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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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Cool Videos: The stop-motion creations of FX legend Ray Harryhausen

As just a youngster, even before I saw a Tattooine farmboy oppose the Empire’s oppressive reign, my imagination was sparked by witnessing dinosaurs, skeletons and other astonishing fantastical creatures flicker to life on a big ol’ radiation-emitting TV set. This...
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Transformers: Shia says he’s done, Michael Bay recycles footage

After thrice being caught up in the calamitous crunching conflict of computer-rendered metal bipeds, Shia LaBeouf is saying “No” to more saying “No no no no” in the TRANSFORMERS series. “I’m sure they’ll make more of them, it’s still a...
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Carter Beats the Devil, WB hopes Johnny Depp will help

In the years since Glen David Gold’s book hit bestseller status, a movie adaptation of CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL has been locked in a vault without a handy escape hatch. Now Warner Bros. is finally pushing the illusionist’s tale into...
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Thor star Chris Hemsworth may hunt bad guys in Shadow Runner

Expect all eight feet (estimated) of THOR star Chris Hemsworth to be a major box office presence in the immediate future. Once he finishes helping THE AVENGERS assemble as the Thunder God, he’ll assist a famous fairy tale gal in...
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