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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

Help the Brain Trust!

Posted 18 years ago

Want to help out a friend? You may not know Paul Prischman, but you probably own something he put his heart and soul into — he’s spent years producing DVDs like SPIDER-MAN 2, the ALIEN QUADRILOGY, MONSTER HOUSE, AMERICAN GANGSTER,...

Disney does comics

Posted 18 years ago

Disney must be running low on theme park rides to turn into FX-bloated feature films. The Mouse House is launching Kingdom Comics, with the purpose of developing graphic novels (formerly known as “comics”) for film adaptation. One of the only...

Brits have big Chest

Posted 18 years ago

SEXY BEAST writers Louis Melles and David Scinto are back with another Brit gangster movie called 44 INCH CHEST. I’m not entirely sure how the title plays into the plot, but it’s a valid enough excuse to post a photo...

Spidey replacement?

Posted 18 years ago

UPDATE: Sony told Coming Soon that “there is no truth to the rumor that the studio is looking to replace Tobey Maguire in the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in future “Spider-Man” movies.” That’s the official statement… but that doesn’t mean...

Yet more Hulkness!

Posted 18 years ago

If the intent of all the recent online clips for THE INCREDIBLE HULK was to make the movie seem pretty badass, I gotta admit it’s working. I’m impressed by the realism of the interaction between Hulk and (what seems to...

Choke trailer!

Posted 18 years ago

I didn’t think much of the novel CHOKE (sorry, Palahniuk maniacs), and yet I’m curious about the movie based on the book. That’s largely due to the people involved, namely the great Sam Rockwell, Kelly MacDonald and Anjelica Huston. Plus...

RIP Sydney Pollack

Posted 18 years ago

A veteran filmmaker has left us: Sydney Pollack has passed away at 73. As a director, Pollack was known for “message movies” and was nominated for several Oscars. He won the Academy Award for OUT OF AFRICA, one of numerous...

Space Chimps poster

Posted 18 years ago

As is now the standard, the summer season brings a new group of computer-animated creatures that, sadly, don’t come from Pixar. Will SPACE CHIMPS be a breakout, or just another innocuous, moderately amusing but otherwise unremarkable entry to throw on...

Downey is Hefner?

Posted 18 years ago

He’s successfully done the jet-setting (and jet-building) playboy as IRON MAN’s Tony Stark — is Robert Downey Jr. trading in his metallic threads for a smoking jacket to publish hundreds of bared breasts? Downey has supposedly received the stamp of...

Dirty Harry is dead

Posted 18 years ago

Alas, if you were hoping to see San Francisco’s notoriously trigger-happy detective ventilate perpetrators with his infamous handgun once more, it wasn’t meant to be. At the press conference for the Cannes premiere of his new film CHANGELING (reviewed RIGHT...

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