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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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Ong Bak 2 trailer

Posted 17 years ago

If you dig modern martial arts movies, you’re almost certainly familiar with the skull-cracking skills of Tony Jaa. The acrobatic elephant-loving Thai whirlwind is back in the incongruously titled ONG BAK 2: THE BEGINNING (or is it meant to be...

Jackman the Showman

Posted 17 years ago

After Wolverine’s hoedown with Deadpool and Sabretooth disappointed some fans of the clawed mutant, Hugh Jackman is taking his golden throat and fleet feet to a bigger show. The greatest show, in fact, on the whole damn globe. Our favorite...

Samlize Worthingtheron

Posted 17 years ago

While he was shooting up Shakespeare in a contemporized MACBETH and being devoured by a killer croc in ROGUE, Aussie actor Sam Worthington probably never imagined that in just a few short years he’d be taking the lead in a...

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Pandorum poster

Posted 17 years ago

Keeping fingers and tentacles crossed for PANDORUM. The posters (including the latest flesh flayer below) have been freaky, the trailers have been atmospheric attention-grippers, the leads are tops, and there just aren’t enough starship-based horror-thrillers. With luck, the movie won’t...

Mad Max 4 still on?

Posted 17 years ago

Although the Iraq War got sand in the motor of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD and put it on blocks, in the years since then we’ve heard occasional rumblings that there’s still a bit of juice in the last of the...

Denzel is Bittersweet?

Posted 17 years ago

This slipped by me amidst the Comic Con chaos, but Twitch says that Denzel Washington (himself a Con attendee for THE BOOK OF ELI) is planning to star in an American remake of the outstanding South Korean film A BITTERSWEET...

Alien vs. prequel

Posted 17 years ago

The xenomorphs are getting a break from being bludgeoned by PREDATORS and bad spinoff movies — as previously rumored/expected/dreaded, Fox is moving ahead with a prequel to ALIEN. Ridley Scott, the man who first brought he Giger-designed extraterrestrial killing machine...

Tron guy and Fincher

Posted 17 years ago

No, David Fincher (FIGHT CLUB, SEVEN) isn’t making a movie about the doughy guy who achieved minor online celebrity for squeezing himself into a home-made TRON costume — Fincher might be developing a Facebook movie, but he’s not totally nutty...

Renner heads to Town

Posted 17 years ago

After years of turning in strong work, it looks like Jeremy Renner’s powerful performance in THE HURT LOCKER is getting him some deserved attention. Renner is in talks to co-star in THE TOWN, a romantic crime thriller with Ben Affleck…...

Smell like Star Trek

Posted 17 years ago

When I was a younger hellion, movie merchandise tended to be limited to toy stores, fast-food franchises and the breakfast cereal aisle. Now it seems that every possible avenue for tie-in material is being explored. This is further demonstrated by...

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