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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

Shazam takes a rest

Posted 18 years ago

One downside of THE DARK KNIGHT’s unstoppable box office success: now Warner Bros. apparently believes that “dark and gritty” is the only way to go for comic book projects. Because copying something successful always works. Except for all those times...

Caruso & the Beanstalk

Posted 18 years ago

Fee fie foe fum! I smell… an update of a classic fairy tale! Hooray for public domain! While many of us thought director DJ Caruso might complete the Shia trifecta (after DISTURBIA and EAGLE EYE) with his planned adaptation of...

Kingsley Expendable?

Posted 18 years ago

Well, it sounds like Sylvester Stallone won’t be reuniting with his DEMOLITION MAN co-star Sandra Bullock after all. But has his all-out action onslaught THE EXPENDABLES gained a knight? While ambushed by Extra, Stallone not only confirmed the involvement of...

Seven sequel update

Posted 18 years ago

Batman’s next job?

Posted 18 years ago

I have to hand it to THE DARK KNIGHT’s legions of fans — they seem cheerfully accepting (if not overly protective) of the film’s flaws, most notably Christian Bale’s masked impersonation of Cookie Monster. But hey, maybe I’m just too...

Chandni Chowk trailer

Posted 18 years ago

I don’t know if Bollywood movies will ever hold much appeal for mainstream American audiences… but adding lots of fight scenes and gorgeous babes probably can’t hurt. CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA seems to be taking a page from the Jackie...

How it should’ve ended

Posted 18 years ago

In the news wasteland of the next couple of days if you need something to keep you occupied while ticking away time at work, waiting for the ball to drop (no, the other one) or nursing your New Year’s Day...

3 Seashells explained

Posted 18 years ago

If your scatological curiosity has yet to be satisfied since you first saw the destructive Stallone sci-fi flick DEMOLITION MAN, maybe this will help answer the perplexing “three sea shells” used for futuristic bathroom hygiene (but not by John Spartan)....

Two Lovers trailer

Posted 18 years ago

When actors leave the business behind (willingly or mortally), you never know what you’ll get for their last project. Sometimes it’s THE ROAD TO PERDITION, sometimes it’s STREET FIGHTER. I don’t know if Joaquin Phoenix will adhere to his self-imposed...

Bullock Expendable?

Posted 18 years ago

Will Sylvester Stallone’s action flick THE EXPENDABLES be a great movie… or the greatest movie? So far, Sly has lined up Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Forest Whitaker and Randy Couture for his tale of mercenaries on a mission...

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