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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

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And now Cherry 2000 might get a remake

Posted 15 years ago

With so many of the well-known movies and properties getting rebooted on the big screen, it must be time to sift through the VHS stacks looking for something else to remake. How else do you explain the possibility of an...

A sequel to Rounders could still possibly happen

Posted 15 years ago

The whole poker craze doesn’t seem quite the ubiquitous phenomenon it was just a couple of years ago, but that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last movie centered on the game/hobby/addiction. At the recent Produced By conference, Harvey Weinstein cited...

Aliens: Colonial Marines and Star Trek videogames are on the way

Posted 15 years ago

Stop yer grinnin’ and drop yer linen. It’s been a quarter-century since James Cameron sent space jarheads to contend with the xenomorph menace, and now current game console owners will (finally) get to join a squad in ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES....

Idris Elba might battle giant monsters in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim

Posted 15 years ago

Many of us who’ve seen Idris Elba as a supporting player in stuff like ROCKnROLLA, THOR, AMERICAN GANGSTER and (of course) HBO’s “The Wire” have wondered when we’d get to see him do something much bigger. Things don’t get much...

Cool Videos: George Lucas Strikes Back

Posted 15 years ago

Ah, so now the quality of the STAR WARS prequels makes sense. As demonstrated in GEORGE LUCAS STRIKES BACK, the filmmaker was actually absent during the prequel production, and (like many who suffered Jar Jar and “Annie” and the explanation...

Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper know The Words

Posted 15 years ago

Because he’s apparently the new James Franco, actor Bradley Cooper will star in yet another new project, a thriller called THE WORDS. Cooper will wisely surround himself with sexy skinny gals Olivia Wilde and Zoe Saldana in the movie, about...

Jessica Alba has internal and external child in pics and poster for Spy Kids 4

Posted 15 years ago

I’m not entirely certain how filmmaker Robert Rodriguez squeezed an additional dimension into SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D, but one thing’s for sure: Jessica Alba is in the movie. And pregnant. Then not. Movie magic!...

Bioshock movie could still possibly happen someday, maybe

Posted 15 years ago

Plenty of videogame players certainly would have loved to see the unique world of BIOSHOCK come to life at the local theater. And for a time, it was actually happening. But director (and then producer) Gore Verbinski ultimately faced the...

Johnny Depp will stay in 2D for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows

Posted 15 years ago

Although Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s previous 3D collaboration ALICE IN WONDERLAND pulled in a billion bucks worldwide (and Depp’s own 3D escapade PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES has already plundered over $600 million in global box office),...

Ninja clash: Scorpion vs. Sub Zero in the latest Mortal Kombat Legacy episodes

Posted 15 years ago

Videogame fans waiting to see masked supernatural badasses Scorpion and Sub Zero duke it out in the MORTAL KOMBAT: LEGACY webseries finally get their chance, complete with shattered humans and a spear hand (“Get over here!”). Both parts of their...

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