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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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What happens when the Star Wars opening crawl reaches Earth

Posted 17 years ago

It’s possible you’ve watched STAR WARS more times than you can count, but have you ever wondered where the text from the prologue is headed as it drifts into the cosmos? If you didn’t, someone else has. As YouTuber ‘billywarp1‘...

Joe Johnston talks a bit more about Captain America

Posted 17 years ago

CAPTAIN AMERICA (I’m still hoping they drop that goofy THE FIRST AVENGER subtitle) arrives next summer just a few weeks after THOR. And while the Thunder God has a full cast and is already rolling before cameras, it seems like...

Sam Raimi’s next? The Shadow knows. Maybe.

Posted 17 years ago

Sam Raimi may have left one comic character behind. Did he trade spinning webs for sidearms and a scarlet scarf? For a few years now, Raimi has held the rights and been attached as producer on another big-screen adaptation of...

Pierre Morel discusses his 3D plans for Dune

Posted 17 years ago

Although director Pierre Morel is known for hard action (DISTRICT 13, TAKEN), he’s got big ideas for his adaptation of the huge sci-fi classic DUNE. Big enough that it might need an extra dimension. “I’d love it to be 3D,...

The Movie Title Stills Collection

Posted 17 years ago

You might not think too much of that fleeting moment when a film’s title first appears, but it takes on a different essence when viewed along with dozens of others. Web designer Christian Annyas has been capturing these brief title...

Mad Max Fury Road gets several new wasteland inhabitants

Posted 17 years ago

George Miller’s FURY ROAD (formerly/perhaps still known as MAD MAX: FURY ROAD) is starting to pick up speed, and collecting cast members in the cow-catcher on the front of whatever piecemeal wasteland conveyance carries the bleak future’s survivors. Nicholas Hoult,...

Avatar is officially the highest grossing film EVAR

Posted 17 years ago

After steamrolling the competition since its release, Jim Cameron’s big blue epic AVATAR has officially taken the box office crown away from… Jim Cameron. TITANIC just plowed into one of those floating moon-mountains and sunk to number 2 on the...

Michael Bay gives Transformers 3 update, helps Haiti

Posted 17 years ago

Over at his official blog, mayhem maestro Michael Bay gives a brief update on the progress of TRANSFORMERS 3: EXPLODO GONZO ROBOGASM. “Busy scouting – Chicago, Detroit, and Washington D.C. for Transformers last week. Things are going well. The script...

Sam Jackson has no idea what Nick Fury is up to

Posted 17 years ago

After we learned last year that Marvel made a deal with Samuel L. Jackson to appear as S.H.I.E.L.D. honcho Nick Fury in as many as nine of their superhero movies, the assumption was that he would show up in each...

Green Lantern will apparently spend a lot of time off-planet

Posted 17 years ago

When Ryan Reynolds slips on the super jewelry in GREEN LANTERN, it sounds like he’s kissing terra firma goodbye. At least for the majority of his feature debut. Director Martin Campbell is out promoting Mel Gibson’s revenge return EDGE OF...

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