SCHWARZENEGGER/STALLONE: THE RISE OF BEEFCAKE CINEMA
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Kicking off just in time for Father’s Day, and running from June 16 to September 1, Schwarzenegger/Stallone: The Rise of Beefcake Cinema follows Arnold Schwarzenegger’s and Sylvester Stallone’s rise to box-office royalty.
A tonne of fun, we're also appealing to closet action movie junkies. Yes, the late 20-something year-old who was too young to go to the cinema, but remember enough of it to know it's awesomeness. Remember the guy who introduced it to you: Dad.
Programmed by Todd Brown, Schwarzenegger/
Schwarzenegger/Stallone: The Rise of Beefcake Cinema screenings include:
The Terminator
James Cameron, 1984, USA
Saturday, June 16, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 16, 8:00 p.m.
James Cameron's low-budget sci-fi action thriller launched Arnold Schwarzenegger to stardom in his role as an unstoppable cyborg assassin programmed with a nicely deadpan sense of humour.
First Blood
Ted Kotcheff, 1982, USA
Saturday, June 30, 8:00 p.m.
Sylvester Stallone had his first non-Rocky hit playing lovable sociopath John Rambo in this lean, mean action thriller, in which the eternally misunderstood killing machine is hunted through the forests of the Pacific Northwest by an army of cops and National Guardsmen.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
James Cameron, 1991, USA
Saturday, July 14, 8:00 p.m.
Having had his switch flipped from "Evil" to "Good," Arnold Schwarzenegger's invincible cyborg returns to protect the adolescent future leader of the human resistance from another, even more formidable Terminator.
Cliffhanger
Renny Harlin, 1993, USA/Italy/France
Saturday, July 21, 8:00 p.m.
In this white-knuckle, physics-defying thriller, Sylvester Stallone plays an alpine rescue ranger battling a gang of high-tech thieves who have landed on his mountain looking to retrieve their lost loot.
Conan the Barbarian
John Milius, 1982, USA
Saturday, July 28, 8:00 p.m.
Arnold Schwarzenegger crushes his enemies, sees them driven before him and hears the lamentations of the women as the mighty, sword-swinging warrior in John Milius' mildly fascist fantasy epic.
Demolition Man
Marco Brambilla, 1993, USA
Saturday, August 4, 8:00 p.m.
A disgraced 20th-century cop (Sylvester Stallone) is released from his cryogenic prison in a utopic future to hunt down his psychotic, recently defrosted nemesis (Wesley Snipes).
Total Recall
Paul Verhoeven, 1990, USA
Saturday, August 11, 8:00 p.m.
Arnold Schwarzenegger teams up with Dutch master of excess Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop) for this stupendously violent, gleefully nasty and polymorphously perverse science-fiction thriller.
Daylight
Rob Cohen, 1996, USA
Saturday, August 18, 8:00 p.m.
Sylvester Stallone continued his quest to redefine himself for the 1990s in this old-fashioned disaster film, playing a former Manhattan EMS chief who descends into a collapsed, rapidly flooding tunnel to lead the survivors to safety.
The Running Man
Paul Michael Glaser, 1987, USA
Saturday, August 25, 8:00 p.m.
Stephen King wrote the source novel for this sci-fi action flick, in which a wrongly accused man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in a dystopian future must battle his way through a deadly gladiatorial game show to regain his freedom.
Rocky
John G. Avildsen, 1976, USA
Saturday, September 1, 8:00 p.m.
Sylvester Stallone went from bit player to overnight sensation as the writer and star of this much-loved, Academy Award–winning underdog tale.