“Rambo” – Maitland McDonagh reviews

January 26, 2008 Maitland McDonagh

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Stallone resurrected traumatized Vietnam-veteran John Rambo after a 20-year hiatus. And if not what’s generally meant by the term “good movie,” the result is the farthest thing from a bland, spineless sequel imaginable: It’s a brutal, insanely excessive successor to grindhouse pictures of yore.Read more>>

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Maitland McDonagh

Formerly TVGuide.com's senior movies editor/reviewer, Maitland McDonagh now has her own site, Miss FlickChick.com, and freelances for Film Comment, Time Out NY and other publications. She has written four books -- Broken Mirrors Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Filmmaking on the Fringe, The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time and Movie Lust -- and contributed to many others, including Film Out of Bounds, Fantasy Females, The Last Great American Picture Show and Exile Cinema. Read McDonagh's recent artilces below. For her Women On Film archive, type "Maitland McDonagh" into the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).