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Favorite Movies: Aliens, Jaws, Inglourious Basterds, the Mad Max movies except the kid read more parts of Thunderdome, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starship Troopers, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, They Live, Pandorum, The Warriors, Darkman, The Thing, The Untouchables, a good percentage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, B-movies, Westerns

Likes: Mass Effect, ginger, the 1960s Batman TV show, diversity, Fallout, non-iron read more shirts, Angela Bassett, comics, funk, making and/or consuming satisfying meals, xenomorphs, the Elric saga, weird art, volume, She-Hulk, freeze-frame credits, my goofy cats, green things, transdimensional travel, vindication

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Weekend Box-Office: March 16-18, 2012

Everybody jumps for 21 Jump Street! Updates of 80s material don’t always turn out for the best (witness the recent $25M summer opening for THE A-TEAM movie), and swapping out Johnny Depp with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum for a...
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Weekend Box-Office: March 9-11, 2012

Sorry Mr. Carter, the Lorax still has it! An orange creature held more appeal than a red planet this weekend as Dr. Seuss’ tree-lover THE LORAX took the top prize with $39.1 million, holding Disney’s colossal sci-fi epic JOHN CARTER...
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Weekend Box-Office: March 2-4, 2012

Lotsa Love for the Lorax! There was clearly a lot of anticipation for another of Dr. Seuss’ colorful children’s classics to come alive (or the 3D computer-generated approximation of life). THE LORAX spoke for the Truffula trees and a whole...
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Weekend Box-Office: February 24-26, 2012

Act of Valor is #1! Navy SEALs! USA! USA! USA! This weekend some of America’s finest soldiers silently slipped out of the water and knifed evil in the brainstem and popped off a few headshots, all while liberating some dough...
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Weekend Box-Office: February 17-19, 2012

Safe House locks out Ghost Rider! As GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE burned rubber (and a head, and urine, and some dudes, and pretty much everything else) at theaters this weekend, last week’s leaders were busy switching places at the...
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