“Victoire! Victoire! “
Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in Victory is currently available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives. Ordering information can be found Here
This is no ordinary soccer match. This is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another “proof” of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins. Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape. Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climactic match is a heart-in-the-throat, hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pel�, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Co Prins, Mike Summerbee and more. Score a splendid entertainment goal for Victory!
John Huston directs a worldwide line-up of superstars in this rousing variation on the prison sports flick. Huston raises the stakes considerably, placing the action inside...
Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in Victory is currently available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives. Ordering information can be found Here
This is no ordinary soccer match. This is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another “proof” of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins. Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape. Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climactic match is a heart-in-the-throat, hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pel�, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Co Prins, Mike Summerbee and more. Score a splendid entertainment goal for Victory!
John Huston directs a worldwide line-up of superstars in this rousing variation on the prison sports flick. Huston raises the stakes considerably, placing the action inside...
- 2/21/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The legendary New York soccer team, the New York Cosmos, most famous as the team that “brought Pelé to America,” will be the subject of a new scripted TV series. The press release states that the focus of the proposed series will be on the meteoric rise of the club in the 1970s, through the maneuvering of former owner and Chairman of Warner Communications Steve Ross. Ross’ son Mark Ross is shepherding the project, along with former Cosmos captain Werner Roth, who is serving as acting executive producer. Four years ago, there was talk of a feature film based on the New York Cosmos story, with Caroline Rowland, director of the official London...
- 3/18/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
by Brett White
With Trask Industries "celebrating its 50th anniversary" by launching a super informative website (it also ties into "X-Men: Days of Future Past"—sshhh!), suddently Sentinels are all the rage! People can't stop talking about the giant, purple, mutant-hunting robots—and rightfully so! Need I reiterate that they are giant purple robots? It does not get much cooler than that.
The robotic foes have been a thorn in the X-Men's side since their early days, and the mechanical menaces have popped up in everything from video games to cartoons over the franchise's 50 years of existence. Truthfully, we could easily do more than one Required Reading post about the Sentinels—and we could even throw in a Required Watching or two ("Final Decision" from "X-Men" season one!). But when it comes down to the most essential Sentinel stories, here are the five that made the cut.
"Among Us Stalk.
With Trask Industries "celebrating its 50th anniversary" by launching a super informative website (it also ties into "X-Men: Days of Future Past"—sshhh!), suddently Sentinels are all the rage! People can't stop talking about the giant, purple, mutant-hunting robots—and rightfully so! Need I reiterate that they are giant purple robots? It does not get much cooler than that.
The robotic foes have been a thorn in the X-Men's side since their early days, and the mechanical menaces have popped up in everything from video games to cartoons over the franchise's 50 years of existence. Truthfully, we could easily do more than one Required Reading post about the Sentinels—and we could even throw in a Required Watching or two ("Final Decision" from "X-Men" season one!). But when it comes down to the most essential Sentinel stories, here are the five that made the cut.
"Among Us Stalk.
- 7/31/2013
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
"The Banshee is a tough son o' the auld sod and me jaw's had enough time to recover! I'm ready for ye again!" --Banshee With X-Men First Class looming in the horizon it would be nice to spotlight characters on that movie. So, let us know more about the Cbm character Banshee. --> Who is Banshee? Banshee is Sean Cassidy, an Irish mutant possessing a "sonic scream," capable of harming enemies’ auditory systems and causing physical vibrations. He is named after the Banshee, a legendary ghost from Irish mythology, said to possess a powerful cry. Banshee was a former Interpol agent and NYPD officer, an X-Men and mentor of the team Generation X. Banshee is a Marvel Comics superhero created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Werner Roth, Banshee first appeared in X-Men #28 (January 1967). Changing Looks First Appearance Banshee's first appearance he acted as an adversary to the X-Men under coercion,...
- 5/1/2011
- ComicBookMovie.com
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