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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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Wolvie game trailer

Posted 17 years ago

It’s just a few more weeks before X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE hits screens (legally), upon which time you’ll also have the opportunity to take control of Hugh Jackman’s digital equivalent in the official video game. As with most tie-in games, the...

Terminators trailer

Posted 17 years ago

You have to give The Asylum credit — they’ve mastered the art of the ripoff. These 21st century hucksters churn out an impressive number of chump-ready “mockbusters” (or “knockbusters”), low-budget DVD flicks solely designed to mimic upcoming high-profile genre movies....

Bay don’t Twitter

Posted 17 years ago

For a brief explosive moment, it looked like TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN director/destructor Michael Bay had joined the growing ranks of famous types keeping interested parties privy to tiny thoughts via craze-of-the-week “networking” service Twitter. Turns out it was...

Shue fits Piranha?

Posted 17 years ago

Filmmaker Alexandre Aja (THE HILLS HAVE EYES) has been swimming around an update of PIRANHA (in 3D) for a couple of years now, but has he finally sunk his teeth into a heroine to deal with the hungry fish? Moviehole...

Angels & Demons clip

Posted 17 years ago

If you weren’t too crazy about THE DA VINCI CODE, you might need something to wind you up for the sequel ANGELS AND DEMONS. How about a collection of scenes from the impending blockbuster — without Mr. Trailer Voice, but...

Eerie Joker figure

Posted 17 years ago

How accurate can an action figure’s likeness get to its human counterpart before it crosses over into being downright creepy? Hot Toys may have found the answer with their latest “cop disguise” variant DARK KNIGHT Joker, the upcoming debut of...

Movie prop auction

Posted 17 years ago

If you always wanted to own a piece of major cinematic memorabilia, an upcoming auction from Profiles in History has an impressive collection of props spanning decades of film getting ready to go on the block. The auction, on April...

No Bolly Ben Button?

Posted 17 years ago

Was the world dangerously close to getting a withered Benjamin Button suddenly bursting into a full-blown Bollywood dance number? Although Bollywood has developed a notorious habit of liberally borrowing/plagiarizing movie concepts from Hollywood and elsewhere (RESERVOIR DOGS, OLDBOY, HITCH, WHAT...

Valhalla Rising trailer

Posted 17 years ago

There just aren’t enough good Viking movies, and Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (whose recent BRONSON won raves) obviously wants to change that with VALHALLA RISING. CASINO ROYALE’s Mads Mikkelsen steps up his capacity for violence from Bond ballsmacking to...

Moon trailer

Posted 17 years ago

Sam Rockwell gets to put on a (nearly) one-man show in MOON, which finds him as a miner isolated on the lunar surface in the upcoming sci-fi movie from director Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie). Turns out Sam’s not...

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