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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

I Will Be Legend

Posted 18 years ago

It’s been rumored/threatened for a while, but Warner Bros. and the principal talent are apparently going through with a prequel to the hit post-apocalyptic thriller I AM LEGEND. The prequel will tell the story that someone out there (probably the...

Cloverfield to vampire

Posted 18 years ago

Let’s say that for your last directing effort, you crushed New York with a giant monster. How would you follow that? A remake? Some bloodsuckers? No — both. CLOVERFIELD director Matt Reeves is planning an Americanization of the outstanding Swedish...

Changeling poster

Posted 18 years ago

Clint Eastwood’s period film CHANGELING involves a tenacious mother’s search for her kidnapped son. What’s a good way to capture that in a single image? With a terrifyingly huge photo of star Angelina Jolie’s disembodied head, of course! Taking unoriginal...

Crystal goes Fairy

Posted 18 years ago

If your last movie was ANALYZE THAT, you might hide for a while too. Except for the occasional Oscar hosting duty, of course. Billy Crystal, who I’m certain was previously funny, will contribute to the continuing emasculation of Dwayne “Ex-The...

Notorious trailer

Posted 18 years ago

I’m not sure how many hip-hop fans read the site, specifically the work of rotund rapper Notorious B.I.G. (aka Big Poppa, aka Biggie Smalls, aka Christopher George Latore Wallace), but the story behind his rise and controversial — and unsolved...

American Psycho musical

Posted 18 years ago

Disney has found sackfuls of success converting their ‘toons to Broadway shows, and it’s worked for other movie properties, so it makes perfect sense for Patrick Bateman to follow. Wait, what? It’s true — producers want to follow in the...

Shane Black returns!

Posted 18 years ago

Even though it brought him back from self-imposed exile, Shane Black’s excellent and criminally underseen quip-filled modern noir KISS KISS BANG BANG didn’t quite get him LETHAL WEAPON-level attention. Now he’s following up his solid directing debut with another effort…...

Rashomon again

Posted 18 years ago

Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece RASHOMON and its twisting multiple perspectives have influenced dozens of movies, some good (THE USUAL SUSPECTS, RESERVOIR DOGS), some not quite so (BASIC, ONE NIGHT AT McCOOL’S). Why not go right to the source material — and...

Quantum poster?

Posted 18 years ago

The soundtrack for the new Bond flick QUANTUM OF SOLACE is available for pre-order at Amazon, who had the cover pic online… briefly. But nothing disappears forever on the internets. The question now is, how closely will this resemble the...

More on Mel’s next

Posted 18 years ago

Mel Gibson’s return to acting finds him hanging out in my relative backyard, shooting his cop thriller EDGE OF DARKNESS in and around Boston. The Gloucester Times talks about the film’s shoot in the small seaside town of Rockport, and...

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