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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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Potter flies to 2009

Posted 18 years ago

Hope that teaser trailer for HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE didn’t get you too excited to see the next chapter of the student wizard… because you’ll have to wait a while longer to see it. The movie’s release is...

Neeson rushes in

Posted 18 years ago

Liam Neeson likes to mix in “prestige” movies when he’s not teaching ninja techniques to Bruce Wayne, cutting up stupid robots or killing the shit out of European kidnappers. Looks like it’s time to get serious again. Neeson will rejoin...

Conan the rewritten

Posted 18 years ago

Everyone’s favorite Cimmerian death-machine is experiencing a resurgence in popularity, thanks to top-selling videogames and comic series. So where’s his big return to theaters? Still wandering the Hyborian Age in search of a script, that’s where. A new pair of...

Valkyrie moves again

Posted 18 years ago

If you thought Valentine’s Day was an odd holiday to release a WWII thriller about German officers plotting to kill Hitler, does Christmastime feel more suitable? That’s now when Bryan Singer’s VALKYRIE is slotted to open — MGM has shifted...

MMA Warrior cometh

Posted 18 years ago

Shootin’ at the walls of heartache, bang bang… After a false start, some bad blood and a studio shift, the mixed martial arts film WARRIOR is back in the cage and preparing to pummel. Director Gavin O’Connor has been patiently...

Death Race clip

Posted 18 years ago

Looking forward to hyper-edited vehicular action? You don’t have to wait until DEATH RACE opens next week — you can catch a glimpse of shakily directed quick-cut explosions and fleeting shots of star Jason Statham already, courtesy of IGN. For...

Zak and the Argonauts

Posted 18 years ago

When writer (and occasional director) Zak Penn isn’t dealing with superheroes (X-MEN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK) or shuffling poker (THE GRAND), he’s dipping into the popular myths of public domain. Penn will peck at a new big-budget tale of THE ARGONAUTS...

Cruise out, Jolie in

Posted 18 years ago

Whaaaaat? It’s not that uncommon for a project to go from one high-paid star to another, but it’s rare for the star to change gender (without makeup or other procedure). But now Angelina Jolie is stepping in for Tom Cruise...

Billy Bob on Elm St?

Posted 18 years ago

So we know that Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company has plans to remake Wes Craven’s horror classic A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. The entire movie would get the facelift that an appropriate budget would provide, including a new dream-dwelling...

More The Road pics

Posted 18 years ago

If you weren’t sure that the upcoming Viggo Mortensen movie THE ROAD was set in a post-apocalyptic world, these new pics should help make that point quite clear. In the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bleak book, The Vig takes his...

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