25 August 2008 8:06 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
By Matt Singer and Alison Willmore
In honor of the late critic Manny Farber's idea of termite art, and of the movie doldrums of late August, this week on the IFC News podcast we pay our respects to our favorite working leads in good-bad films. After all, great acting is one thing, but the ability to yell about getting revenge on the guy who killed your wife while flexing your abs and outrunning a fireball is quite another, and worthy of its own kind of appreciation.
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[Photo: Jason Statham in "Death Race," Universal Pictures, 2008]
Alison Willmore

