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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

Rogen talks Hornet!

Posted 18 years ago

Our man ‘Sturdy’ was hanging out with funnyguy Seth Rogen on the set of his upcoming madcap mall-cop comedy OBSERVE AND REPORT, and (gently) squeezed him for a bit of info on his planned movie of pulp character THE GREEN...

Smart zombies?

Posted 18 years ago

Horror fanatics and Romero purists freaked out when they first experienced “fast zombies” courtesy of the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake (or the feral “Rage carriers” of 28 DAYS LATER). How will they feel about zombies with an above-Bub IQ?...

McG talks Terminator

Posted 18 years ago

I gotta admit that I don’t really understand some of the instinctive vitriol leveled toward director McG. CHARLIE’S ANGELS was amusingly preposterous eye-candy (though the sequel belabored the point), and WE ARE MARSHALL showed he can at least tell a...

Kane & Lynch & Willis

Posted 18 years ago

When I first heard they were making a movie based on the videogame KANE & LYNCH: DEAD MEN (before it even hit shelves), I sort of expected a moderately budgeted adaptation on the level of HITMAN. After all, it was...

Bana does comedy?

Posted 18 years ago

We’ve seen Eric Bana’s intensity in movies like MUNICH, BLACK HAWK DOWN and that one where he turned green, but can he also bring the funny? He should — after all, he started out Down Under on sketch shows like...

More travel to 2012

Posted 18 years ago

Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster epic (or possibly “epic disaster”, considering the budget is rumored to be near $200 million) is drawing more actors into its vortex of sci-fi devastation. The thriller, called 2012, has lured decidedly sexy female specimen Thandie...

Know about Knowing

Posted 18 years ago

The sci-fi thriller KNOWING has been kicking around Hollywood for years — Rod Lurie (THE LAST CASTLE) and DONNIE DARKO guy Richard Kelly were previously attached to direct before DARK CITY helmer Alex Proyas took over. It’s got a nifty...

MTV Awards sneak clips

Posted 18 years ago

Time to Wake the Dead

Posted 18 years ago

After toiling in comics for a decade on various horror titles and SPAWN books, writer Steve Niles became a hot Hollywood commodity when Sam Raimi plunked down a heavy sack of cash for the vampires-in-Alaska tale 30 DAYS OF NIGHT,...