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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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Weta heads Home

Posted 18 years ago

You might know the name of FX company Weta from their work on small films like… well, Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS and KING KONG. But they’ll bring the scale down a few notches for an indie horror flick...

My Bloody poster

Posted 18 years ago

The remake of MY BLOODY VALENTINE will run a deep red. Literally — the blood will have depth (or the sense of it) thanks to the flick being shot in 3-D, so expect body parts and arterial spray to come...

District 9 viral sites

Posted 18 years ago

When the live-action HALO movie got stuffed back into Master Chief’s locker, that project’s intended director Neill Blomkamp moved on to a secretive movie called DISTRICT 9. The sci-fi project was announced with Peter Jackson producing and WETA providing FX,...

New Bond theme from…

Posted 18 years ago

Once the opening scene of QUANTUM OF SOLACE is over and silhouettes of pistols and naked chicks dance across the screen for three and a half minutes, what kind of music will accompany those images? It’ll be none other than...

Universal Bastards?

Posted 18 years ago

Does Quentin Tarantino’s WWII flick INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (or, alternately, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) have a home? So it would seem. As we heard a few weeks ago, QT’s endlessly-in-the-making war tale was on the prowl for a partner to assist the (shallow...

Back to La Mancha?

Posted 18 years ago

Anyone who saw the tragic documentary LOST IN LA MANCHA knows of director Terry Gilliam’s disastrous difficulties with his labor of love, which was even more damned than usual for the guy with infamous misfortune. Even as Gilliam cobbles together...

Friday the 13th poster

Posted 18 years ago

Will the Platinum Dunes revamp of famous slasher series FRIDAY THE 13th be “safe” for fans of the original franchise? Will the followers of Jason be able to swallow an all-new approach to the complexities of a maniac who chops...

Tony Jaa is MIA?

Posted 18 years ago

If you were looking forward to the skull-splintering action of ONG-BAK 2, you might have to wait a while longer. It seems that acrobatic Thai whirlwind Tony Jaa has pulled a Dave Chappelle, and just up and disappeared in the...

Underworld 3 pics

Posted 18 years ago

Is Rhona Mitra an acceptable substitute for Kate Beckinsale? After seeing her stomp ass in DOOMSDAY, I’ll vote to the affirmative. Mitra picks up the sword to play the female lead in the UNDERWORLD prequel RISE OF THE LYCANS, which...

Watchmen website

Posted 18 years ago

Just in case Mike’s report from Comic Con wasn’t enough for ya, the official site for WATCHMEN has sprung to life on the data tubes as a small consolation to those would couldn’t make it to San Diego. In addition...

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