...
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Action Heroes – Bruce Lee: Way Of The Dragon
When the subject of doing these retrospectives came up at Filmwerk Towers, I imm...
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Action Heroes – Bruce Lee: Fist Of Fury
Well, here we are again; fresh from the fairly lengthy business of not only introduci...
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Action Heroes – Bruce Lee: The Big Boss
Part 1: Introductions Welcome one and all to this series of retrospectives focused on...
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The Expendables 2 Review
With a crash bang and a fair few wallops, Expendables 2 explodes onto screens with the ret...
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Filmwerk Podcast #26 Retrospective: Statham
Fully hair headed, Steven Hurst and Staham stalker, Suzanne King tackle the film...
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Filmwerk Podcast #24 Retrospective: Willis
The action just won’t stop here. As part of our action hero retrospective s...
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Filmwerk Podcast #23 Retrospective: Rambo
Not satisfied with their coverage of the Rocky film series, Steven Hurst and ever...
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Filmwerk Podcast #22 Retrospective: Van Damme
Van Damme gets his slow motion scream on and a few roundhouse kicks in this ed...
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Filmwerk Podcast #21 Retrospective: Schwarzenegger
We turn our attention to perhaps the most successful of all the action s...
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Filmwerk Podcast #19 Retrospective: Rocky (Part 2)
The gloves are off and in this final round we look at the last three Rocky ...
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Filmwerk Podcast #18 Retrospective: Rocky (Part 1)
We start our action hero retrospective podcast season with a look at the f...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rambo
We bookend this Stallone series (and finish the entire Action Hero retrospective) w...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rambo III
Rambo III had a budget of $63 million, making it the most expensive film ever made at the...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rambo: First Blood Part II
The year is 1985 and Stallone’s Rocky IV has thrilled and spilled everyon...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: First Blood
John J. Rambo’s cinematic introduction was (believe it or not), a surprisingly subtle p...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rocky Balboa
The 1990s had been mostly poor for Stallone but as the century turned over t...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rocky V
Hmmmm…..I’m desperately trying to think of a way of introducing this fifth inst...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rocky IV
Some of you may have read my recent review of Captain America, in which I lampooned him as the worst symbol of the ‘A...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rocky III
Filmwerk’s Stallone season continues, and I now get the chance to do the ...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rocky II
Sylvester Stallone is back as the human punch bag Rocky Balboa out to show the M...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Rocky
Just in case anyone thought that during this action hero retro season that we forgo...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: The Expendables
When The Expendables was first announced by Stallone, there was an air of almost fr...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Driven
So Stallone took on a new sport, or is that returned to the racetrack after Death Race 2000,...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Get Carter
Well, you can either compare a remake to the original or let it stand on its o...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Copland
Perhaps you remember when James Mangold’s Cop Land came out back in 1997. Even if...
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Action Heroes – Stallone: Daylight
Sylvester Stallone in Rob Cohen directed big budget, small scale quasi disaster movie acti...
