I’m an absolute mark for 80s and 90s action cinema. Representative as some of them may be of an overbearing masculinity that sought to quell the voices calling for societal change in that period there’s something intrinsic to them that draws me in. Perhaps it’s the outrageous stunts, the pithy remarks, the exotic locations, […]
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