Exactly what were the stories in the last JONAH HEX run in which the client turned out to be "the real bad guy?"  I've read the bulk of the most recent revival, and most of the stories don't even have an on-stage client — Jonah is out to collect a publicly posted bounty, not acting on a personal commission.  Many of…

I'm looking forward to Christa Faust's CHOKE HOLD.  Her MONEY SHOT was, I thought, the strongest of the Hardcase originals.  Advance reviews for CHOKE HOLD suggest that it has provocative things to say about the similarities between MMA and porn (the latter was the subject of MONEY SHOT), not that Faust would consider…

Although the above already risks TLDR, one more point:

I'm not sure that MMA should be judged by the quality of people watching it live (or in sports bars).  I'm surprised by how many well-spoken college-educated women I know who like it (not that being either college-educated or well-spoken is necessarily a mark of quality in a person).

What the Titty Nigga said.

The myth of fantasy as a boy's club
I know trolls should be ignored, but can't we put this one to rest? Back in the 70s, when the marketing label "science fiction" started to include a lot of fantasy, fanzines were full of screeds decrying the "feminization" of the genre. Fantasy was largely written and read by…

What, no BLACK ORPHEUS?
The commentards who think there is something risible about the theme are guilty of cumgummed cocksuckery, but the omission of the most famous cinematic Carnival is unfortunate.

Having watched the lovely, quirky and very different movie this is based on a couple of months ago, I was surprised at how sympathetic the Todd character (played by a much more charismatic actor) was. He pretty much embraces India midway through the film, and even at his most ignorant, he's never as condescending or…

The consensus from the British press . . .
. . . has been that the big Aussie who plays Thor has real movie star charisma and makes the character a charmer, that the Asgard scenes, which were expected to be the film's biggest pitfall, are its strongest point, that Anthony Hopkins gives his most engaged performance in…

I liked this quite a bit more than Toblivious did
(And yeah, "Toblivious" a cheap shot, but I got woken up by the goddam troll boy in the basement apartment playing God of War and am cranky.)

The figure in the foreground is the young Connery (not that recognizable, but the eyebrows give it away, and I've seen the modeling shots from his body builder days that it's based on).

What the Hell, not more love for THE BAND WAGON?
I don't agree with Pauline Kael on a lot of things, but she was right whenshe declared it the best MGM musical. Yes, I know many prefer SINGING IN THE RING, but they're wrong. Not that RAIN isn't great, but BAND WAGON is funnier, ultimately more moving (it has a…

According to Boobpedia (and I love that there's a site called that), Tura was "just" 38E, not G.

Bishonen, I believe she said that Lloyd was the person who advised her to go into movies.

I'd be leery of the claim that Keaton did ALL of his own stunts. This takes nothing away from him; the man was a genius and physically amazing. But no actor who's ever been billed as doing all of his own stunts ever actually did 100% of them, not Keatn, not Lloyd, not Fairbanks, not Jackie Chan. All of these men…

Like I said, she's most likely somewhere between 18 and 22 in those photos, despite her claims. I'd happily post links to nude photos of her at the age of 28 (about the time she was in IRMA LA DOUCE) or 38 (when she did THE DOLL SQUAD), but I don't know of any. The main reason Meyer said he didn't use her again is…

Tura's nude shots by Harold Lloyd
The silent film star took these photos of a young Tura (originally in 3D, as Lloyd was fascinated by stereo photography) sometime in the 50s. Tura claimed she was underaged when they were taken and that Lloyd didn't know this (she said she'd started in burlesque at the age of 15 with…

True, lots of homophobes aren't closet cases. But Card is huge fan of amateur theater, he loves show tunes, and he's addicted to American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance. Well, okay, my late father, who was a big heterosexual horndog not above seducing my female friends when I was in high school and college,…

Boxers are some of the toughest strikers around, both in terms of dealing out punishment and receiving it, but they're not invulnerable. As others have said, they're very vulnerable to leg kicks, as their lower bodies simply aren't conditioned enough to withstand them (and even guys who are conditioned enough can…

Oliver's Superman writeups
I realize that the format is inevitably going to make them seem a bit perfunctory, and the Fleischer cartoons aren't that strong on plot or thematic import, but there's a lot to be said about their visual elements that he seems to be missing. How about the way the Arctic Giant seems a…