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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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Valentine 3D poster

Posted 18 years ago

The thing you might remember most about the 80s slasher flick MY BLOODY VALENTINE is the iconic image of the movie’s gas-mask wearing, pickaxe-wielding homicidal miner. For the upcoming remake, you’ll have to remember it — because while the early...

Friday the 13th teaser

Posted 18 years ago

If you missed Spike TV’s Scream Awards (where our man Jimmy O and his ‘stache stalked the red carpet), then you didn’t catch the new glimpse at the reboot of the slasher series FRIDAY THE 13th. Fortunately, we have internets....

Kutcher is a Killer?

Posted 18 years ago

Does babyfaced prank-puller Ashton Kutcher have the chops to play a cold killer? Not without a comic edge, apparently. The trucker hat-wearing cougar-catcher is starring in FIVE KILLERS, an action-comedy about a reformed hitman who has been targeted by a...

Palahniuk’s Haunted

Posted 18 years ago

Author Chuck Palahniuk may not exactly write the most commercial material (FIGHT CLUB, CHOKE), but he certainly has a considerable fan base. In fact, that fan base (aka “The Cult”) is usually the best source of any updates on his...

Reiner in Shadows

Posted 18 years ago

When you hear the words “action-adventure”, you may not immediately think of Rob Reiner, who’s perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Meathead” on “ALL IN THE FAMILY” and his directing work on the legendary mockumentary THIS IS SPINAL TAP...

Role Models boobies

Posted 18 years ago

While I’m not certain just how this promotion factors into the movie ROLE MODELS, this sort of marketing is certainly pertinent to the interests of the JoBlo staff and a good percentage of site readership. Because, boobs. The movie involves...

Transformers: the Ride

Posted 18 years ago

Origin of The Spirit

Posted 18 years ago

If you’re not that familiar with Will Eisner’s classic comic character, you might be wondering what the big deal is with THE SPIRIT. This new behind-the-scenes vid from Yahoo might help shed a little light on the pulp hero and...

Gray in for Darabont

Posted 18 years ago

For a guy whose last movie was BE COOL, F. Gary Gray got paroled pretty quickly from Director Jail. Aside from a Marvin Gaye biopic, a long-proposed sequel to THE ITALIAN JOB, an “urbanized” update of JULIUS CAESAR and the...

Neeson After.Life

Posted 18 years ago

Liam Neeson is undoubtedly talented, but can even he resuscitate the corpse of an actress? We’ll find out — Neeson will play a potentially sinister funeral director in the upcoming supernatural thriller AFTER.LIFE (complete with seemingly superfluous title punctuation). The...

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