One of the bigger movie surprises of last year was the arrival of Creed. The seventh Rocky film managed to be one of the best reviewed of the year, and even ended up on The Movie Mensch’s Top 15 of 2015. Now — if you missed it or simply want […]
Creed
In short, the answer to the question in this article’s headline is no. Yet, perception is sometimes quite the unknown entity in Hollywood. See, even more than a nomination can help someone’s chances at winning an Academy Award, not getting a Golden Globe can actually hurt someone’s chances of hearing […]
Oscar Watch: Do Golden Globe Nominations Alter Race?
More and more these days, the trailer can make or break a film. And with studios spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make their movies, there is a lot riding on the coming attraction. There were hundreds of them that debuted through 2015 and in the first of The […]
Top 10 Trailers of 2015: Whose Tease Is Most Terrific?
Mockingjay Part 2 had a lot of competition in its second week of release. There was the Pixar film The Good Dinosaur, the Rocky spin-off Creed and the Daniel Radcliffe starring Victor Frankenstein. Turns out, none of the new films were a match for Katniss and her final pull of […]
Mockingjay Part 2 Holds Off Creed & The Good Dinosaur: ...
After the decently received Rocky Balboa came and went in 2009, fans of the boxing series that began with a Best Picture Oscar for the first film probably thought the series was over. When Creed was announced as a spin-off of sorts a couple of years ago, anticipation was immediately […]
Creed Review: An Emotional Knock Out
The full-length trailer for Creed has arrived, and The Movie Mensch is a little surprised at how much we are looking forward to this Rocky spin-off. Sylvester Stallone is back as Rocky Balboa, and we meet the former boxing champ living peacefully in his hometown of Philadelphia as a restaurant owner […]
Creed Trailer: Rocky In For Fight of His Life!
When we first heard about the Rocky spin-off Creed, we came at it with one eyebrow raised. The one thing that had us intrigued is the fact that it starred one of our favorite up-and-coming actors, Michael B. Jordan. The Fruitvale Station star is nothing short of a supreme talent […]