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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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Blade Runner webseries

Posted 17 years ago

If you’ve always wanted to revisit the world of director Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking and influential sci-fi film BLADE RUNNER, it sounds like you may get that opportunity. Sort of. According to the NY Times, Scott’s commercial company RSA Films and...

Musical Valley Girl

Posted 17 years ago

Besides remakes, musicals seem to be the Big Thing at the moment (I blame ABBA), so we should probably prepare for more announcements like this one. A musical remake of the cult fave VALLEY GIRL is in the works at...

SNLers do Spider-Man

Posted 17 years ago

If you didn’t make it to ye local comic shoppe last week, you missed the one-shot “Spider-Man: The Short Halloween”. What makes this book different from the hundred-plus other titles churned out by Marvel on a monthly basis? It was...

Commando remake?

Posted 17 years ago

Remember when I promised to remake you last? I lied. Hollywood is slowly working its way through history (distant or recent) for material to remake, revamp or reboot, and even a masterpiece like COMMANDO is not immune. ‘Katy’ forwarded us...

Scott Pilgrim poster

Posted 17 years ago

I’m squirmy with anticipation to see what director Edgar Wright does with Bryan Lee O’Malley’s killer graphic novel series SCOTT PILGRIM vs. THE WORLD, but I like the way it’s being plugged so far. Although I would’ve loved to see...

Ryder talks Heathers 2

Posted 17 years ago

We’ve already heard they’re making HEATHERS into a musical, but now they’re also doing a sequel? How very. Original Heather (er, Veronica) Winona Ryder gave up the details, such as they are: “Whatever you hear, there is a sequel in...

Total Recall remake

Posted 17 years ago

We were warned, and they meant it. A new version of Paul Verhoeven’s wondrously violent sci-fi mindjob TOTAL RECALL is on the way. It’s nearly a whole two decades old, and therefore requires a hot new cast and loads more...

Talking ’bout Thor

Posted 17 years ago

Kenneth Branagh has been rounding up his principal actors for his feature version of Marvel’s THOR, but what about the story? Cinefools talked with the project’s co-rewriter Ashley Miller, who’s been tinkering with the draft along with his “Fringe” and...

Moon director’s next

Posted 17 years ago

Director Duncan Jones’ lunar oddity MOON lands in Earth theaters next month, but he’s planning to go in a different direction for his new project — down. Jones (son of David Bowie) will take a page from James Cameron’s soggy...

Gore off Bioshock?

Posted 17 years ago

Will the BIOSHOCK movie end up sinking, lost forever with the remains of Rapture? While PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN director Gore Verbinski seemed perfectly suited to bring the videogame BIOSHOCK and its submerged city to life, it sounds like he’s...

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