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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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The new Star Trek theme park experience isn’t at a theme park

Posted 16 years ago

Pretty soon, NASA won’t be sending any more men into space. But that doesn’t mean you wont’ be able to pay a visit to the final frontier yourself, starting in June. The new STAR TREK LIVE experience in Florida will...

Iron Man 2 interactive trailer reveals supporting character scraps

Posted 16 years ago

One of the most anticipated movies of the year is nearly upon us, but if you want to know a tiny bit more about the secondary humans occupying the IRON MAN 2 neighborhood of the Marvel movie universe, this “interactive”...

Cool Videos: Regen

Posted 16 years ago

This is the sort of work that first inspired this column — a well-made short film accomplished with just a handful of humans (and a whole lot of computer processing, in this case). Director Michael Chaves’ slick CG-packed short REGEN...

Netflix new releases also get delayed by Fox and Universal

Posted 16 years ago

Just a few months ago, Warner Bros. initiated a four-week delay before their new DVD releases would be available via the popular click-rental company Netflix. Now other studios are hoping to slow the bleeding of the DVD business by incorporating...

Carl Erik Rinsch’s short film already kicked off a bidding war

Posted 16 years ago

Just yesterday we talked about “The Gift”, a stunning sci-fi short film from Carl Erik Rinsch, a protege of Ridley and Tony Scott and commercial director for their company (you’ll recall Rinsch was initially attached to helm the ALIEN prequel)....

A-Team and Dinner for Schmucks posters are full of headness

Posted 16 years ago

“Floating head syndrome” has been a theme on movie posters for quite a while. But will cropped facial close-ups be the next trend? These two posters would be an argument for that point. While everyone is probably familiar with THE...

Behind the scenes clip of Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott discussing Robin Hood

Posted 16 years ago

At some point, Ridley Scott’s ROBIN HOOD went from a tale of the famous outlaw redistributing wealth in Sherwood Forest to a medieval epic. How and why? Judging from what Scott, star Russell Crowe and manga-haired producer Brian Grazer have...

Clive Owen is an Intruder for 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Posted 16 years ago

I honestly wasn’t crazy about Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s sequel 28 WEEKS LATER, but I loved his first film INTACTO, about a subculture of people who gamble and trade luck. Fresnadillo’s next project INTRUDERS may not have rage infection or fortune...

Splice director Vincenzo Natali wants to make a Swamp Thing movie

Posted 16 years ago

Now that SPLICE director Vincenzo Natali will have his sci-fi cautionary tale seen by a wide audience thanks to Joel Silver and Warner Bros., he may have more big opportunities than he’s had since CUBE. Silver is planning an update...

Cool Videos: The Gift, by Alien prequel near-director Carl Erik Rinsch

Posted 16 years ago

When word of the ALIEN prequel first came about, Ridley Scott had planned to just produce and have Carl Rinsch, one of his company’s directors, take the reins on the xenomorphic origin. But Fox flinched and said Ridley or GTFO....

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