But this was the week Stallone tightened his grip on the country’s psyche. His original stint as John Rambo, “First Blood,” opened in 1982 and was a more sizable hit than you’d expect for a movie ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The biggest movie released in the summer of 1985 was Back to the Future, a lighthearted time-travel romp riffing on ’50s nostalgia during the dead center of the Reagan ...

A series of action films that follows John Rambo, a US Army veteran, who is traumatized by his experience in the Vietnam War, and uses the skills he gained there to fight corrupt police officers, ...

Rambo is an American media franchise centered on a series of action films featuring the character of the same name. There have been five films released so far in the series: First Blood (1982), Rambo: ...

In the Reagan era, manly men, fighting machines and James Bond ruled the Memorial Day box office, but a young Eddie Murphy and Madonna made a mark. By Wesley Morris Thirty-five Memorial Days ago, ...

Taglines: They sent him on a mission and set him up to fail, but they made one fatal mistake. They forgot who they were dealing with: Rambo.

Rambo is released from prison by the military for a covert mission in Vietnam to search for prisoners of war. In the camp, he actually finds American soldiers. But when he tries to rescue one, the ...