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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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This poster is Lying

Posted 17 years ago

British comic Ricky Gervais is certainly a funny fellow, but his next film THE INVENTION OF LYING doesn’t exactly have a poster-friendly premise due to its apparent absence of guns, car chases, scantily clad chicks, and giant robots. So how...

Hornet is now green

Posted 17 years ago

We just recently learned that the release of GREEN HORNET slid from next summer to December 2010, but that delay clearly hasn’t impacted production, as this new statement demonstrates: A classic character of film, television, radio and comic books returns...

Beavis & Butthead live!

Posted 17 years ago

Mike Judge’s limited feature filmography, once criminally abused by studios and now deservedly beloved, almost overshadows his initial claim to fame: Beavis & Butthead. And who could be more appropriate to introduce a clip from Judge’s latest comedy EXTRACT (opening...

Behind Mr. Fox

Posted 17 years ago

Want some hints as to how filmmaker Wes Anderson achieved the intriguing (creepy?) results for his animated tale THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX? This new behind-the-scenes featurette (narrated by Jason Schwartzman) gives some insight into Anderson’s processes, both for making Roald...

Rashida has sex

Posted 17 years ago

It’s sweet to see the career of adorable Rashida Jones thrive after years in some thankless roles (did “Boston Public” help anyone?), with a recent boost from “The Office” and I LOVE YOU, MAN. Now Jones is gonna get down...

Expendables ass-kicked

Posted 17 years ago

If you can’t wait to see Sly Stallone and his macho mercs shoot up the screen in THE EXPENDABLES, guess what? You’re gonna have to wait. Lionsgate has shifted the bullets-and-biceps bonanza from its initial release date of April 23rd,...

Fantastic Four again

Posted 17 years ago

Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! That’s right, true believers: Fox is already rebooting FANTASTIC FOUR! After a pair of big-screen attempts with the Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Mister Fantastic and the Thing, the studio is...

Bruck’s big Shake

Posted 17 years ago

Superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer has plenty of (Disney’s) cash, and he clearly knows how to spend it. Screenwriter Derek Haas (co-writer of WANTED and 3:10 to YUMA) is probably happy for Bruck’s willingness to depart with currency, since he recently collected...

Parnassus for Xmas

Posted 17 years ago

If you’re the sort who ventures out to theaters on Christmas Day with the family (or to escape it), you’ll have your pick of Jude Law movies to choose from: SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS. If they...

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Pandorum mo-poster

Posted 17 years ago

Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster are gonna deal with space terror in PANDORUM on September 25th (the new release date). And while we won’t know the exact form the terror takes until then, it will apparently involve some kind of...

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