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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

Uncharted: the Movie

Posted 17 years ago

When I first played the PS3 adventure game UNCHARTED: DRAKE’S FORTUNE (which is a blast), I thought the experience was cinematic enough to be a prime candidate for feature treatment. Now a couple years later (and a sequel game due...

Gervais blogs next

Posted 17 years ago

While Brit comic Ricky Gervais continues his slow burn of squirm with “The Office” (the UK version ended, but the US version keeps on going) and HBO’s “Extras” (seems like everyone skipped GHOST TOWN), he’s also keeping himself busy directing...

Daybreakers trailer

Posted 17 years ago

I kinda dug the Spierig Brothers’ first horror cheapie UNDEAD — it was an uneven zomcom effort, but it definitely made me wonder what they could do with a substantial budget. The answer would seem to be DAYBREAKERS, and so...

Chinese Blood Simple

Posted 17 years ago

Considering all the times Hollywood has plundered movie material from Asia, turnabout is fair play. So a Hong Kong remake of the Coen Brothers’ noir classic BLOOD SIMPLE is in the works, from no less than acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou...

The Box trailer

Posted 17 years ago

After a long wait, we’ve finally got a good look at THE BOX, the spooky thriller from DONNIE DARKO virtuoso Richard Kelly. Cameron Diaz and James Marsden play a couple who receive a strange box gives them fortune but causes...

Losers get a date

Posted 17 years ago

Warner Bros.’ adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic series THE LOSERS looks like it will kick off next summer’s action pretty early. According to Box Office Mojo, the flick is slotted for release on April 16th, 2010. The story revolves around...

Bond gets haunted?

Posted 17 years ago

Sinewy superspy Daniel Craig hasn’t exactly hurried to his next non-007 film, but it sounds like he’s going to relax. In a haunted house. The Bond followup to QUANTUM OF SOLACE is already scheduled for 2011 (with Michael Sheen rumored...

Alien Makers docu

Posted 17 years ago

Ridley Scott’s ALIEN is of my all-time faves (Cameron’s sequel even more so), but the Giger-designed killing machine’s treatment since then has been even more terrifying than the creature itself. Fortunately, people out there still love the lethal xenomorph’s first...

Some Avatar seen

Posted 17 years ago

True fans of sci-fi, genre cinema and next-tech are salivating for James Cameron’s upcoming 3D epic AVATAR. He finally just unveiled some footage from his $300 million (!!!) project at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam utilizing the RealD XL Cinema...

Shia still wants Y

Posted 17 years ago

Despite recent comments to the contrary, Shia LaBeouf is apparently still keen on being the man beneath the monkey for an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s Vertigo comic Y: THE LAST MAN. Just not right away. As Kid Beef tells...

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