51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #12. GORDON GEKKO from WALL STREET A lot of times the villain gives a compelling case for the hero to see things his way. Sometimes whatever the villain has to [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #13. NOAH CROSS from CHINATOWN Of all the malignant, heartless bastards on this list, Noah Cross is the most degenerate. He not only rapes the law, the land and people’s [...]

G.I.JOE RETALIATION My son is really into G.I.Joe right now (probably because I have all my old toys in a display case in my office, and I absolutely loved the Larry Hama comic book in [...]

REMEMBERING TOBE HOOPER I believe a lot of us who grew up watching horror films are deeply religious. Something in the VHS tapes latched onto us the moment the credits started rolling, and beyond the [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #14. PROINSIAS CASSIDY from PREACHER (comic books) I have to admit, on the grand scale of evil, Cassidy doesn’t come close to most of the bastards on this list, nor [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #15. GUNNERY SGT. HARTMAN from FULL METAL JACKET Back in the late 80s, my best friend was in the Canadian Militia (for my American friends, it isn’t as redneck as [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #16. TONY MONTANA from SCARFACE Every side-street portrait artist I pass on Granville has at least six stills from Scarface in glorious charcoal or ink ready for purchase. I’ve seen [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #17. ELI CROSS from THE STUNT MAN I am a big, big fan of THE STUNT MAN. I saw the poster when I was a kid (an iconic illustration of [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #18 NORMAN BATES from PSYCHO I gave BATES MOTEL three episodes and that was it for me. Let me preface this. I’m sure there are some who watch BATES MOTEL [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #19. CHARLES FOSTER KANE from CITIZEN KANE Everything you heard is true, CITIZEN KANE is the greatest motion picture ever made. It has a lot of achievements heaped on its [...]