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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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Emma Stone vs. zombies

Posted 18 years ago

Emma Stone has a bone to pick with the walking dead. The SUPERBAD supercutie will administer a much-needed dose of adorable to the post-apocalyptic landscape of ZOMBIELAND. Stone joins Jesse Eisenberg and the substantially less adorable Woody Harrelson as a...

Watchmen case ends!

Posted 18 years ago

You can finally rest easy, fans of Alan Moore, Rorschach and Silk Spectre II. You’ll get your movie on the original intended 3.6.09 release date — the tiresome ongoing saga of litigation surrounding the live-action WATCHMEN has finally come to...

Crank 2 trailer

Posted 18 years ago

“If you can get a hold of your heart, I’m reasonably sure I can put it back in.” That’s what Dr. Dwight tells ventricle-challenged hitman Chev Chelios in CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE, which should be a good indicator of the...

McQueen gets biopic

Posted 18 years ago

While it’s probably past due, a biopic focusing on the life of legendary actor Steve McQueen is in the works. The epitome of old-school Hollywood cool (and a personal idol), McQueen was perhaps as well-known for his wild off-screen proclivities...

RIP: Khan & No. 6

Posted 18 years ago

Bad day, with a couple of fine actors leaving us. Actor Ricardo Montalban passed away at age 88. Perhaps best known to genre fans as the menacing Khan Noonian Singh from STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (and it’s...

The Informers trailer

Posted 18 years ago

Author Bret Easton Ellis excels at a couple of things: excess, and the 80s (LESS THAN ZERO, AMERICAN PSYCHO). And both are front and center for THE INFORMERS, which Ellis adapted from his own novel. The movie comes from director...

Crank 2 teaser poster

Posted 18 years ago

It will be interesting to see if lunatic filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor can somehow outshine CRANK, or if that flick was just endorphin-flavored lightning in a bottle. Either way, accelerating hitman Chev Chelios is back for another preposterous...

Jackie Chan is Miyagi

Posted 18 years ago

Jackie Chan knows that a man who can catch a paycheck with chopsticks can accomplish anything… or at least the repackaging of your memories for financial gain. The legendary martial actor will be mentoring a new childlike companion (no, not...

French Underworld 3

Posted 18 years ago

The werewolves will be generally moving in a vertical direction when the prequel UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS claws at your eyes and wallets later this month, with the lovely Rhona Mitra dealing death as a precursor to Kate Beckinsale....

Radha goes Crazies

Posted 18 years ago

Australian actress Radha Mitchell loves her sci-fi and horror — she’s already done SILENT HILL, PITCH BLACK, the underappreciated killer-croc flick ROGUE, and the upcoming futuristic Bruce Willis movie THE SURROGATES. And now she’s really gonna get nuts. According to...

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