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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

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Battle in Seattle stuff

Considering the high-profile cast, I’m a little ashamed for not being more aware of BATTLE IN SEATTLE, which will open the 34th Seattle International Film Festival on May 22. The movie stars Charlize Theron, Ray Liotta, “It Boy” Channing Tatum,...
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Gore Police on duty

To put it bluntly: holy crap. I thought the preview for THE MACHINE GIRL was loopy hyperviolence, but this makes it look like Disney film. Twitch has the exclusive extended trailer for the somewhat self-explanatory TOKYO GORE POLICE, and I’ll...
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North Wind blows in

Davis Entertainment (no relation) has brought ALIEN vs. PREDATOR and I, ROBOT to life, but now they’re chilling in the frozen wasteland of… Los Angeles. The production company has grabbed Boom! Studios’ new post-apocalyptic comic series NORTH WIND, and has...
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Disney toon schedule

There are only a few years left before The Rapture, the Mayan calendar countdown or the Singularity occurs, and the Mouse House is determined to fill that time with as many animated features as possible. Disney (including Pixar) has announced...
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Valkyrie gets delayed

What’s a good time of year to release a WWII thriller that focuses only on the Germans? If you said February, you’d be correct. For the moment. Bryan Singer’s fact-based action film VALKYRIE has been bounced from its intended October...
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Prom Night frights

I don’t know how scary or entertaining the impending PROM NIGHT remake will be, but at least the promotional gimmick is both. The update of the 1980 slasher flick (which starred scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen, of...
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Ackles is Bloody

Actor Jensen Ackles must’ve been bummed that his TV brother went off to do a horror remake, so he decided to follow in his footsteps. While SUPERNATURAL’s Winchester brother Jared Padalecki is being hounded by hockey-masked hacker Jason Voorhees in...
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More Wright stuff

Although I’d much prefer to get a new movie from him, say, every six months, Edgar Wright’s stuff is worth waiting for regardless of how long it takes. He’s been relatively idle since the brilliant HOT FUZZ, but only when...
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