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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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Rev up the remake machine: Lethal Weapon, The Wild Bunch, Westworld

Posted 16 years ago

“You through?” “I haven’t even started yet.” And neither has the remake train. Might as well embrace the fact that some of your favorite movies will invariably get repackaged with a new hook, a new setting and/or new faces. According...

Cool Videos: Quadruple Zooey Deschanel in new She & Him music vid

Posted 16 years ago

Got a thing for adorable actress/singer Zooey Deschanel? Then you’re in luck times 4 thanks to the whimsically retro music video for She & Him’s new bubblegum tune “Don’t Look Back”. It’s totally boss, daddy-o. If you see a cool...

X marks the teaser poster for X-Men: First Class

Posted 16 years ago

Well. After that costume lineup pic that looked like it might be for a relaunch of the “Mutant X” TV series, those new casual snaps from X-MEN: FIRST CLASS were a bit of a relief, huh? At least if you’re...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies needs a new director, again – Mike White exits

Posted 16 years ago

Will Elizabeth Bennet ever get a chance to hack the heads off the brain-craving undead? Once again, the adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s hit parody book PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES needs someone to wrangle the rotters, as director Mike White...

Oscar winner Steve Zaillian tackles time-jumping bandage-man for Dreamworks’ remake of Timecrimes

Posted 16 years ago

Nacho Vigalondo’s Spanish-language thriller TIMECRIMES is a fascinating little time-twister about an average guy trying to unravel a mystery involving a beautiful naked woman and a pink-bandaged stranger. It’s a reasonably small-scale sci-fi film, but the American remake will probably...

Cool Videos: Cliche collection “Now if you’ll excuse me”

Posted 16 years ago

I have to admit, it’s weirdly comforting to know that barrel of movie clichés is seemingly bottomless. So to go along with “Blah, Blah, Blah,” “You Look Like Shit,” “Get Out of There!” and so many others, here’s the latest...

Primer director Shane Carruth helps with time travel on Rian Johnson’s Looper

Posted 16 years ago

Filmmaker Rian Johnson (BRICK, BROTHERS BLOOM) is at work on his latest project LOOPER, a trippy time-travel story about present-day “cleaners” who are delivered criminals from a syndicate in the future to dispose of the bodies so the “evidence” never...

Redder? A sequel to Bruce Willis action movie Red is in the works

Posted 16 years ago

The Bruce Willis action-comedy RED turned out to be a minor hit thanks to global box office figures — enough to make Summit sufficiently satisfied to get a sequel going. The movie even got a perplexing nomination for a Golden...

The RZA’s kung fu flick The Man with the Iron Fists is rolling with help from Eli Roth

Posted 16 years ago

That’s The RZA with Eli Roth on the set of THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS, the rapper-actor-writer-director’s old-school kung fu flick now underway in China. The pic was snapped by actor Daniel Wu, a Hong Kong superstar who filmed...

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