Everyone loves a good bad boy – that is, the guy who is the cool, dangerous outsider, but secretly good at heart. Or maybe not so good at heart. Inspired by Angie’s fabulous post this week about the “Bad…
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It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these! But in honor of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and our upcoming Young Adult Appreciation Month, we thought it would be a good time to spark the tradition…
We haven’t had one of these in a while, so we decided to throw one up. Y’know. For Wolverine and all. A few weeks ago, we stumbled across these covers over at Marvel.com. In celebration of Wolverine’s 35th anniversary,…
As a girl that likes to occasionally play video games (I have a gamecube, an OG Xbox, a 360, and a Wii), sometimes I just want to kick back with a badass female character. Preferably a character that doesn’t…
Since a big production house horror movie is out this weekend (The Unborn) with another big budget horror flick out later this month (The Uninvited)… For This Week’s Ponderings: Which Scary Little Kid Freaks You Out The Most? Anne…
There I was yesterday, minding my own business at work when out of their own accord my sneaky little fingers (bad, bad fingers) decided to open Internet Explorer and go the website of The Best Movie Magazine in the…
In keeping with the holiday spirit (and since I’m in the mood for boxing with the Pavlik-Hopkins fight tonight), for this week’s ponderings… Which classic monster would win in a Monster Mash Style Bar Brawl? Dracula Real Name: Count…
For this week’s ponderings: What’s your favorite spontaneous-break-into-song-and/or-dance number? Pulp Fiction–“The Dance” Saturday Night Fever – More Than a Woman Dirty Dancing – You know. The final dance. With the lift. Flashdance – Maniac Breakin’ – The final Battle…
For this week’s ponderings: What’s the best moment of emotional personal triumph (of the pump your fist in the air variety) in a movie? The Karate Kid – Daniel-san single-handedly kicks the asses of all the mother f*ckers in…
Since we have recently polled for our favorite badass men (in movies), for this week’s ponderings: Which badass chick is your favorite? The Return of the King, Eowyn – “I am no man.” Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sarah Connor…
Since we’ve already kinda covered favorite episodes, our poll for the week will be a little more specific– What’s your favorite X-Files moment? “I could smell you coming Clarisse” (or, incidentally, “C’mere you big bald beautiful man”) – The…
To end the weekend, we decided it would be rather fitting to have a Best of Batman Poll. Since the Dark Knight has been translated successfully to the screen, we give you the following two questions: Who is your…
For this week’s ponderings: Which badass dude is your favorite? Fight Club, Tyler Durden – “The first rule about fight club is you do not talk about fight club.” Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle – “You talkin’ to me? You…
For this week’s ponderings: Who is the best sidekick? Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings – What didn’t he do for Frodo? Robin, Batman and Robin – Sometimes a girl, sometimes a dude, but always there for the…
For this week’s ponderings: What’s your favorite TV show intro? The X-Files Friends Battlestar Galactica (Remake) LOST X-Men (the Animated Series) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Office (US version) Buffy the Vampire Slayer Beverly Hills 90210 Thundercats Firefly Transformers…
For this week’s ponderings: What’s your favorite ’80s teen/Brat Pack movie? Pretty In Pink – Duckie, BLAINE, and Andie strut their stuff in this Hughes classic Some Kind of Wonderful – Your tomboyish drum playing best friend? Or the…
This week’s ponderings: What is your favorite ’80s horror flick? The Howling – Probably one of (if not THE) greatest werewolf movie ever Prince of Darkness – John Carpenter’s answer to particle physics and theology; TACHYONS! Re-Animator – Franken-zombies!…
In honor of Western Week, this week’s ponderings: What is your favorite Western movie? A Fistful of Dollars – Remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Sergio Leone’s film stars none other than Clint Eastwood. For A Few Dollars More –…
For this week’s ponderings: What is your favorite ’80s Romance/Comedy movie? Heathers – 3 High school bullies, all named Heather, get what they deserve in this very dark comedy. Big – What if you could grow up overnight? Tom…
For this week’s ponderings: What is your favorite ’80s Action/Adventure/Fantasy Movie? (Broad categorization, yes. But necessary since there are so many wonderful ones!) The Goonies – The quintessential adventure movie. Everyone fantacized about finding One Eyed Willies treasure after…
This week’s question: Which villain do you love to hate? The Joker – Archenemy of Batman. A violent sociopath and a trickster. Agent Smith – an agent of the Matrix, out to get Neo. Darth Vader – One of…
This weekend’s question: Which heroine would you root for in a bar brawl? Anita Blake – Necromancer, vampire slayer with a bad attitude and a big gun Mercy Thompson – Mechanic and coyote shapeshifter Joanne Baldwin – Weather Warden,…
Even though it might be a bit cold outside and still technically is winter, we wanted brighten up with a look to warmer times ahead. We are stoked for the bevvy of superhero movies coming out this year in…
Since things are a bit slower on the weekends, we’ve decided to add in the cool new poll feature to the Book Smugglers. For our first random, nonsensical poll, we ask: Which main man would you rather be stuck…