JK Rowling's Harry Potter series is so ridiculously popular that there has been a host of parodies which have poked fun at Ron, Harry and Hermione and their various antics….

A villain is often the best character in a movie. They get the best lines. They get to do crazy or evil things that make audiences love-to-hate them. An expertly…

It is rather lame that a computer virus can be uploaded to destroy this planet conquering vessel. Still, you have to admire the sheer size of the mothership from “Independence…

Sequels are rarely equal to the original movie that spawned them. There are a few exceptions. "The Godfather Part II," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "The Empire Strikes Back," and "Aliens"…

Sometimes horror fans make the mistake of craving only the cutting edge of horror. The rationale might be that as movies get more and more "extreme" they can only get…

Alphaville" Jean-Luc Godard never made a conventional movie, so it would be silly to expect his science fiction film "Alphaville" to be a typical entry in the genre. The "future"…

War is hell. But sometimes even worse than open combat is being captured by the enemy and forced to live in a POW camp, waiting out the war in between…

  Korea is the land of noodles, gold farming,  and Kim Jong-Il, well up until a few months ago anyway, but being on the precipice of nuclear annihilation is a scary…

Is there anything more quintessentially masculine than cowboys? We submit that there is not. Once upon a time, Hollywood was made up of almost nothing but cowboys and Western flicks….

South Korea, for being such a small country geographically, is awfully big on action movies. Their movies have a distinct style to them, setting them apart from pretty much every…

ThunderCats" He's a withered old mummy, who also calls upon ancient power in order to become an ultra-powerful bad guy. His seemingly never-ending war with Lion-O and the ThunderCats hinged…

Braveheart" When people think about Scottish movies, they almost always think about "Braveheart." At least, most Americans do and for good reason. This sweeping epic, starring the insane-in-the-membrane Mel Gibson,…

British people play bad guys in Hollywood movies all the time. Maybe it's because of the Revolutionary War, or maybe it's because their delightfully condescending delivery makes them so detestable….

A good butler is invaluable, worth far more than the salary he earns. A butler can provide guidance, advice, not to mention the fact that he can wash your unmentionables…

Every good bad guy needs a good henchman. You know, someone to do his evil bidding while he enjoys the benefits of being totally evil. But good help can be…

Covert spies normally have a habit of, well, dying. Their profession is fraught with dangerous activities like trying to kill other, more dangerous individuals who are equipped with various weapons…

Over the last few decades super hero movies have become all the rage. Movie executives have looked to resurrect several long running franchises like "X-Men", "Spiderman" and "The Hulk" each…

Leatherface    "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is one of the scariest films of all time. That's at least a little bit thanks to its most famous villain: Leatherface, proud member…

Probably the definitive movie about life in prison, "Cool Hand Luke" is one of the greatest movies ever made. Paul Newman's titular prisoner is the kind of guy Hollywood loved…

Assassination is a dangerous job. You're putting yourself out there, in the line of fire, with huge risks of both death and capture. But somebody's gotta do it, right? Here…

TV movies are not known for being high-quality productions. Often, the phrase is used as an insult – "it's no better than a TV movie." But true movie fans know…

This show occupies a high seat on the Nerd TV Olympus. The stoic and eccentric Jamie Hyneman and the goofy and eccentric Adam Savage host this show that essentially started…

There are two types of foreign villains when it comes to American movies. You've got your British villains, because of the Revolutionary War, and you've got your Russian villains, because…

Californication" with Charlie Runkle. "Californication", starring David Duchovny as problematic novelist Hank Moody and Evan Handler as Charlie Runkle, is off the sexual grid. Charlie, Hank's best friend and agent,…

Why is it that the unsung heroes in many movies are the bartenders? Some of the coolest movie characters are supplying all the drinks for the supposedly cooler characters. It's…

Eventually there comes a time in everyone’s television watching life where you will run out of shows in your native language. You could go hit up a foreign language course…

Brush up on the universality of relationships while working on your ability to spot grammar mistakes by drunken closed caption makers by taking on some foreign cinema. When it comes…