As far as ass-kicking heroine books by writers with hardboiled thriller credentials go, Lazarus is good but Brubalker's Velvet is a lot more fun, and the one I really want to see adapted.

That makes me want to say I often get mistaken for Neil Gaiman, but I'd be lying. I did however once get mistaken for Grant Morrison by someone who saw me eating with Neil and Jill Thompson.

Indeed they are. At least, they are at her concerts. And I say that as someone who used to love her, and who still really likes her earlier stuff, and was charmed by her when I met her (we have a mutual friend).

I mean Aamir. Imran is indeed the star of Delhi Belly, but Aamir plays Disco Fighter, the hero of the 70s Bollywood film that Aimir's flat mate Vir Das is obsessed with.

Adrienne Barbeau's dance in "Maude's Musical."

I knew nothing about Salman Khan before reading the comments here about what a douchebag he is. I was going to say that I enjoyed his cameo as Disco Fighter in DELHI BELLY, but am glad to see that I was thinking of Aamir Khan (DELHI BELLY, btw, is imho a rare example of a film that's better than the films it…

You realize that Age of Consent is THE Naked Helen Mirren Movie, yes? She spends half the film posing nude for James Mason, who is essentially the same character as Sam Neil in Sirens (aka the Naked Elle McPherson Movie). And she's 22 years old, playing a character in her teens.

It's been argued that standing a fighter back up with a ten-count actually increases the percussive damage. The mechanics of ground-n-pound are different, and a fighter who is allowed to get back up and collect himself can potentially receive far more damage.

Oh sure, the Purple Man is as horrifying as he's ever been, but there's plenty of fun in the book, and DD isn't a brooding mope.

And if you want to go old school, neither the early issues of DD written and drawn by the great Wally Wood (who was ony paid for drawing them, and quit because of it, a sore point that was probably why he never worked on Conan despite his lifelong love of sword and sorcery) nor the classic Colan/Palmer stories of the…

Someone hasn't been paying attention to what Marvel's been doing for the past few years, or for that matter to what the AV Club has been writing about what they've been doing. Mark Waid's critically-acclaimed run on Daredevil, which began in 2012, was the opening shot in Marvel's turn away from Grimdark and embrace…

Due to being perceived as a cocky half-breed (German grandmother) with an American accent who dissed traditional kung fu on Hong Kong TV and who had originally been hired for a supporting role but then displaced a popular local leading man, Bruce Lee was unpopular with the stunt team on his first Hong Kong film, and…

Actually trying helps, though. Van Damme gives easily the best performance in EXPENDABLES 3, other than Banderas. Age has given him charisma he didn't have when younger, but he's also become an effective screen presence.

Brain damage is actually more likely in boxing, Muay Thai and, especially, football than in MMA. MMA fighters' brains don't get rattled nearly as much.

No need to be a snot. Iko's acting skills actually seem quite credible. As others have said, I wish it was with Gina rather than Ronda. She's no great actress, but she's more charismatic onscreen than Ronda; she's more focused, better at listening to other people in a scene (seriously, the ability to appear to…

Indeed. Three words. Pam Fucking Grier.

Exactly. That's pretty much what happened to Nancy Wake and Christine Granville. We think those women were amazing badass warriors now, and we're right, but very few people seemed to once the fighting was over and they weren't needed to wreak havoc behind enemy lines.

It's not like Nancy Wake, the real life Peggy Carter, had the kind of postwar career you'd expect of a decorated male war hero who'd commanded Partisan guerrillas in battle and killed an SS sentry with a judo chop. Christine Granville, the model for Vesper Lynde and one of Britain's toughest and bravest wartime agent…

My own prejudices are showing, plus the ones I inherited from my father. I'm not big on most 30s blonds other than Lombard. Harlow in particular just looks kind of weird and mean to me. Even Lombard doesn't strike me as being nearly as physically attractive as Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, or Hepburn in THE…

Can anybody quote Jarvis's actual line about Ginger Rogers? She seems like she might have been a bit old for Stark by 1946 (it's not like she was a stunner like Rita Hayworth or Lauren Bacall, or imho Fred's greatest partner Cyd Charisse). Of course, Howard might be such a ladies man (i. e., horndog) that he doesn't…