Five years ago, Richard Matheson passed away. In my opinion, he changed everything. Although George Romero would introduce the zombie apocalypse to filmgoers in 1968, Matheson invented the genre 14 years earlier with I AM [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #7 - THE GODDAMNED BATMAN from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Was there any doubt Batman would not make this list? Jesus, when I write a grocery list for Costco it [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #8 - SERGEANT MARTIN RIGGS from the Lethal Weapon series. I was ten or eleven months in when it hit me my best friend was dead. I was working up in [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #9 -COMMANDER JAMES BOND. It's the human moments in the series that win me over, starting with the death of his wife Teresa in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I suppose [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #10 - SNAKE-EYES from G.I. Joe. It’s an ingenious concept to have your character covered head-to-toe in a costume -- like Spider-Man or Deadpool. Not even the eyes are accessible to [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #11 - ROBERT MCCALL from The Equalizer. In an episode of my second favorite TV show of all time, ex-Company agent turned guardian-of-the-common-man has a crooked cop against the wall. The [...]
#12 - "DOC" CARTER & CAROL MCCOY from The Getaway. Like Kurosawa with The Seven Samurai, Sam Peckinpah's go-to film seems to be The Wild Bunch. Others call upon Straw Dogs or Pat Garrett & [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #13 - DETECTIVE "DIRTY" HARRY CALLAHAN. Some of my earliest memories of movies come from my Dad loving Dirty Harry movies. Which is odd, because he can't tell any of them [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #14 - JASON BOURNE from the Bourne Movies. I admit I've never read any of the popular novels that these films are based on (and I hear they're very loosely based [...]
50 GREATEST FICTIONAL BADASSES #15 - PARKER. Donald Westlake created a character in 1962 that can only be labeled a "non-hero." Parker is a thief -- but he’s no charming cat-burglar who playfully eludes clueless [...]