Top 10 Toughest Action Movie Characters

Action movies will always be popular because people like heroes. Heroes that walk away from explosions without flinching, dodge bullets, ignore serious injuries, do death defying stunts and witty one-liners along the way. The number one prerequisite of being an action movie character? Toughness (and the ability to generate suspension of disbelief). So let’s count [...]

Posted on August 13th, 2010 by MrWiseguy
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The Way of the Sequel

Building up franchises is nothing new to the world of cinema. It has been going on since the early days (William Powell and Myrna Loy enjoyed three movies in the Thin Man series starting 1934, I don’t have to mention Bond, but I do, and even Sergio Leone did his Dollars trilogy). Now, taking the [...]

Posted on August 1st, 2010 by MrWiseguy
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Film Gone Nuts

p {text-align:justify;} Must…not…go…full retard!   Well, mental disorder is one of the most reliable material sources for movies. I almost forgot that for a while, until I saw Shutter Island (I like Scorsese and DiCaprio, something tells me that, given a decade or so, it could edge out Scorsese – De Niro). Shutter Island promptly reminded [...]

Posted on March 20th, 2010 by MrWiseguy
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