Classify this under “wow”. Superlative, superb and outstanding. Bitchin’ even. If you’ve broken all of your fingers in an industrial accident, please find the will to live and whatever remaining motor coordination to click over to Film Experience Blog where Nathaniel is running a wonderful interview with Max Von Sydow in support of the veteran [...]

Today the super-spectacular Film Experience Blog is hosting an Action Heroine blog-a-thon, which should be immediately visited and read and digested and commented upon and ejected throughout the bloguverse like so many bullet casings from Sarah Connor’s automatic rifle.
I thought I’d use the opportunity to bring back Womb to Tomb – and to point out [...]

There’s news today that French filmmaker Luc Besson will be retiring from directing following the release of his 10th feature Arthur et les Minimoys on December 13th.
This is unfortunate news to anyone who’s a fan of Besson’s great action films The Professional and The Fifth Element (all snarkiness regarding Ms. Jovovich notwithstanding), but as we [...]

So why all the hubbub about there being no good news about strong women in Hollywood? Why, here the week is barely half-over and we’ve already learned some interesting bits of Barbra Streisand’s past and also that Nicole Kidman doesn’t have to come up with her own movie character; she can just mimic one that’s [...]