51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #30. ANNIE WILKES from MISERY When I briefly worked as the assistant to the executive producer of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA reboot, I asked my boss if the fans of the [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #31. DETECTIVE ALONZO HARRIS from TRAINING DAY TRAINING DAY is about as good as it gets for crime cinema. It plays on the same level as HEAT, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, and [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #32 HANS LANDA from INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS  I like to think in the weird, wooly esotericism of shared cinema universes, Hans Landa is a relative (if not the direct reincarnated soul) [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #33 TERRENCE FLETCHER from WHIPLASH Whiplash is sort of the antithesis to the “mentor/student” genre made big in the 1990s.  It’s GOOD WILL HUNTING if Robin Williams was a manipulative [...]

51 GREATEST BAD GUYS #34. LESTAT DE LIONCOURT from INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE *Note: I’m a big fan of the first book/film but never ventured into the other material. I wish I had applied that [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #35. JOFFREY BARATHEON from GAME OF THRONES In a show where atrocities are a weekly event, you never forget your first one (I can't seem to remember any horses being [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #36. HANS GRUBER from DIE HARD In a franchise that’s been as long-running as Die Hard, it’s kind of sad that I can name only two of its Big Bads: [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #37. TRAVIS BICKLE from TAXI DRIVER I really discovered Taxi Driver when I was 20 years old and going to film school in Eugene, Oregon. I had seen the film [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #38. MAN’S CONSCIENCE from DELIVERANCE Many filmmakers have attempted to imitate DELIVERANCE’s ferocity, but like so many STAR WARS and HALLOWEEN knock-off’s, they miss the point on what made its [...]

#39 TOMMY DEVITO from GOODFELLAS.  Joe Pesci’s interpretation of former New York mobster Tommy “D” DeSimone is chaos in human form.  Every time I watch GOODFELLAS (and I do so a lot), every scene where [...]