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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

Ash vs. Highlander!

Posted 18 years ago

No, it’s not another “dream team” smackdown feature film like FREDDY vs. JASON or anything… Just something I found on an old hard drive and figured I’d share, since it’s appropriate for Halloween. It’s a short film featuring our favorite...

Zack & Miri secret/ban

Posted 18 years ago

Kevin Smith’s latest raunch romp ZACK & MIRI MAKE A PORNO hits screens today, featuring the delectable Elizabeth Banks, several porn stars, and a funny hairy dude named Seth. If you haven’t checked out the movie’s microsite yet/lately, head on...

Zombie War Zone song

Posted 18 years ago

For those of you who have watched Rob Zombie’s movies and wished he’d return to making music, you’re in luck. Zombie’s contribution to the soundtrack of PUNISHER: WAR ZONE is a tune succinctly titled “War Zone” (which has been playing...

Slumdog trailer

Posted 18 years ago

Of his previous work, director Danny Boyle’s acclaimed new romance/drama SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE looks a bit closer in tone to MILLIONS than, say, 28 DAYS LATER. But he’s the rare director who can hit the target in just about any genre....

Horror in 66.6 seconds

Posted 18 years ago

Trying to get into the Halloween spirit, but you just don’t have a ton of spare time? How about a handful of horror flicks from the past few decades, each condensed down to a devilish 66.6 seconds? FEARnet has a...

Riddick/Ghostbusters games

Posted 18 years ago

Fans of the GHOSTBUSTERS and RIDDICK movies were thrilled to know they were getting pseudo-sequels, just in videogame form. That was, until the publisher Vivendi merged with Activision and the games got dumped from the schedule. Cheer up! Both games...

Oldman vs. Denzel

Posted 18 years ago

While it’s nice to see him occasionally on the side of the angels, Gary Oldman is at his goddamn best doing scenery-chewing evil. Oldman is slipping into his villain britches for THE BOOK OF ELI, a Western-flavored post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick...

Mendes does Preacher!

Posted 18 years ago

It was starting to seem more likely that the Rapture would happen before a live-action version of the incredible comic series PREACHER would become flesh. But Jesse Custer and his merry lunatic band might be coming after all, courtesy of...

Joaquin quits acting?

Posted 18 years ago

Has actor Joaquin Phoenix had his fill of the biz? That’s what the still-young thesp tells Extra: “I’m not doing films anymore,” he bluntly stated at a recent Paul Newman benefit. And apparently he means it: “Yeah. I’m working on...

M. Night’s Devil

Posted 18 years ago

If you made it through THE HAPPENING (it took me two attempts), perhaps you were thinking that maybe M. Night Shyamalan should take a break from writing and directing. Turns out that’s actually the case, to an extent. Shyamalan is...

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