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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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Lego: the Movie (with a chance of meatballs)

Posted 16 years ago

Franchises like TRANSFORMERS demonstrate the enduring profitability of playthings coming to theaters. The world of Lego has already spilled from the toy aisle into the realm of videogames and other popular franchises (STAR WARS, INDIANA JONES, HARRY POTTER, etc.), and...

Cool Videos: Imperial Walker goes for a walk in AT-AT Day Afternoon

Posted 16 years ago

The first time you saw Imperial Walkers blasting the shit out of the Rebel forces on Hoth in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, you probably thought to yourself, “Dawww, I wish I had a miniature version of one of those for...

Top Gun sequel? You can be my wingman any time

Posted 16 years ago

When your new movies open to shaky box office and less than generous reviews, perhaps it’s time to resuscitate an older, familiar movie and blast it down the runway? That’s possibly in the cards for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and former...

Learn a tiny bit more about Inception from the actors and director

Posted 16 years ago

I’ve been trying to avoid getting too much info about Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi mindjob INCEPTION — no easy task when you write about movies every day, but I keep thinking about how bummed I would have been if I’d know...

Mad Max will be short one hottie as Teresa Palmer drives off of Fury Road

Posted 16 years ago

What’s going on with George Miller’s MAD MAX: FURY ROAD? It was way back in October of last year that we first heard that Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron would star in the sequel, but the production has just been...

Fox goes into space again with Martian Chronicles and a Channing Tatum sci-fi love story

Posted 16 years ago

Since Fox found a bit of success with AVATAR, they’re anxious to head back into the cosmos with more sci-fi projects. The LA Times says that Fox-based producer John Davis (I, ROBOT) has secured the rights to author Ray Bradbury’s...

Stiller and DeNiro have holidays and an erection in the Little Fockers trailer

Posted 16 years ago

If you didn’t get enough Fockers the first two times, the whole Focker family is back once again, this time with more Fockers. Also more Christmas cheer, spurting wounds and penis pills. More laughs? Remains to be seen. The unnecessarily...

Shyamalan brings in Buried writer for the next Night Chronicles

Posted 16 years ago

M. Night Shyamalan is on the precipice of a potential comeback, with THE LAST AIRBENDER set to bend the elements on the big Independence Day weekend. And besides trying to gather people like Bruce Willis for a new movie, he’s...

Sherlock Holmes sequel is searching for a Moriarty

Posted 16 years ago

Mark Strong was a satisfactory villain in SHERLOCK HOLMES, but most people who have a basic familiarity with the famous sleuth were probably wondering when his nemesis Moriarty would step from the shadows. Now that the action-detective’s first case was...

Bruce Willis brings his friends and trigger finger out of retirement in the trailer for Red

Posted 16 years ago

I knew that when Warren Ellis’ comic RED got adapted into a Bruce Willis movie, it would need to have the story fleshed out a bit. The three-issue miniseries was a tight but swift little espionage thriller about a retired...

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