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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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Battleship spoilers?

Posted 17 years ago

WARNING: As the headline implies, there are potential and substantial spoilers below. When we first heard that Universal was making a movie based on the classic game BATTLESHIP, it led to some head-scratching. How did they figure out a way...

The Road: the game

Posted 17 years ago

If you watched the trailer for THE ROAD and thought it would be neat to wander the bleak post-apocalyptic American hellscape in search of food and shelter, here’s your virtual opportunity! In one of the strangest movie tie-ins, THE ROAD...

The Box prob solved

Posted 17 years ago

Did you see the offer proposed in Richard Kelly’s new thriller THE BOX and sort of wonder what was the big dilemma? While that certainly says something about your moral fiber, at least you weren’t the only one. Witness “The...

Cooper in Dark Fields

Posted 17 years ago

A-Team and A-list member Bradley Cooper knows how to spread himself around — romcoms, Vegas raunch, big action and a little horror. Now the consistently scruffy actor is dipping into pharmaceutical weirdness with DARK FIELDS, a thriller from director Neil...

Kick-Ass posters

Posted 17 years ago

It’s certainly looking like KICK-ASS was a gamble that will pay off. Director Matthew Vaughn (STARDUST, LAYER CAKE) independently financed the movie, based on the high-concept shock book by WANTED comic writer Mark Millar. Massive fan response at Comic Con...

Faris meets Yogi Bear

Posted 17 years ago

Anna Faris might not have another SCARY MOVIE in her future, but it looks like there’s another franchise following her fine form. Faris will be the primary human in Warner Bros.’ live-action/CG-animated YOGI BEAR movie (a la SCOOBY DOO, ALVIN...

Abrams has Micronauts?

Posted 17 years ago

JJ Abrams loves big sci-fi and mysteries, but apparently he also digs little toys. Buried in a Wall Street Journal article about studios scrambling for “toyetic” (sorry, their term) properties to transform (ahem) into movies is this brief statement: J.J....

Taken director’s next

Posted 17 years ago

Is French filmmaker Pierre Morel on his way to becoming one of my favorite action directors? He certainly seems to be barreling down that path. The Besson protege followed his fun futuristic parkour/martial arts flick BANLIEUE 13 (DISTRICT 13) with...

2012 sequel series?

Posted 17 years ago

Roland Emmerich has become quite proficient at blasting away gigantic chunks of the planet, but it turns out he also cares deeply about what happens in the aftermath. Sort of. Well, he’d watch it. On TV. While discussing his latest...

Depp is a Tourist?

Posted 17 years ago

This week on THE TOURIST… Johnny Depp! The talent involved with this tumultuous thriller seem to be taking the title seriously, stopping in for a short stay before moving on to other destinations. First, Tom Cruise exited the project and...

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