Rambo First Blood ($6) is our first introduction to the tormented Vietnam veteran, John Rambo. John gets caught up in an unfortunate chain events that sees him on the run and using his survival skills to avoid apprehension by the law of a small town. Directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna, First Blood has stood the test of time and is still a great movie more than three decades after it was first released.
Too many movies sugar coat things and make it look unrealistic. Drugstore Cowboy ($8) is not one of those movies. Directed by Gus Von Sant and starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, and James LeGros, this movie is a realistic road film about a drug addict’s life, his ‘family’, and the group’s inevitable downward spiral into […]