The training montage in Spartacus (1960) moves fast enough to make the Capua school feel like a machine. Kirk Douglas is pushed through exhausting drills, used as a living anatomy chart, watched by ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. It's Oscar night, so we thought this ...

For as long as characters have needed to get whipped into shape over the course of a minute or two, there's been the training montage. Here, we look back at the 25 best of all time, from a swamp ...

You can't have an origin story without a training montage. That's standard issue stuff even for future MI6 man James Bond. I was expecting the usual "press the thumb stick to crouch" and "here's how ...

In any self-respecting sports flick, you can expect to find a training montage or two. In the case of the Rocky franchise, we’ve been treated to an abundance of them, putting our heroes through ...

Ralph Macchio's birthday -- he turns 54 on November 4 -- reminds us that, not only do we love the Karate Kid, but we love even more a training montage. You know, that staple of feel-good, fist-pumping ...