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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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Zwick goes to Sea

Posted 17 years ago

Director Ed Zwick has dealt with the Civil War, WWII, ninjas and sanguine jewelry. Time for… a killer whale! Zwick (BLOOD DIAMOND, DEFIANCE) will take to the crow’s nest for IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, which he adapted from...

Terminator trailer!

Posted 17 years ago

Grab your phased plasma rifle (in the 40 watt range) and put on your best metal-mashing gear — the full trailer for TERMINATOR SALVATION has arrived. I’m not entirely sold on those killcycles and there seems to be a curious...

Enter: Suicide Squad

Posted 17 years ago

Considering the amount of attention The Joker received for THE DARK KNIGHT, it’s not too surprising that Warner Bros. is dipping into more DC Comics villains. Just not ones that are very well known. The studio is putting a SUICIDE...

Saints Row movie?

Posted 17 years ago

This will probably draw ire from the hardcore gamers out there, but as “crime simulators” go, I found last years SAINTS ROW 2 to be a much more satisfying and entertaining (if immature) experience than the acclaimed GTA 4. Of...

Sherlock for Christmas

Posted 17 years ago

Director Guy Ritchie’s “action adventure mystery” SHERLOCK HOLMES was initially going to be doing its detecting on November 13th of this year, but now the celebrated sleuth will be gift-wrapped and placed under the tree to be opened Christmas Day....

Wrestler vidgame

Posted 17 years ago

Pardon the misleading headline, but this is not actually announcing development of a videogame that will allow players to drop the Ram Jam on various spandex-clad digital opponents. Not yet, anyway… It is, however, of interest to anyone with an...

Edgar Wright filmfest

Posted 17 years ago

Our beloved Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ) is currently up in Toronto shooting SCOTT PILGRIM vs. THE WORLD, and has decided to spend some of his downtime programming and participating in a film festival. Aside from SHAUN...

Verbinski gets Clue

Posted 17 years ago

Monopoly. Stretch Armstrong. GI Joe. Candyland. Ouija. And of course, Clue. It’s not just the dusty pile of stuff on the top shelf of your closet — pretty soon, it will be the stuff on your local cinema screens. PIRATES...

Seyfried Sucker Punch

Posted 17 years ago

Is saucer-eyed MAMMA MIA cutie Amanda Seyfried up for some action with the guy behind 300 and WATCHMEN? She will if filmmaker Zack Snyder gets his way. He’s planning to commence work on his psychedelic female-fronted action flick SUCKER PUNCH...

S. Darko trailer

Posted 17 years ago

Well, damn. Actress Daveigh Chase, the young terror Samara from THE RING remake, has certainly blossomed into an aesthetically pleasing young woman. The kid sis of DONNIE DARKO is back as that character in a questionable direct-to-vid sequel called S....

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