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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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Bacon tastes Super

Posted 17 years ago

I’ve been looking forward to James Gunn following his wonderfully sticky SLITHER, and it sounds like he’s mixing that movie’s messy sensibilities with the kind of R-rated superhero satire he came up with in THE SPECIALS. His currently filming mega-violent...

RIP: Dan O’Bannon

Posted 17 years ago

A genre great has left us. Dan O’Bannon has died at the age of 63. O’Bannon might not be a household name like Cameron or Spielberg, but he’s one of the minds behind material that any self-respecting fanboy or fangirl...

Kick-Ass 2 talk

Posted 17 years ago

Judging from the early response, comic writer Mark Millar has every right to be planning a sequel to KICK-ASS. While discussing the movie tie-in book with CBR, Millar mentions that a comic follow-up is already in the cards, and with...

Cameron on T4

Posted 17 years ago

Remember back when director McG claimed that TERMINATOR-creator James Cameron had given his “blessing” on TERMINATOR SALVATION? That may not have actually been true, but Cameron did finally get around to seeing the movie that further diluted the fantastic cyborg...

X-Men prequel writer

Posted 17 years ago

After rumors circulated for a while indicating such, director Bryan Singer himself confirmed he’d be returning to Marvel’s mutants on the prequel X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. Unsurprisingly, Singer and the fanboys’ fave studio Fox will likely jettison everything done by the...

Persia BTS Jake clip

Posted 17 years ago

If you were worried that PRINCE OF PERSIA star Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t sufficiently resemble the videogame character, or wouldn’t look convincing leaping across rooftops and engaging in swordplay and becoming sand, or simply didn’t have ripped enough abs, this new...

Eisner’s Brood remake?

Posted 17 years ago

When we told you earlier that Carl Rinsch was stepping in to replace Breck Eisner (SAHARA) on the remake of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, one thing was overlooked: Where’s Eisner going? Turns out he’s bouncing from one remake...

Damn Nation writers

Posted 17 years ago

A movie based on the Dark Horse high-concept horror comic DAMN NATION has been in the works for several years, but it should gather substantial steam now that the vampire genre has sunk its fangs into bank accounts and is...

O. Russell vs Zombies

Posted 17 years ago

A mash-up of a Jane Austen literary classic and the munching undead is odd enough… so why not add an unorthodox auteur? According to Pajiba, purportedly impulsive director David O. Russell (THREE KINGS, I ♥ HUCKABEES) is raising the deceased...

Tron game trailer

Posted 17 years ago

With rare exceptions, videogames based on movie properties tend to be weak or downright tragic. But not many movies are as perfectly suited for the transition as TRON. Whe the movie’s sequel TRON: LEGACY arrives a year from now, it...

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