Will Sloan
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Articles by Will Sloan:
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July 19, 2012
Defending the Indefensible: The Three StoogesIn the latest edition of Defending the Indefensible, Will Sloan looks at a modern film that’s been maligned almost simply because of how faithful it is to some decidedly unhip source material: The Farrelly Brothers’ The Three Stooges.
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June 23, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: Stallaw and OrderOur look at the career of Sylvester Stallone rolls on with a look at the surprisingly underrated Tango and Cash and the generally forgotten about Lock Up which find Sly on different sides of the law.
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June 11, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: Stallone and GlobusYou’re the disease, and he’s the cure. This week we look at Sylvester Stallone’s collaborations with Golan-Globus, better known as Cannon Films, producers of the “unforgettable” Cobra and Over the Top.
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June 4, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: StallikableOur look at the career of Sylvester Stallone goes back and forward, looking at Sly’s attempts at universal likability with his stint as a guest host on Saturday Night Live and his misbegotten country music film Rhinestone.
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May 21, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: StalloliticsAs our Stallone retrospective rolls on, we jump ahead oh so slightly to take a look at the writer-actor’s political leanings in Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rocky IV, Rambo, and The Expendables.
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May 15, 2012
The Dictator ReviewThe Dictator is simultaneously tasteless and toothless – a provocation in search of a point, taking a potentially explosive premise and reducing it to the level of a mediocre studio comedy and never living up to any of its transgressive promises.
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May 14, 2012
Scenes from The Dictator Press JunketWe went to the press conference for The Dictator last week, and while star Sacha Baron Cohen put on a great show in character as General Aladeen, where does the character end and the man behind it begin?
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May 13, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: Stallarting OverOur Sylvester Stallone retrospective reaches the manliest part of his career yet with Rocky III and the first introduction to John Rambo in First Blood.
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May 6, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: Stallerican IdolIn the sixth part of our on going look at the career of Sylvester Stallone, we look at another sports themed movie, Victory and the cultural impact of his celebrity in the 2009 documentary Amerika Idol.
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April 28, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: Sylvauteurist StallequelsIn part five of his ongoing series on the career of Sylvester Stallone, Will Sloan takes a look at how the man found his way into doing sequels before his action star days with Rocky 2 and his directing of the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive.
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April 22, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: A Working Class Sylvero Is Something to BeIn part four of his ongoing series, Will Sloan further probes the early, now postRocky era of Sylvester Stallone’s career with the often forgotten about F.I.S.T. and the even more forgotten about Paradise Alley.
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April 13, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: StalloscarThe time has come in our weekly Sylvester Stallone series to look at his most successful creation thus far: the Oscar winning tale of Rocky Balboa.
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April 10, 2012
Defending the Indefensible:
Cracking UpIn our second semi-irregular instalment of Defending the Indefensible, Will Sloan looks at Jerry Lewis’ final directorial effort, 1983’s Cracking Up.
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April 6, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: Sylveary Work, Part 2This week, in our second installment in our series looking back at the works of Sylvester Stallone, Will Sloan takes a look at even more of the actor’s pre-Rocky early work with Lords of Flatbush and Death Race 2000
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March 30, 2012
The Sylvester Stalloeuvre: Sylvearly WorkIn the weeks leading up to the release of Expendables 2, Will Sloan takes a look at the career of the one and only, Sylvester Stallone, from the beginning, to the bitter middle, to his resurgence. First up, the early works: Woody Allen’s Bananas and The Party at Kitty and Stud’s.
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film
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TV
My Brilliant Friend Episodes 4.01 – 4.03 Review
The fourth and final season of HBO's hidden gem, My Brilliant Friend, returns with more quietly observed drama surrounding classism and motherhood.
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music
Piece by Piece: TIFF 2024 Review
Morgan Neville’s Piece by Piece delivers a visually stunning look at Pharrell Williams’ legendary life and career.
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podcasts
Springfield Googolplex Ep. 36: All the President’s Men with Devan Scott
For their election special, Devan Scott joins the podcast to dissect All the President’s Men and The @Simpsons' send up “Sideshow Bob Roberts.”
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