Today, we launch our newest blog, Hero & Heroine Histories to accompany our sister blog, Femmes Fantastique!
Like FF it'll be weekly (perhaps more frequently, as my schedule allows), featuring both new histories and updated entries from our popular series on this blog.
The first entry is 1950s commie-fighter The Avenger.
So, bookmark it or load the RSS, and check it out often.
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Showing posts with label fantastic femmes. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Law & Order: UK...now on Region 1 DVD!
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups.
The police who investigate crime, and the Crown Prosecutors who prosecute the offenders.
These are their stories.
Sound familiar?
It's the opening narration of the most recent version of the long-running Law & Order franchise.
In fact, it's now in it's second season!
But, if you live in the US, you haven't seen it...until now!
It's Law & Order: UK, produced in England.
Creator Dick Wolf is overseeing the whole thing, but the main writer / producer is former TorchWood
Plus, it features several genre performers as regulars, including Jamie Bamber (BattleStar Galactica
Fantastic Femme Freema Agyeman (Dr. Who
(Here's a shot in her "civilian" garb.)
Anyway, I was going thru the Sunday papers (which I pick up after 9pm on Saturday night) and I glanced thru the sale flyers.
The Target Stores flyer usually has a page of new cds and dvds. Sometimes they have exclusives.
They sure did this week...Law & Order:UK for only $26.99!
I went online to target.com and noticed that, after this week, it'll be 39.99, so I'm going to grab it at my local store on Tuesday!
Maybe I'll see you there!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Fantastic Femmes--Vanessa Ferlito
Note: this page has been updated with NEW info HERE!
Best known for her genre work in GrindHouse, 24, and the CSI franchise, Brooklyn-born Vanessa Ferlito has also done comedy (Madea Goes to JailTrivia: though she's Italian-American, Vanessa often plays Hispanic-named or accented characters!
She's worked with fellow Fantastic Femme Rosario Dawson on three films: GrindHouse (She didn't have any scenes together with Rosario), 25th Hour
Genre appearances include...
24
(Claudia Hernandez)
(Arlene aka ButterFly)
(Detective Aiden Burn)
Spider-Man 2
(Louise)
Check out...
Vanessa Ferlito Pictures (FanSite)
Vanessa Ferlito Movies (FanSite)
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Vampirella Resurrected...at Dynamite!
Before Twilight
!
Before True Blood
!
Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer
!
Before Blade
!
There was…Vampirella
!
Dynamite Entertainment (Project SuperPowers
, Green Hornet
) has acquired the Vampirella property from Harris Publications.
Vampirella debuted in 1969 in a black & white magazine titled simply Vampirella.
Initially, she was just the hostess of various horror stories, much like EC's Crypt Keeper or DC's Cain and Abel, but much cuter!
In addition, there was a series of paperback novels
by Ron Goulart, adapting the comics storylines into prose!
There was even a Vampirella feature film
starring Talisa Soto as the Draculonian, now available on dvd.
We wish her a long and prosperous un-life at Dynamite!
Before True Blood
Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Blade
There was…Vampirella
Dynamite Entertainment (Project SuperPowers
Vampirella debuted in 1969 in a black & white magazine titled simply Vampirella.
Initially, she was just the hostess of various horror stories, much like EC's Crypt Keeper or DC's Cain and Abel, but much cuter!
In Vampirella #9, the character received her own strip, with the first tale being (what else?) her origin story!
Vampirella has been around since then in both b/w and color comics form from Warren and then Harris Publications, remaining one of the most popular female and/or vampire characters in comics!In addition, there was a series of paperback novels
There was even a Vampirella feature film
We wish her a long and prosperous un-life at Dynamite!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Welcome to our second blog...Femmes Fantastique!
One of our blog's most popular features has been the ongoing Fantastic Femmes series featuring beautiful women of science fiction and fantasy movies and tv.
It's been so popular that we've decided to do a spin-off blog...Femmes Fantastique!
We'll be posting at Femmes Fantastique at least twice weekly, both with follow-ups to previous entries from this site (like our premiere FF entry, Jessica Alba) with updated credits and links, and new entries we'll cross-post on both blogs, like tomorrow's entry on Liza Lapira.
So bookmark the Femmes Fantastique rss feed, or come visit every week.
There'll aways be something new!
Above is the header pic for the blog, featuring the women of all three Austin Powers
films!
It's been so popular that we've decided to do a spin-off blog...Femmes Fantastique!
We'll be posting at Femmes Fantastique at least twice weekly, both with follow-ups to previous entries from this site (like our premiere FF entry, Jessica Alba) with updated credits and links, and new entries we'll cross-post on both blogs, like tomorrow's entry on Liza Lapira.
So bookmark the Femmes Fantastique rss feed, or come visit every week.
There'll aways be something new!
Above is the header pic for the blog, featuring the women of all three Austin Powers
Monday, March 8, 2010
Fantastic Femmes--Zoe Saldana IS Neytiri Dis'kahan Mo'at'itey
Too bad Fantastic Femme Zoe Saldana wasn't nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Neytiri.
If you just think of it as "digital makeup" rather than animation, it's as award-worthy as any performance in makeup (like John Hurt's performance in The Elephant Man
)!
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Fantastic Femmes PixPost--Halle Berry Redux
We end the month with a PixPost of a previous Fantastic Femme fave...
Got a problem with that?
Didn't think so!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Fantastic Femmes PixPost: Dorothy Dandridge IS Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba
In her only genre role, Dorothy Dandridge
played Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba in 1951's Tarzan's Peril
.
An original story, not based on any of Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories, the film was the third of five movies starring Lex Barker as Tarzan
and it was directed by Byron Haskin, who went on to A-list genre films like 1953's War of the Worlds
.
It was also the first Tarzan film to have scenes shot on location in Africa.
(Previous films used existing stock footage from other movies.)
One of the scenes from the film is recreated in the biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
starring Fantastic Femme Halle Berry as Dorothy playing Melmendi.
Here's a comparison between a scene in the original film and the biopic's version of it.
Melmendi, nor her tribe, the Ashuba, have appeared in any Tarzan story (in any media) since...
Note: technically, this is a Pix Post, but it's also a Hero(ine) History and Fantastic Femme entry!
An original story, not based on any of Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories, the film was the third of five movies starring Lex Barker as Tarzan
It was also the first Tarzan film to have scenes shot on location in Africa.
(Previous films used existing stock footage from other movies.)
One of the scenes from the film is recreated in the biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Here's a comparison between a scene in the original film and the biopic's version of it.
Melmendi, nor her tribe, the Ashuba, have appeared in any Tarzan story (in any media) since...
Note: technically, this is a Pix Post, but it's also a Hero(ine) History and Fantastic Femme entry!
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