‘City Dragon’: This Indie Drama Doesn’t Know It’s a Kung-Fu Video Game

As I roll into another year as a 1-900-HOTDOG columnist, I’m starting to notice that the bulk of my accepted pitches are the DVDs or even VHS tapes that I bought as bootlegs in comic book stores more than half a lifetime ago, sprinkled with the occasional e-book I saved to mock back in the … Read more

Fightin’ Females: The Female Action Star Elimination Battle

Female action hero elimination battle

Another Asylum article, and it’s all about nostalgia, which I’m told is popular among the man-children who populate the internet these days. Kneel before your one true god, retro-pop devotees! KNEEEEEEEL! And it was fun to write. But even better than that is the matchup between the toughest fictional females in pop culture. I’m an … Read more

The Evolution of the Female Action Hero

A gigantic infographic featuring the most devastating warriors of womanhood went up at Asylum. It took me 15 22 28 hours to make and is literally six feet tall. Well-behaved women rarely make history, but they once made movies. From then, it’s been a long, slow climb to today, where Hollywood actually allows women to blow … Read more