Ben Barna

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Favorite Movies: Se7en, Fargo, Unbreakable, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump, Batman, Terminator read more 2, Requiem for a Dream, Kickboxer, Vertigo, The Departed, Demolition Man, The Matrix, The Maltese Falcon, Saving Private Ryan, There's Something About Mary, Groundhog Day, La Dolce Vita

Likes: Spying on crushes online, melted cheese, gravy, removing plaque, smelling wet read more skin, giving tickles, the cosmos, trying to be a hipster, the ending of Lost Season 3, costanza, blizzarts monday, tokyo wednesday, green room saturday, chess in the park, pre-drinking, wall blasting, thongs, the scene, secret shows, buffets and just generally vibing

McQuarrie’s Experiment

Posted 19 years ago

In 1971 a group of researchers at Stanford University conducted an experiment about the human responses to captivity, where undergraduate volunteers filled the roles of guards and prisoners in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building....

The Dark Knight logo!

Posted 19 years ago

I remember the rush of excitement and thank-god-they’re-finally-doing-it-right relief I felt when I first saw the teaser site for BATMAN BEGINS, complete with the re-vamped Batman logo. It was dark, gritty, bold, industrial and was perfect at capturing the attitude...

Knocked the f*ck up

Posted 19 years ago

When a good R-rated comedy gets released, their PG-13 trailers never do them any justice, which is why so many people were shocked at how dirty THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN was. A couple of weeks ago I posted a link the...

Smoking gets rated

Posted 19 years ago

It’s not a full-on smoking ban for movies, but it’s a start. Alongside ‘strong language’, ‘nudity’ ‘violence’ and ‘drug use’, you can now add ‘pervasive smoking’ as a reason you won’t be able to bring your 10-year-old nephew to see...

Sicko poster art

Posted 19 years ago

Michael Moore may easily be the most unattractive guy ever whose face has been used to sell a movie. Okay, Freddy Krueger might have him barely beat in this category, but that doesn’t count because he was disfigured. To prove...

Wii are Spielberg

Posted 19 years ago

Steven Spielberg, unsatisfied at being the supreme overload of just the movie world, has decided to conquer an even more profitable industry: pornography. Jurassic Pork will be released–ok, jokes over. The actual billion dollar industry in question is the video...

Braff plays in Meadow

Posted 19 years ago

Zach Braff is hot these days, and not hot as in hanging out in his sauna hot, or bangs perfectly framing his forehead hot, but hot as in people like him and he can do just about anything he wants,...

Levy overachieves

Posted 19 years ago

Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to the Alexandra Robbins’ nonfiction book THE OVERACHIEVERS, for Shawn Levy (NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM) to produce and possibly direct. The book chronicles high schoolers in Bethesda, Maryland as they strive and struggle to...

Is Cuban our savior?

Posted 19 years ago

Mark Cuban must still be reeling from the shame of his beloved Dallas Mavericks’ elimination in the first round of the NBA playoffs at the hands of the Golden State Warriors, so it looks like he’s decided to take his...

Valkyrie script review

Posted 19 years ago

The gents over at Filmick.com have posted a script review of Bryan Singer’s upcoming historical drama VALKYRIE, starring Tom Cruise, in what will likely be a breakout role. The review is a favourable one and based on the script alone,...

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Every RoboCop Movie Ranked

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RoboCop ranked from worst to best, with all four movies revisited to see which entries still deliver and which ones miss the mark.

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Awesome Art’s Tribute to The Lord Of The Rings

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Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have wanted...