Old Friends and New
I wrote last week that I would also talk about the crew behind Little Diva Rising, so I’ll start with the person who kicked everything off: Tony Nicholas. In 1977, my family moved into a new house – only four other families lived in the street. Several months later, another family moved in across the street – Tony’s. He was about a year older than me, but as kids we bonded and had the same sense of adventure and imagination and temerity – the typical way kids look at and experience and challenge the world. Tony was always a fan of the fight genre – particularly Bruce Lee, whose mystique…
Rating the Rocky Movies: Part II
Every artform is open to interpretation. We all like different things. So I’m sure there are people who disagree with my bottom four choices. That’s okay. I understand why people love the other Rocky movies; or if they even prefer one of the Creed movies, which are slick and well-made. I look at them from the point of view that I want them to be true to the original universe. Rocky III and Rocky IV feel as if they stray, trading substance for glitz. The Creed movies feel like they’re hitting the same beats but (for me) not generating the same emotion. They play like remakes trying to again capture…