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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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A trailer of 9

Posted 17 years ago

Shane Acker premiered his surreal short film 9 at Sundance way back in 2005, and he’s been laboring ever since to bring a feature version to reality. The computer-rendered style seems made to resemble stop-motion animation, giving a unique look...

Bruce feels Grimm

Posted 17 years ago

This long into his career, Bruce Willis still doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. Aside from all the other projects he’s working on, now he’s apparently attached to a horror-thriller called GRIMM. Another attempt at modernizing the popular Grimm’s...

Mad Max lives?

Posted 17 years ago

Years ago, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was tearing ass along the asphalt… until the Iraq War put the brakes on the production. Since then, director George Miller has (in between starting JUSTICE LEAGUE and HAPPY FEET 2) has mentioned the...

Terminator Machinima

Posted 17 years ago

Need more meat to get you amped up for TERMINATOR SALVATION (or its videogame tie-in)? Here comes digitized cyborgs in TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE MACHINIMA SERIES, six original episodes that follow the story of Blair Williams (portrayed by the fleshy goodness...

More Leslie Vernon?

Posted 17 years ago

A couple of years ago, a new slasher entered the pantheon of masked killers in the excellent BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON, a neat twist on an oversaturated genre. Like the relentless iconic murderers that influenced him,...

Sherlock trailer!

Posted 17 years ago

The trailer for Guy Ritchie’s two-fisted sleuth adventure SHERLOCK HOLMES has arrived and, well… it’s a whole lot more jokey than I expected (or wanted, really). It feels a bit like Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark got sucked through a...

Kirk’s dad is Thor?

Posted 17 years ago

Marvel’s Thunder God movie has finally been coming along, but the question has been “Who will play THOR?” Now the question would seem to be: “Who’s this guy playing THOR?” According to Nikki Finke, the answer is 25-year-old Aussie actor...

Trek beams to space

Posted 17 years ago

Space… the final frontier? Not the case for STAR TREK, both fictionally and literally. Last week, JJ Abrams reboot was beamed into the cosmos, stopping at the International Space Station for orbiting NASA astronaut Michael Barratt to watch. Barratt went...

No new Lecter movie

Posted 17 years ago

In the past couple of days, a rumor ripped through the tubes of the internets claiming that Sir Anthony Hopkins was returning to the role of fiendish flesh-eater Hannibal Lecter, reuniting with his HANNIBAL helmer Ridley Scott and featuring a...

Humpty Dumpty peek

Posted 17 years ago

When I heard that director David Ellis, the man behind the inspired carnage of FINAL DESTINATION 2, was making a 3-D movie called HUMPTY DUMPTY about a half-alien creature seeking revenge on the rednecks who raped his mother, well… I...

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