It's Oscar night, so we thought this would be a good time to pay homage to a convention of modern movies. It can be traced back to the original "Rocky," the Academy Award-winner for best picture in ...

In the 1985 boxing classic, Rocky IV, there is a training montage that spans roughly eight minutes of the movie (not counting the brief conversation between Rocky Balboa and his wife in the middle).

The steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, now coined the "Rocky Steps," have become a famous location after Rocky Balboa, played by Sylvester Stallone, ran up them at the end of iconic training ...