He's the only one of the Fortunes instantly recognizable in ENTER THE DRAGON.

It quite possibly is. Yuen Wah is truly scary as the psycho Vietnamese colonel. And man, Biao in the jungle.

If only Lam could have teamed up with the young athletic Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, to battle hopping vampires and Lee's Dracula.

Since her death, it's hard to watch Anita's lovely song montage without tearing up.

According to Phillipe Mora, director of THE HOWLING 2 and THE HOWLING 3, who gave Christopher Lee one of his best roles of his later career in the uneven and sloppy but underrated RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE (which now seems a bit predictive of Alan Moore, although there's no evidence that Moore actually saw it, the…

Wasn't that originally in THE SEVEN-PERCENT SOLUTION, when Nicol Williams's Holmes and Robert Duvall's Watson visit a brothel where all of the prostitutes are redheads?

It's a great movie. The scene where the killer is revealed is terrifying. "I couldn't find any gloves."

Well, both Raquel Welch and Dyan Cannon wear bikinis, and then there's the young Ian McShane.

That's actually a good point. Most WW2 heroes didn't boast and were uncomfortable talking about it.

Assuming that she did even half the things she's said to have done, Liudmyla Pavlychenko was a hero. They'd invaded her country, and she went after the highest ranked officers she could get in her sights.

While he was clearly a liar, and possibly mentally disturbed, I'm not sure about that particular tall tale. I've not read his book, but what I've been told/read about it is that story isn't in it, and I am under the possibly wrong impression that he never said it in any recorded interview. Instead, it's story told…

Reading Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers by the late William T. Auman. Fascinating stuff, all centered in my county and the surrounding ones. Both because the subject of Southern Unionists hasn't received much study, and…

The deuce you say. THE ADDAMS FAMILY benefited from classic NEW YORKER source material, a completely different world view, and the terrific Carolyn Jones, still the best of Morticias. Yes, there were plenty of dumb sitcom jokes, and it was never as delightfully ghoulish as Addams' original cartoons, but it featured…

There's some bad stuff there, yes, and I can't call him either a better wordsmith or better at characterization than Delano, but after all the dreary eco-hippie stuff in the last half of Delano's run, it was such a blessed relief to have John as a charming trickster bastard again.

I know this is uncharitable of me, and that one should never hate on people for loving things one feels one has outgrown (it makes you a smug bastard, for one thing), but I find myself as discomfited by people who say they love the PREACHER comic as I am by those who love THE BOONDOCK SAINTS.

Also watched tonight's episode of AMC's documentary series THE AMERICAN WEST, which reenacts Little Big Horn with a few extras as Brannagh potrayed Agincourt in HENRY V, but less convincingly. I do find it interesting that they cast both Custer and Jesse James with actors who look like assholes. Now, historically,…

Watched tonight's episode of HELL ON WHEELS and it confirmed what the last TV Club review said of the show back in 2013; it's actually become good, having ditched the first show runner, the whole pseudo Josie Wales Lost Cause bulllshit (hey, OUTLAW JOSIE WALES is a great film, but we don't need nay more former…

i'm still looking for the trade collecting the first of Warren Ellis's James Bond arcs, VARGR (Norse for wolf, similar to the OE "warg"). I really liked the latest issue, which kicks off a rebirth of SPECTRE plot and includes a great black comedy gag where Bond discards a gun in a trash bin and tells the heroine "this…

I also picked up Darwyn Cooke's old issue of SOLO, which is of course delightful. Nice to see Slam Bradley and King Farraday. The Farraday story is particular well-drawn. God fucking shit damn it.

The first THE VISION trade. Very well written and genuinely creepy, in a completely different style than King's excellent and heartbreaking THE SHERIFF OF BABYLON (I still haven't read GRAYSON). My only problem is the over-all arc and the portents of doom. I'm tired of imminent apocalypses and the threat that the…