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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

1st Avatar Na’vi toy?

Posted 17 years ago

Look what just slid into in our inbox — a snap of what would seem to be the toy for Sam Worthington’s alien alter-ego in James Cameron’s AVATAR. In the movie, Worthington plays a disabled war vet who “downloads” his...

Hughes documentary

Posted 17 years ago

Just the other day I was reading Geek Monthly‘s “Revenge of the 80s” issue, which features an article about some filmmakers putting together a documentary. Their subject: the influential but reclusive John Hughes, the “J.D. Salinger of American film directors,”...

Official Machete notes

Posted 17 years ago

Just yesterday we got the impressive (if inexplicable) list of talent now involved with Robert Rodriguez’s MACHETE, expanded to full-length from the popular GRINDHOUSE trailer. Now we’ve got a few more details on the project, straight from the filmmaker himself....

G.I. Joe? Figures.

Posted 17 years ago

You might be itching to check out G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA this weekend, but maybe you’re afraid director Stephen Sommers’ cartoonish action flick won’t stick close enough to the 80s animated series and toys. So here’s THE INVASION...

Singer goes to Syfy

Posted 17 years ago

Since leaving his long-planned remake of LOGAN’S RUN, director Bryan Singer hasn’t dabbled much with science fiction, but he’s heading back to the genre… to give you three nights of viewing. Singer will direct a six-hour miniseries for the Syfy...

Berg talks Dune

Posted 17 years ago

As a kid, I recall getting excited to see DUNE – “A new sci-fi movie like STAR WARS! With the guy from The Police! This is gonna be awesome!” And then I saw… whatever it was that David Lynch made....

Neeson is Unknown

Posted 17 years ago

Since the tragic death of his wife, actor Liam Neeson has been working almost non-stop to presumably keep his mind otherwise occupied. Neeson’s fans will be happy that’s his coping mechanism for loss rather than grieving in seclusion – in...

Perfect Getaway clips

Posted 17 years ago

Director David Twohy last took us to the edge of the Underverse, but he’s traveling someplace more pleasant with the tropical environs of A PERFECT GETAWAY. And then, of course, the murdering. The RIDDICK handler keeps things sweaty and perilous...

Piven’s RAW Goods

Posted 17 years ago

You have to admire the lengths some people will go to get you to see their latest movie. Or, you could just shake your head in bewilderment. As long as it results in you slapping down green for a ticket,...

Basterds minimovie

Posted 17 years ago

Despite the prominent scalp-hunting themes, Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is arguably as much about cinema as it is a war movie. One of the film’s major story points revolves around a noted Nazi sharpshooter, and the propaganda film about his exploits,...

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