Dave Davis - JoBlo

Columnist

4,286 Articles Published

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

Possible Spider-Man love interests include Emma Stone and Mia Wasikowska

Posted 16 years ago

While we have our new Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and franchise director (Marc Webb) for the SPIDER-MAN reboot that you all desperately wanted (?), the role of the high school love interest currently has a blank photo in the yearbook....

Director Guillermo del Toro talks monsters on The Colbert Report

Posted 16 years ago

Wednesday had some pretty good late-night viewing for movie fans — not only did Joaquin Phoenix appear on David Letterman to come clean about his I’M STILL HERE antics, but happy horror maestro Guillermo del Toro sat down at the...

Kate Beckinsale is returning to fangs and tight leather for another Underworld

Posted 16 years ago

If you were hoping stunner Kate Beckinsale would again slip into form-fitting combat garb to kick, punch, stab and shoot more werewolves and vampires, wish fulfilled! Beckinsale is coming back for a fourth UNDERWORLD movie, reprising the role of vicious...

Is a Goodfellas series coming to a TV near you?

Posted 16 years ago

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” Of course Henry Hill wanted to be a gangster — they never seem to go out of style. HBO’s series “Boardwalk Empire” instantly got picked up...

Matt Damon goes all Na’vi on the new poster for Clint Eastwood’s supernatural drama Hereafter

Posted 16 years ago

I don’t know how intentional it was to make the poster for HEREAFTER evoke AVATAR — Hell, maybe I’m just imagining it. But it does seem to draw the eye in a Pandoran manner. It also gives kind of a...

Magic and bald villainy abound in the final trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Pt. 1

Posted 16 years ago

It feels like it’s been ages since the last HARRY POTTER movie, but now we’re finally getting… the last HARRY POTTER movie. The first half of it, anyway. By now you probably know the deal with HARRY POTTER AND THE...

Joaquin Phoenix may do a foot comedy and/or Clint Eastwood’s Hoover movie

Posted 16 years ago

Now that he’s apparently finished his Year of Lunacy, unretired actor Joaquin Phoenix is getting back to business. Phoenix may be shaking off the spurious documentary I’M STILL HERE with an intentional comedy called BIG SHOES, described as an “out...

The secret lives of garden statues in the new trailer for Gnomeo & Juliet

Posted 16 years ago

I’m not sure how a Shakespeare classic enacted by animated lawn figures came about, but GNOMEO & JULIET certainly attracted an impressive cast. James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Jason Statham, Michael Caine, Patrick Stewart and Ozzy Osbourne (!!) all lend their...

Another look at Space Battleship Yamato, the Star Blazers movie

Posted 16 years ago

As a wee lad enthralled after seeing STAR WARS (yes, way back in ’77), I was desperate for more epic space battles. The closest I could find at the time was the cartoon series STAR BLAZERS, a dubbed version of...

Cool Videos: Fan-made teaser for CG-animated Half-Life 2 movie

Posted 16 years ago

Not too long ago, we were speculating about the possiblity of a HALF-LIFE movie after the videogame’s creators alluded to the idea of keeping the property out of Hollywood’s hands and making a movie themselves. But while a live-action adaptation...

Load more articles