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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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Shooting the Bastards

Posted 18 years ago

For the past couple of months, we’ve been keeping track of all the conjecture and casting on Quentin Tarantino’s suddenly swift-moving WWII project INGLORIOUS BASTARDS. We already know who most of the participants are… but how will QT’s new movie...

More Ghostbusters?!?

Posted 18 years ago

Was Dan Aykroyd right all along? For years, the alter-ego of spook-shooter Ray Stantz cheerfully discussed the possibility of another GHOSTBUSTERS movie, but it never came together (with rumors of disdain among the principals and economic infeasibility as the primary...

Cage talks sequels

Posted 18 years ago

Considering how many movies he makes, it’s a little surprising that Nic Cage doesn’t have more “franchise” characters. But there’s one he’s intent on turning into one, regardless of who cares about seeing it. Comic fan Cage seems certain the...

Where’s the Kombat?

Posted 18 years ago

Scorpion, Subzero and the various fighting freaks of the MORTAL KOMBAT game series are getting ready to mix it up with the heroes and villains of the DC Comics universe, but it’s been a while since they’ve taken on flesh...

Bruce on tour!

Posted 18 years ago

In case you thought that headline might mean Spielberg’s famous shark or the iconic martial artist, it actually refers to our favorite Deadite fighter himself, Bruce Campbell. The Chin directs (and plays) himself in the horror-comedy MY NAME IS BRUCE,...

Sommers on Tarzan

Posted 18 years ago

How do you go from Guillermo del Toro to the guy who pummeled the collective scrotum of cinema with VAN HELSING? That’s the question you might ask when you learn that director and MUMMY resurrector Stephen Sommers is swinging into...

Living Ninja Turtles?

Posted 18 years ago

Those famous half-shell heroes certainly have made the media rounds — from comic book to videogames, action figures, live-action feature, cartoon series, CG-animation, and now… back to live-action? That would seem to be the case, according to TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA...

Schweiger’s a Bastard

Posted 18 years ago

Joining last week’s flurry of INGLORIOUS BASTARDS casting (Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Paul Rust and Chrisoph Waltz) comes yet another somewhat familiar chiseled face: hunky German superstar Til Schweiger (KING ARTHUR, DRIVEN). Schweiger and his heroic jaw will be part...

Floating heads!

Posted 18 years ago

You’ve probably seen countless unimaginative movie posters featuring the looming oversized craniums of famous actors, their huge facial surfaces used to promote a film without telling you much else about it. This technique is unofficially referred to as “floating heads”....

30 Bunnies of Night

Posted 18 years ago

You like bunnies. You like vampires. You only have half a minute to spare. You’re in luck! Those crazy cartoon rabbits are at it again, this time with the condensed version of the bloodsuckers-in-Alaska terror tale 30 DAYS OF NIGHT....

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