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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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Everyone loves Navy SEALs, including Taylor Kitsch and director Peter Berg

Posted 15 years ago

Before the Navy SEALs’ widely reported and rightfully praised successes snapping sniper shots through Somali pirates and putting holes in Osama Bin Laden, most people were probably more familiar with them from novels, videogames and reruns of certain Charlie Sheen...

Ride the lightning with Raiden in new Mortal Kombat Legacy episode

Posted 15 years ago

So far in the live-action re-imagining of the MORTAL KOMBAT videogames, we’ve seen some of the major combatants from the series like Jax, Stryker, Kano, Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage, and the last two weeks have brought us Baraka and...

Armie Hammer will be the Lone Ranger to Johnny Depp’s Tonto

Posted 15 years ago

After pondering actors like George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling, THE LONE RANGER has grabbed new “It Guy” Armie Hammer to climb into the saddle as the titular Old West hero. As previously rumored, the SOCIAL NETWORK Winklevoss(es) has...

We’re still being haunted by The Amityville Horror

Posted 15 years ago

It’s the worst fixer-upper on the block, but for some reason everyone wants to keep going back there. The Weinsteins braved bleeding walls to find some footage, which they’ll release as (naturally) THE AMITYVILLE HORROR: THE LOST TAPES. The Weinsteins’...

JoBlo.com previews this week’s new releases: May 20, 2011

Posted 15 years ago

At JoBlo.com, we feel it’s our duty to keep you informed and satisfied. You want to know what your big choices are at the theater each weekend, and we’re happy to reach out and give you the full release. PIRATES...

Tim Burton isn’t feeling Maleficent after all

Posted 15 years ago

It’s been over a year since ALICE IN WONDERLAND made a billion dollars (literally) and director Tim Burton started working on another fairy tale movie, the SLEEPING BEAUTY spinoff MALEFICENT. But the popular Disney villainess will need a new director,...

The Dark Tower might still be coming, but it will be smaller

Posted 15 years ago

Last week, it looked like Blaine the Mono left the station for good when Universal cut the power on its ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s THE DARK TOWER books. The studio may have put the brakes on pre-production, but that...

Update: Thor star Chris Hemsworth, from Thunder God to Snow White’s Huntsman

Posted 15 years ago

UPDATE: Deadline says Hemsworth has accepted the Huntsman part, which will probably need some tweaking to fit the Aussie’s age. May 2, 2011: Snow White’s mentor seems to be getting younger and younger. After Johnny Depp opted out, Universal started...

Alex Pettyfer is Channing Tatum in Steven Soderbergh’s movie about Channing Tatum’s stripper days

Posted 15 years ago

Although I kinda wish Hollywood would stop trying to convince me Alex Pettyfer is an actor I should care about (he isn’t, and I don’t), when a filmmaker like Steven Soderbergh puts him in a movie, guess I gotta tough...

The official synopsis for Pixar’s Monsters Inc. sequel Monsters University

Posted 15 years ago

We’re getting a prequel to Pixar’s endlessly delightful MONSTERS, INC. Granted, we’re getting it later than we initially expected — Mike and Sulley got kicked from the November 2012 release date that was first announced, all the way back to...

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