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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

Tell Tale clip

Posted 17 years ago

I thought actor Josh Lucas might have the potential to be a “Next Big Thing”, but while he’s been in some high-profile movies… those movies have unfortunately been STEALTH and POSEIDON. Oops. He’s taken it down in scale for the...

Ninja Turtles live!

Posted 17 years ago

If I correctly recall their evolution, the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES crawled from the toxic ooze to a comic book, videogames, action figures, live-action feature, cartoon series, CG-animation, and now… back to live-action. As rumored a few times over the...

Spidey 4 in 3-D?

Posted 17 years ago

When Spidey swishes his way back to theaters in May 2011, will he be firing his wrist-jizz right out the screen into your anxiously awaiting eyeballs? Forbes presented the question of SPIDER-MAN 4 in 3-D to Sony honcho Amy Pascal,...

Trade HD for Blu-Ray

Posted 17 years ago

If you’re one of those chumps (like me) who jumped at the launch of HD-DVD before the “format war” really got underway, you’re probably looking at stack of discs for a dead tech. Warner Bros. is taking a bit of...

Next for Cruise?

Posted 17 years ago

For an A-list guy, Tom Cruise has been in limbo for a surprising amount of time after his notorious TROPIC THUNDER appearance and moderate success with VALKYRIE. The miniature blockbuster maker has been hovering around quite a few projects but...

Evans is a Loser?

Posted 17 years ago

Chris Evans seems to be keeping those impressively chiseled features close to the comic book world. After two stints in fire-retardant spandex for FANTASTIC FOUR and an upcoming appearance as an evil ex-boyfriend in SCOTT PILGRIM, he’s also joining Warner...

Extreme anti-piracy

Posted 17 years ago

After the much-reported early online leak of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE and its rapid proliferation across the tubes of the internets, studios are rightfully more paranoid than ever about piracy. But aside from stern warnings and occasional prosecution, what can they...

Set phasers on spoon

Posted 17 years ago

The “final frontier”? It’s your bowl. If you miss the childhood days when every big summer movie was an opportunity for the headache-inducing sweetness of a new breakfast cereal, Kellogg’s is thinking of you. Bless them. As part of STAR...

Dolph on Expendables

Posted 17 years ago

WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS! When Sly Stallone’s action flick THE EXPENDABLES first started coming together, his ROCKY IV opponent Dolph Lundgren was mentioned as part of the ensemble, but his name slowly slipped down the list as more meat was thrown...

Bay tribute vid

Posted 17 years ago

While your own appreciation of his movies themselves may vary, there is one indisputable fact about director/destructor Michael Bay: he’s the master of the “money shot.” Whether it’s edgy cops shooting guns in slo-mo, gigantic robots pounding each other in...

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