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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

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Guns ‘N Roses ‘N Leo

Hey, remember all the excitement when rockers Guns ‘N Roses were going to be involved with the Dirty Harry flick THE DEAD POOL? Well, since a lot of you were in grade school or at least a decade away from...
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Nazi zombies!

Nazis make great villains, and zombies make great monsters. And yet I don’t think there’s been a notable Nazi zombie flick since SHOCK WAVES (OUTPOST came close, but is really more of a ghost story. Decent flick, though). So the...
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Prodigy Panabaker

Will pouty-lipped cutie Danielle Panabaker be the next Action Girl? That could depend on how good PRODIGY turns out to be. The fine young star of SKY HIGH and MR. BROOKS will star in the sci-fi action flick. The story...
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Repo making of clip

Did the guys behind REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA really start "this opera shit"? I can’t say for sure (I have my doubts), but that’s the title of this new behind-the-scenes video that traces some of the project’s evolution from stage...
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MarvelMount Studio

Will the opening credits of Marvel’s future superhero movies now contain clever ways to incorporate Paramount’s famous chunk of rocky real estate? Sure looks that way. The studio who distributed Marvel’s smash solo debut IRON MAN wants another piece of...
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Watch Slacker Uprising

Regardless of how you feel about him and his movies, it’s difficult to argue that documentary filmmaker Michael Moore gets a reaction. He’s hoping you react by watching his latest production SLACKER UPRISING… for free, on your computer or applicable...
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Romero’s next zoms

As the resident zombie fanatic around here, I’m obviously excited that legendary undead wrangler George Romero is doing another Dead film. Although I found the social commentary of DIARY OF THE DEAD was a bit “on the nose” compared to...
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Reacher rambles in

Author Lee Child’s roving ex-army cop Jack Reacher (how come tough guys are never named Stanley or Purvis?) has seen plenty of novelized adventures, but he’s somehow never made it to the big screen despite several attempts. That might finally...
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Rotten Scoundrels again

Occasionally I’ll mention how much I miss Steve Martin — not the charmless pod person from the past decade, but the genuinely funny guy from PLAINS TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES, L.A. STORY and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. Someone is going to have...
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New Valkyrie stuff

After delays lasting almost as long as WWII, Bryan Singer and Tom Cruise are finally delivering Hitler for the holidays. The conspiracy thriller VALKYRIE will finally arrive on December 26, and a new poster and some snaps have been released...
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