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I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder. Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.

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With a heavy heart, I want to send my sincere condolences to the family of my brother, Mark Hildreth—aka WCW’s “Van Hammer.” I first met Hammer when I was managing the Fabulous Freebirds. He was a beast of a man—6’4”, 285— he was shredded, I remember Dusty taking one look at him and hiring him on the spot. Hammer was green as grass at the time. Back then, Hammer, @MarcMero (Johnny B. Badd), @RealKevinNash, Scott Hall, Mick Foley, Scotty Levy (@theraveneffect), Erik Watts, and myself— bonded quickly. We were a band of brothers. A lot of time spent together in those early years—inside the ring, on the road, and yeah, plenty of nights in the clubs. I’ve included an old photo in this cluster of me and Stunning @steveaustinBSR at Hammer’s dad’s house. I gave his dad the nickname “Sledgehammer.” As the years went on, like it does, we all went our separate ways. H, like many of the boys, battled addiction. Truth is, I don’t know how he made it through some of those years. But a little over a decade ago, he cleaned himself up and reached out to me. He was working as the Sales Manager for Paradise Exteriors Premium Impact Windows and Doors in Boynton Beach Florida. H was a great salesman. No bullshit he could sell ice to the Eskimos. He still had his struggles here and there, but for the most part, he got a handle on his demons. Over those 10 years, we found our way back and grew close again—especially these past couple of years. We were texting and or talking on a weekly basis. I still don’t know the cause of death. All I know he was doing so well. I really thought, he had made it to the other side. I’m grateful we found our way back into each other lives. I’ll carry those memories with me always my brother. Rest easy, I’ll see you in Valhalla RIP DDP

Be there. I mean it. This Friday. 9pm Eastern/6 Pacific. And have your Walpurgisnacht alcohol ready for WITCHES NIGHT.

シンシアロスロックが中国武術（鷹爪拳、螳螂拳）の優美かつ俊敏な戦術でリチャードノートンの剛拳と激突する！途中から劉徳華も参戦！ #たまーに観たくなる #マジッククリスタル

"A Book of Heroes" (1986) has a plot that is partly inspired by "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963), but more than the plot, it is the cool fight scenes performed by three beautiful women (including the incredibly hot Yang Hui-Shan) that kept me hooked till the end.

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Cesare’s Dark Horse comics series “Dead Mall” is getting a feature film adaptation: • Michael Varrati (“The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula,” “Fangoria Chainsaw Awards”) is set to write the script • Varrati will draw from “original story notes that include previously unseen material” variety.com/2026/film/news…

Behind the scenes me and my team have been working on our next documentary and we are excited to announce it’s on Bloodsport! We have now launched the Kickstarter! If you want to secure your copy on Blu-ray plus get other rewards check out the link! tinyurl.com/358fwtjt

𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟏, 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐝) "Where Does Evil Live, the Head, the Mind or the Flesh?" A Criminal Psychologist Loses his Arm & is One of Three People to get a Transplant from an Executed Serial Killer. One Dies & the Other Two Witness Disturbing Occurrences 😎

Check out the official poster for X-MEN ‘97 Season 2, featuring 16 iconic Marvel characters!

"Michelle Yeoh did all of her own stunts in 'Supercop' (1992), because she threatened to beat me up if I wouldn't let her!" --- Jackie Chan Full Excerpt: "By this time, all of you probably know Michelle Yeoh from 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997), the James Bond film. She resurrected her action career by costarring with me in 'Supercop', my first film with Stanley Tong. Michelle isn't a fighter; she never formally trained in martial arts, beginning her career as a ballet dancer. But one thing you can say for her is that she has the heart of a lioness. She did all of her own stunts in 'Supercop', because she threatened to beat me up if I wouldn't let her! Her most dangerous sequence in the movie was a scene in which she rides a motorcycle up a ramp, into the air, and onto the roof of a moving train. I have to admit that after I saw her do that stunt, I felt like I had something to prove. That's why we added this sequence, in which I jump from the roof of a building to a rope ladder swinging from the bottom of a hovering helicopter. The crooks flying the chopper try to knock me off the ladder by swinging me back and forth through the air and into buildings, moving at high speed above the streets of Malaysia's capital. They don't succeed —lucky for me. And the stunt looks al most as dangerous as it really was —lucky for all you action fans out there." ("I am Jackie Chan", Jackie Chan with Jeff Yang, 1998)

Masahiro Shinoda explains why it was impossible for the Jesuits to impose their religion in Japan: "Interviewer: Is 'Silence' (1971) critical of the very fact of the Catholics coming to Japan and imposing an alien culture on the Japanese? Shinoda: Japan is an island surrounded by the sea. Many cultures from outside have come here. Japan could not refuse them. The sea current itself conveyed these foreigners to Japan’s southern shores. Japan’s culture thus consists of many, many foreign cultures in a mixture. Sometimes it caused us to lose our essential Japanese culture. I’m not even sure sometimes what Japanese culture is. In the sixteenth century Christianity and the gun were introduced into Japan. The introduction of the gun was a traumatic event and had a much deeper impact than did Christianity. The Japanese people were perplexed, but they are a realistic people and they made their choices pragmatically, giving up the metaphysical. We are empiricists, materialists. Interviewer: If I had made that movie, I would have questioned the right of the Jesuit priests to come to Japan and impose their ideas on the Japanese. Shinoda: No, it was impossible for the Jesuits to impose their religion on the Japanese because of the animism believed in by this insular, island people. It was not to be destroyed by so severe a religion as Christianity. Christianity destroyed the Roman gods, but the Japanese gods were protected by the softness of Buddhism. Buddhism is so soft that it was absorbed into the Japanese culture of the time. The Japanese people believed that Buddhism could easily marry with Shinto, and thus Japanese culture is a mixed breed of both religions. Then Christianity came, but by this time the native animism of Shinto and Buddhism were already coexisting in harmony. I think that there was no room for an additional religion. All Eastern religions are in accordance with a belief in the oneness of man and nature, whereas Christianity deals with the relationship between one man and another. When movies, or film culture, were introduced into Japan they were already based on modern Western thought. But Japanese culture influenced the kind of films that would be made here, despite the Western origins of the cinema. I must categorize the films of the world into three distinct types. European films are based upon human psychology, American films upon action and the struggles of human beings, and Japanese films upon circumstance." ('Voices from the Japanese Cinema', Joan Mellen, 1975)

FLAMING BROTHERS (1987) Joe Cheung Source: Eureka Entertainment Blu-ray

The Crow (1994) 🎬

A Better Tomorrow III (1989) Dir. Tsui Hark John Woo on meeting Tsui Hark for the first time after discovering his work on TV. "We met and he was kind of like an artist, you know. He's very artistic - very dark clothed, long, you know, and all black... We talked about movies. And for God's sake, it had been for so many years. He’s the only one that could talk to me about Fellini - oh shit, because nobody talk to me of this. For over 37 years. And because the film circle, the people, they didn't really know those names. I was so happy. And then we have a beer in a bar and then we look outside of Hong Kong Harbor and there was a sunset. The sunset, it was so beautiful. And then we look at the Hong Kong Harbor and then we both swear we have to make Hong Kong movies great."

The Host was released 20 years ago today. Unlike most monster movies that hide the creature, Bong Joon-ho reveals it in full daylight within minutes, shifting the tension from mystery to pure chaos and human reaction.