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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

Likes: Mass Effect, ginger, the 1960s Batman TV show, diversity, Fallout, non-iron read more shirts, Angela Bassett, comics, funk, making and/or consuming satisfying meals, xenomorphs, the Elric saga, weird art, volume, She-Hulk, freeze-frame credits, my goofy cats, green things, transdimensional travel, vindication

Buried posters

Posted 17 years ago

Before Ryan Reynolds saves the planet with emerald jewelry in GREEN LANTERN, we’ll see him in a smaller film called BURIED. How small is it? The whole movie takes place in a coffin. The only way it could get smaller...

Brooklyn’s Finest trailer

Posted 17 years ago

For screenwriter Michael C. Martin’s first produced script BROOKLYN’S FINEST, he got quite the casting jackpot. The intertwining tale of Brooklyn cops lured in Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes (!!), not to mention more familiar faces...

Hardy talks Mad Max

Posted 17 years ago

Despite what the trade announcements claimed about the casting, there seems to be some question as to precisely who Tom Hardy (BRONSON, ROCKnROLLA) will be playing in George Miller’s MAD MAX sequel FURY ROAD. In fact, even Hardy doesn’t know....

Duvall for Quixote?

Posted 17 years ago

For years, we’ve heard rumblings that eternally unfortunate filmmaker Terry Gilliam had every intention of resurrecting his epic failure/labor of love THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE. In fact, just a couple of months ago he claimed that he’d found...

44 Inch Chest trailer

Posted 17 years ago

SEXY BEAST writers Louis Melles and David Scinto are back with another Brit gangster movie called 44 INCH CHEST, featuring Ian McShane, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt and Ray Winstone. Now that’s a pile of grizzled Brit. I bet there will...

Summit has Alibi

Posted 17 years ago

Now that Summit has a few extra bucks in their pockets (their NEW MOON is kinda popular, y’know), the company is putting more projects in the pipe. Summit has grabbed the lesser-known Top Cow espionage comic ALIBI for feature treatment,...

New Persia poster

Posted 17 years ago

Next summer’s Bruckheimer-produced videogame adaptation PRINCE OF PERSIA is practically guaranteed to become a blockbuster… but you might not think so if you only went by the promotional material. I don’t know if this new scruffy-Jake poster (via Planeta Disney)...

Warfare 2 guy’s Frost

Posted 17 years ago

Although I think that UNCHARTED 2 is probably the closest I’ve come to feeling like I was playing a movie, the blockbuster MODERN WARFARE 2 is also an undeniably cinematic experience. So it seems like a natural transition for Keith...

Black Hole remake

Posted 17 years ago

A childhood memory I can clearly recall is sneaking out of the inert STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE to see Disney’s THE BLACK HOLE. As a kid obsessed with STAR WARS, it was infinitely more enjoyable than Kirk’s tedium, simply...

More teen Creatures

Posted 17 years ago

Now that the TWILIGHT movies are genuine generators of green, studios are frantically ransacking the young adult section of bookstores looking for a monsterish teen franchise of their own. As Warner Bros. prepares to wave goodbye to Harry Potter, they’re...

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