You have Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I raise you a House of Flying Daggers.

As someone who actually knows female fighters, a personal pet peeve of mine is shitty depictions of female warriors in movies. I count wonder woman as a horrible depiction of a woman warrior. Now, THE WASP kicks alllll kinds of ass.

The new trilogy really is a blast.

Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace version, obvs):

Reeeeealy wish this said where/if each are streaming. Tank Girl is on Hulu and I watched for the first time in over 15+ years and it’s a wonderfully flawed piece of insanity, particularly if you were a 90's grrrl.

She knows her value.

Tomb Raider - Angelina Jolie, Alicia Vikandar, take your pick. Both iterations of this video game adaptation have their own merits and feature excellent, charismatic lead performances.

You may want to re-read the article.

You left out agent Peggy Carter, one of the greatest.

House on Haunted Hill is, honest to God, one of my favourite horror movies ever. Not only it has great scenery chewing by Geoffrey Rush, and the presence of THE sex symbol of my early teens (Famke Janssen), there’s something about the production design and general vibe about this particular haunting that feels off.…

I pretend that The Devil’s Advocate is the sequel to Rosemary’s Baby. I like it that way.

I do have to admit that there is a special place in my heart for great actors who have 1) realized that this is that kind of movie, 2) that this gives them the freedom to give exactly that kind of performance, and through their performance 3) immediately elevate something bad into a form of surreal high art.

I own it and can confirm. My favorite Affleck snark is when he remembers telling Bay how stupidly ridiculous it is that in the movies weird universe its easier to train a bunch of random oil drilling stiffs to fly in space and dig a hole than it is to train astronauts to...dig a hole.

It’s really weird to be reminded that City of Angels exists. Not just because of the Wings of Desire connection, but because it was the kind of movie that could top the weekend box office in 1998. That feels like a century ago. 

Anyone who does not own the Criterion Collection DVD of Armageddon needs to go out and buy it now, if for nothing else than the commentary track where Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis do their best MST3K impressions and shred the movie.

Until I watched Hunters, The Devil’s Advocate was my favorite Pacino performance. He just feasted on the scenery.

Donkey balls on a collision course with Earth.

I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove Deep Blue Sea! It was the first DVD I ever bought. LL definitely steals the show and he gets, to my mind, one of the greatest lines in film. “You ate my bird.” DBS also has two of my favorite underrated actresses, Saffron Burrows…