Joe Lara

The Ultimate Nu Image Countdown

It could be said that Nu Image walked so that Millennium could run. Long before Millennium Films (now Millennium Media) resurrected the Rambo franchise and launched The Expendables and Has Fallen franchises, Nu Image was churning...

Bullet Points: Tarzan in Manhattan

Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of the Tarzan character, probably never envisioned that his creation would eventually make the jump from the African jungle to the urban jungle but that is exactly what happened in 1942’s...

Bullet Points: Steel Frontier

How much time should we be spending preparing for the post-apocalypse? I can’t turn my TV on without seeing 19 programs taking place after the world collapses but I so rarely have “real-life” discussions about what...

Bullet Points: Warhead

If there is one thing that action movie fans love more than a team up between two established action stars, it is when two established action stars are pitted against one another. By 1996, both Frank...

Bullet Points: Hologram Man

There is chaos in the streets, a deadly shootout between the LAPD and some bad guys, cars are on fire and blowing up, a rookie detective is saying shit multiple times, a grizzled cop is going...

Bullet Points: Armstrong (1998)

When I first heard that Frank Zagarino and Joe Lara starred opposite of one another in 1998’s Armstrong, two questions immediately came to mind, who plays the bad guy and why did I hope it was...

Bullet Points: Doomsdayer

There are not many things worse than copying.  Please don’t try any copy the look and dress of co-workers no matter how fashionable you might find them  Copying off of classmates is unfair and deceitful and...