According to John Saxon, this is why Bruce Lee got so many challenges on the set of ENTER THE DRAGON. On earlier movies, it had because he was perceived as an arrogant American halfbreed who disparaged traditional kung fu on Hong Kong TV, so stunt men like Sammo Hung wanted a piece of him (Sammo admits to losing, and…

One of the many entertaining digressions in VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, OR THE FEAST OF BLOOD is a succession of repeatedly outlandish duels between secondary characters. I seem to recall they fight with axes AND in the dark, albeit not necessarily in the same duel.

Fun fact about dueling with swords. There were, as this article acknowledges, many duels in which neither side died. Judicial trials-by-combat, especially civil cases in which the duel "settled" a lawsuit or a land dispute, were often fought by professionals hired for the purpose rather than the litigants. Like…

Jim Beaver apparently got along with him well while filming a Priceline commercial. Also said Shatner was one of the best horsemen he's ever met.

The scene with Takeshi Kaneshiro and his dad and the video just kills me, every damn time.

He's clearly a trunt, and not a particularly interesting one.

He's a trilbynator

Thing is, there are a lot of interesting women in classic noir and hardboiled (which isn't the same thing) fiction and cinema. Even Spillane's dames were more interesting than this.

Along with the issues I raised in my previous comment, there's always the one of who's doing what to who. I know several women who readily acknowledge that John Cusack's behavior in SAY ANYTHING would be beyond the pale in real life, but that it didn't bother them when it was young John Cusack. And when I posted the…

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Oh sure. Different things trigger different people. From Connie's account on GEnie of taking people to see TALK TO HER, I'm guessing that somebody may have been triggered, although I don't know their gender. And of course some of my examples are pretty idiosyncratic. Christa Faust is a tough broad who's not…

In my obviously limited and anecdotal experience, women, even women who have difficulty watching rape scenes in other films, love Almodovar and don't seem troubled by this or by the heroine's cheery attitude in the comic rape scenes in KIKA and MATADOR. I've heard them laugh at those last two. Even TALK TO HER, which…

That's a provocative point, but I'm not sure I agree, as Adams' solo stuff of the 70s doesn't look like his work now. Here's his classic origin for Count Dracula, from Marvel's Dracula Lives.

Furthermore, the real story of this year's Hugo's is that the white supremacist SF writer Vox Day's attempt to juke the stats by asking people to vote for his pretty awful (not morally, just in a literary sense) short story and some works by other conservative writers as a way of redressing the perceived liberal bias…

I know you're just being snarky, but they actually say no such thing. Even if the award was proof of an objective "best" rather than simply who voted for what, all it would mean is that that particular episode of GoT is "better" than whatever individual episodes of DOCTOR W HO and ORPHAN BLACK were nominated. And…

527 pounds, actually, and very good acne. The secretion from the pustules under my left moob is more piquant than marmite, and goes nicely on a grilled cheese sandwich.

I prefer ROB BOY to BRAVEHEART. Neeson's Scots accent isn't any better than Gibson's, but the film is less bombastic and has room for interesting supporting characters. Tim Roth's Archie is a terrific villain; the nature of BRAVEHEART's story means that it can't offer Wallace a similarly memorable antagonist, even…

See my reply to Bloated Bowels above. Here's the Chick Tract that used to be titled SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL JEW.

While I have no particular reason to think Inannnity belongs to it, there's a strain of loony Fundamentalism that believes it's God's plan for Jews to stay Jewish. That's why there is no Jack T. Chick tract aimed at converting Jews. They used to have one called SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL JEW that's highly valued by…

If you'd said "fuck Obama," I might have agreed with you, although I think Michelle would be more fun in bed. Instead you chose to act the posturing twat and got swatted for your twattery.