Tag Archives: Sylvester Stallone

“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” — Sylvester Stallone

Posted on July 6, 2025 by sheila

Old-timers here will remember the Rocky phase that took over for a while. Of course the movies weren’t new to me. As a matter of fact, I know the first movie by heart, practically shot for shot, and there was … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Directors, Movies, On This Day | Tagged mirrors, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone | 6 Comments

May 2022 Viewing Diary

Posted on June 8, 2022 by sheila

This was the month of watching only the first two episodes of various television series. I just couldn’t keep going – not because they’re bad, but because … I have other things I have to do and/or watch. Robert De … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Al Pacino, Brad Pitt, comedy, Diane Keaton, documentary, drama, Dustin Hoffman, Elvis Presley, England, Frankenstein, Germany, Jack Black, Kurt Russell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Mary Shelley, Michael Mann, Owen Wilson, Robert De Niro, Robert Mitchum, romantic comedy, Sanaa Lathan, Sandra Bullock, Shelley Winters, Steve Martin, Sylvester Stallone, Tony Scott, women directors | 13 Comments

Mirrors #5: For Oscilloscope: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Posted on May 9, 2019 by sheila

Here it is, a piece I have wanted to write for years, and finally got around to it. For Oscilloscope: Mirror, Mirror: When Movie Characters Look Back at Themselves

Posted in Movies | Tagged Alain Delon, Faye Dunaway, Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Lang, Gena Rowlands, John Travolta, Johnny Handsome, M, Marlon Brando, Martin Scorsese, Martin Sheen, Mickey Rourke, mirrors, Paul Schrader, Peter Lorre, Richard Gere, Robert De Niro, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Shakespeare, Sylvester Stallone, Taxi Driver | 19 Comments

Packing/Unpacking Montage

Posted on February 13, 2017 by sheila

I haven’t been around these here parts much in the last 2 weeks. I moved to a new apartment on February 1 (and the move was somewhat unexpected. It all happened – finding apartment, applying, getting approved – in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Tagged Alfred Wertheimer, Elvis Presley, Gun Crazy, Hope, John Wayne, Quantum Leap, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, Ulysses | 13 Comments

Year in Review: Running my mouth in 2016

Posted on December 31, 2016 by sheila

I look at this and I wonder why I always feel like I haven’t done jack-squat. Or, at the very least, I could do more. Well, I always can do more. Regardless, here are links to some of the things … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Books, Movies, On This Day, Personal, RIP | Tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Baz Luhrmann, Buddy Holly, Camille Paglia, Carrie Fisher, Carroll Baker, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Chantal Akerman, Compulsion, David Bowie, Dean Stockwell, Dolly Parton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Eminem, friends, Gena Rowlands, George Stevens, Gilda, Isabelle Huppert, James Dean, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, July and Half of August, Katherine Dunn, Langston Hughes, Little Richard, Marion Cotillard, Marlon Brando, Matthias Schoenaerts, Merle Haggard, Mia Hansen-Løve, Miriam Hopkins, Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Hall, Richard Linklater, Rocky, Sam Cooke, Shakespeare, Something Wild, Stephen King, Sudden Fear, Supernatural, Sylvester Stallone, Tennessee Williams, The Great Gatsby, Wanda Jackson, women directors, year in writing, Zac Efron | 6 Comments

Oscars 2016: If We Picked the Winners: On Sylvester Stallone in Creed

Posted on February 24, 2016 by sheila

Well, you know I was thrilled when I was assigned to write on Sly in his Oscar-nominated Best Supporting actor performance in Creed for Rogerebert.com’s If We Picked the Winners series. (Table of Contents here.) Check back throughout the week … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Movies | Tagged drama, sports movies, Sylvester Stallone | 4 Comments

“[Ryan Coogler is] unspoiled, he’s unfettered with material success, and he’s hungry. He reminded me of some other brash young guy in 1975.” – Sylvester Stallone

Posted on February 17, 2016 by sheila

What a gorgeous and honest interview with Sylvester Stallone about his Oscar-nominated performance in Creed. (I wrote on Creed for Rogerebert.com’s year-end roundup.) He is so so good in Creed, and I’m grateful that I’m in the group of people … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Directors, Movies | Tagged Rocky, Sylvester Stallone | 7 Comments

10 Best Movies of 2015: Rogerebert.com Contributors

Posted on December 17, 2015 by sheila

The 10 regular reviewers at Rogerebert.com were polled for our top movies. Editors then tallied up the polls, came up with the winners: 10 Best Films of 2015 Each of us were assigned to write a short piece on one … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged reviews, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone | 9 Comments

Seeing Creed Today

Posted on November 20, 2015 by sheila

It’s one of my most-anticipated films of the year. Not just because of my long-standing Rocky obsession, plus my love of Sylvester Stallone, but because I think Michael B. Jordan is so excellent too (Fruitvale Station!) Plus the wonderful Tessa … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Rocky, sports movies, Sylvester Stallone | 6 Comments

The Creed Trailer

Posted on July 8, 2015 by sheila

Well. THAT was phenomenal. Never mind the fact that it pours right into my Rocky obsession, but the film is directed by the enormously gifted Ryan Coogler who brought us the harrowing Fruitvale Station. I’m thrilled he’s at the helm. … Continue reading →