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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

New Hulk spots

Posted 18 years ago

We haven’t been assaulted by quite as much marketing for THE INCREDIBLE HULK as other summer movies, but I’m digging the tone of it. The flick seems evocative of both the comic and the popular 70s TV show, following lonely...

Tropic Thunder redband

Posted 18 years ago

I’m gonna make a daring prediction: TROPIC THUNDER will be very funny. That may be jumping the gun a bit — after all, I only have this new R-rated trailer as a basis for that assumption. But head through that...

Clooney kills Goats

Posted 18 years ago

George Clooney has a certain dreamy appeal, but can he slay animals just by looking at them? We’ll find out in THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, based on Jon Ronson’s book about the US military’s purported flirtation with the...

City of Ember trailer

Posted 18 years ago

I suppose if Terry Gilliam gorged himself on Skittles and Slurpees while watching CITY OF LOST CHILDREN and then made a kids movie, it might look a bit like CITY OF EMBER. The movie comes from MONSTER HOUSE director Gil...

Joe Dante at Bat

Posted 18 years ago

Veteran director Joe Dante has an impressive genre filmography, but he’s determined to get a few more on there. The guy who brought us classics both major and minor (PIRANHA, THE HOWLING, GREMLINS, INNERSPACE, MATINEE, THE ‘BURBS, EXPLORERS, etc.) has...

A-Team casting?

Posted 18 years ago

John Singleton’s movie update of 80s TV do-gooders for hire THE A-TEAM is due in theaters next summer, and casting names are currently being kicked around. First up, Latino Review says that none other than Bruce Willis is being pursued...

Day-Lewis counts Nine?

Posted 18 years ago

Rob Marshall’s all-star musical NINE lost one recent Oscar-winner… but is it gaining another? Though not officially confirmed, word is that Daniel Day-Lewis will ditch the ‘stache and flat-brimmed hat and two-step in as a replacement for the departed Javier...

Miller’s Buck Rogers?

Posted 18 years ago

UPDATE: The short answer to the question posed by the headline and the below article is: nope. Read a slightly longer answer RIGHT HERE at io9. May 8, 2008 — Comic guy turned comic movie director Frank Miller is still...

The Gate late sequel

Posted 18 years ago

We were the first to tell you about a possible remake of the 80s horror treat THE GATE, and while our report wasn’t completely accurate, there’s still more backyard hellspawn on the way. H20 Motion Pictures is making THE GATE:...

Cage is Bad Lt.

Posted 18 years ago

If I hadn’t seen it in Variety, I’m not sure I’d believe this. I mean, when we first heard about a remake of BAD LIEUTENANT, I just assumed it would end up going direct-to-vid if it even got made. But...

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