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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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Short film The Raven gets a studio and maybe Mark Wahlberg

Posted 16 years ago

Seems like everyone who recently put together a quality short film has caught the eye of someone in Hollywood and got a sweet deal. The sci-fi short THE RAVEN sounds like the latest success story — Latino Review says the...

Conan grimaces and rides in some new pics from the movie

Posted 16 years ago

One word instantly came to mind when I first saw that picture above: Dio. I don’t know how much of Marcus Nispel’s CONAN will resemble a heavy metal album cover, but I think I need to see it in motion...

Zoe Saldana and Kate Bosworth are a couple of idiots

Posted 16 years ago

Zoe Saldana and Kate Bosworth. Sexy… but not too bright. Greg Grunberg and Janeane Garofalo help prove it. Just… watch. Idiots with Zoe Saldana & Kate Bosworth from Zoe Saldana

Cool Videos: Ferris Bueller as Fight Club

Posted 16 years ago

You may have heard the theory about John Hughes’ beloved 80s comedy FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF positing that the handsome young charmer of the title is, in fact, merely a figment of Cameron’s imagination. Ferris Bueller is Tyler Durden? Watch...

Ben Affleck steals hearts and dollars in the trailer for The Town

Posted 16 years ago

After his excellent directing debut GONE BABY GONE, I’ve been looking forward to seeing what else Ben Affleck can do behind the camera. And his second feature THE TOWN certainly seems more ambitious, with the Boston boy coming back to...

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows shows signs of life

Posted 16 years ago

It’s been almost three years since we first heard that Johnny Depp would play self-loathing yet sympathetic bloodsucker Barnabas Collins in a big-screen version of the cult ’60s shock-soap DARK SHADOWS, directed by Tim Burton. Those guys have obviously been...

Cool Videos: Stormtroopers storm the subway in NYC

Posted 16 years ago

Here’s something you don’t see every day. Not even in New York. The gang at Improv Everywhere put on some high-quality STAR WARS outfits and hit the tunnels, and the results are below. In their words: “For our latest mission,...

Thomas Jane and Jeremy Piven are melting. Meltiiinnggg!

Posted 16 years ago

Filmmaker Mark Pellington must have an HBO subscription. The director has invited “Hung” man-whore Thomas Jane and “Entourage” über-agent Jeremy Piven to join his ensemble thriller I MELT WITH YOU, described as following “the interconnected lives of four men.” Unless...

Star Wars breakfast cereal boxes: Han ate first

Posted 16 years ago

If you grew up loving STAR WARS and chowing down breakfast cereal that was more interested in colors, shapes, headache-inducing sweetness and cool box art than actual nutritional value, you might get a kick out of these. Unfortunately, they’re not...

We’re still talking about Peter Jackson doing The Hobbit

Posted 16 years ago

We’ve been hearing that butt scuttling around for weeks, but the rumor is apparently still circulating that Peter Jackson has agreed to sit in the recently vacated director’s chair for THE HOBBIT movies. Don’t get too excited just yet —...

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