Mickey Rourke

“Let’s See De Niro Do This”: On Orlando Bloom in Deep Cover

Amazon Prime's action-comedy Deep Cover is a decent original film, which is a pretty big thing to say in our era of never-ending streaming slop. Perhaps the main reason why it's so watchable is surprisingly Orlando Bloom. He's deeply funny and delightfully self-aware in the film. Bloom plays Marlon Swift, a failed actor and improv…Read more “Let’s See De Niro Do This”: On Orlando Bloom in Deep Cover

On Creed, Sylvester Stallone and Why Now is the Time to Make “Poe”

This Thanksgiving, Sylvester Stallone returned in Ryan Cooger's Creed to play the iconic palooka Rocky Balboa for the seventh time. Standing easily as one of the greatest performances of his career (it's hard to top the original Rocky), the film beautifully bookends the man's work up to this point. Even better, it opens up new,…Read more On Creed, Sylvester Stallone and Why Now is the Time to Make “Poe”