Does this explain why she's such a formidable fighter? In Haywire, it went with her line of work. Also, and I'm just asking this for science, does she wear a bikini?

Look how beautifully smooth Phil Tippett's stop motion test was.

People forget how much wasn't CGI. This is amazing.

The original BAD LIEUTENANT is more sincerely Christian than a lot of films about redemption. In most such movies, a not-really-so bad character sacrifices himself for someone much better than he is. But in the Abel Ferrara movie, a truly awful person sacrifices himself for people even worse than he was.

This film's main idea, which seems to be a common urban legend amongst
the religious right, is patently absurd. Surely even the most
conservative stereotype of the "liberal ivory tower elites" would
acknowledge that any professor who forced his students to write "God is
Dead" would risk offending too many…

Were C. L. Moore ("Lewis Padgett" seems to have been more her than her husband) or Leigh Brackett in that anthology? I'm guessing not, since neither is typically identified with Hard SF, although "Padgett" was a Campbell regular. Stanley Weinbaum had a few decent female characters, but he predates Campell's…

I wonder if Kato will look as much like Bruce Lee as Batman looks like Adam West and (particularly) Catwoman looks like Julie Newmar. It's been a long time since Shang Chi looked just like him. If a current artist drew the Marvel character the way Gulacy did, there'd probably be legal action from Lee's family.

Haven't scrolled through all the comments yet, so somebody may have said this, but the HIDDEN FORTRESS influence is much more obvious in Lucas's earlier draft, THE STAR WARS. In it, Obi-Wan and Han are one person, a tough middle-aged general named Luke Starkiller. He ends up escorting a princess, who is basically…

Has this show done anything interesting with Anne Bonny yet? I mean, talk about a real-life badass with lots of dramatic potential. In the two films in which she appears, THE SPANISH MAIN (which improbably casts Maureen O'Hara as a Spanish princess when she should have played Anne) and ANNE OF THE INDIES, she's…

" I’m terrible at watching anything in black and white . . . ." Then you have no business working for this website and writing about the history of pop culture.

First time he turned up, I thought it was Columbo, but I recognized him the second time.

They're effective in the Scott version, but even more horrific in the Richard Williams one animated in the style of Victorian illustrations. The reveal at 7:25 shocked me as a kid.

A WITZEND collection? Wally Wood's legendary 'zine? Yeah, I'll chip in a few bucks!

I think there's a pretty significant difference between the hero of a series dying because of his misogyny and a villain who committed misogynistic violence being killed by the hero.

Thanks, that's what I thought.

I think the long shot rod puppet looks like a puppet, but disagree about the iconic shots of the leering demon head.

And removing the demon footage wouldn't make the film any more ambiguous. Bennett's original script was all "is it real or is it in his imagination" — Karswell is killed when lightning strikes a tree and causes a branch to fall on his car — but delete the demon scenes from Enfield's script and its existence is still…

I'm not sure I buy the claims that the demon was added at the last minute. While the script is credited to Charles Bennett, what he wrote bears little resemblance to the final film, but is instead a comedy-thriller with a lot of golf in it (kind of like the golfing segment of DEAD OF NIGHT). The actual uncredited…

In the documentary DEATH BY MISADVENTURE, Bruce's British doctor in Hong Kong makes a good case for his death being due to a bad reaction to cannabis and hashish, one which he'd had before and had almost killed him on the first occasion. It became "mysterious" because nobody at the hospital wanted to sign off on the…

The description of the title confusion is slightly off. THE BIG BOSS, Bruce's first starring film as an adult, was supposed to be retitled THE CHINESE CONNECTION because drugs figured in the plot and THE FRENCH CONNECTION was a hit. And his second, FIST OF FURY, was to become FISTS OF FURY because multiple fists…