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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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More Bourne!

Posted 18 years ago

Amnesiac superspy and government pawn Jason Bourne is on his way back for more globetrotting espionage. While it’s been rumored ever since THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM scored meaty box office, Universal has officially put a paid writer at the keyboard in...

The Road delayed?

Posted 18 years ago

If you’ve been anxious to see an exceptionally grimy Viggo Mortensen and his kid travel post-apocalyptic America in the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bleak novel THE ROAD, you may be waiting a bit longer. The movie was intended for release...

Carell goes French

Posted 18 years ago

Steve Carell put his cinematic linguistic aptitude on the screen in GET SMART, but now he’s shifting his tongue from Russian to French. Carell will wrap his lips around the romance language for THE ADVENTURES OF BRIGADIER GERARD, based on...

Ronin: the series?

Posted 18 years ago

The spies-turned-mercenaries of the slick action flick RONIN may be blasting their way to your hi-def set — a series based on the 1998 Robert DeNiro/Jean Reno movie from director John Frankenheimer is now in the works. MGM is working...

More Bastards actors

Posted 18 years ago

UPDATE: The full cast list from today’s official press release for the movie (carrying QT’s infamously misspelled title INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS): Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard,...

Killer Henson puppets?

Posted 18 years ago

Although Muppet master Jim Henson has passed on, his company is keeping various felt-covered creatures alive. And now killing them, apparently. The Henson Co. is looking at a script called THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS, a mature mystery thriller set in a...

Abrams talks Trek time

Posted 18 years ago

If you were expecting JJ Abrams’ STAR TREK to be an endlessly epic experience, make plans for after the flick. The director believes you actually can get too much of a good thing — he fully intended to keep the...

New Punisher clip

Posted 18 years ago

In case you haven’t clicked your itchy trigger finger over there lately, the official site for PUNISHER: WAR ZONE features a new clip of Marvel’s violent vigilante Frank shooting many, many, many dudes. But what’s even more interesting than profuse...

Wall Street 2

Posted 18 years ago

Considering the recent economic apocalypse, making a sequel to WALL STREET right now is either brilliant timing or a terrible and tasteless idea. But Fox doesn’t care either way — they’re moving forward with the long-discussed follow-up to Oliver Stone’s...

Star Wars ABCs

Posted 18 years ago

I’m pretty burned out on the STAR WARS universe ever since Jedi Neeson first wrestled with a Gungan, but I’m not so cold that I can’t get a kick out of the Alphabet by way of a galaxy far, far...

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