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51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #49. THE KURGAN from HIGHLANDER. Now, if you ask me (and I’m quite sure no one has... shame on you; you’re all dicks), the Kurgan had it right all along. [...]
51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #50
51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #50. JOHN KREESE from THE KARATE KID. A couple of years ago, Lena Dunham came out protesting that sushi was cultural appropriation. Yes, this actually made headlines. There’s no way [...]
51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #51
51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #51. PATRICK BATEMAN from AMERICAN PSYCHO. I’m not a big Bret Easton Ellis fan. I had to break down one of his unmade scripts once, a moc-autobiographical adaptation of one [...]
REMEMBERING GEORGE A. ROMERO
REMEMBERING GEORGE A. ROMERO We horror fans lost our patron saint last year. I was first introduced to George Romero at the age of 10 when someone in my home (most likely my sister) brought [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #1
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #1 - CONAN OF CIMMERIA. Some guys wish they were rich, some wish they were famous. Some daydream of being rock gods that bed Eurasian models, while others still dream of [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #2
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #2 - WILLIAM MUNNY. Clint Eastwood is a brilliant filmmaker, nowhere more evident than his 1992 swan song to the western genre, UNFORGIVEN. Munny is a farmer, faithful widower and caretaker [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #3
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #3 - MAX ROCKATANSKY. The Road Warrior. The Man with No Name. Raggedy Man. The Man Who Keeps Mr. Dead in His Pocket. Mad Max. There is no action film better [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #4
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #4 - JOHN JAMES RAMBO. Stallone is a tricky guy. For every Cop Land or Nighthawks, you get a dozen Over the Top’s or Cobra’s. Don’t even ask me to rank [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #5
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #5 - LOGAN/WOLVERINE from Marvel Comics. He certainly wasn’t the first Canadian super-hero. But he was the best, the coolest, and (unfortunately for him) the most popular. By now, most everyone [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #6
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #6 - S.D. BOB “SNAKE” PLISSKEN from the Escape From series. No one can pull off a mullet like Kurt Russell. Trust me, I went to high school in Trail, BC, [...]