Okay, I lied. These aren’t bad action stars but ones that, for one reason or another, manage to step up from the traditional action movie genre and are now in a class above Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport or Steven Seagal in Hard to Kill. (I've already shared my thoughts on Bad Action Heroes and…
I love action movies, good, bad and indifferent. I don’t just watch them; I inhale them, and sometimes the worse they are the more I like them. Usually these strictly B movie action flicks do poorly at the box office. Successful ones earn back the money they cost to make. Under Siege, a Steven Seagal…
I just finished reading The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin—not a cozy, but a historical mystery (which is just as good in my opinion) set in nineteenth-century Russia. It’s the first in a series of a dozen or so mysteries featuring the young police investigator Erast Petrovich Fandorin, five of which have been translated into…
