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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

Speed Racer in 3D

Posted 18 years ago

There was a time that lenticular imagery was such a “cutting edge” gimmick, they’d slap it on any flat surface that might be near eye-level — cereal boxes, trading cards, comic book covers, VHS sleeves, etc. That novelty is retro-hip...

This cast is Legion

Posted 18 years ago

It was announced ages ago, and the premise seems slightly reminiscent of THE PROPHECY (with perhaps a dash of PREACHER), but the action-horror flick LEGION is finally rolling, and with a reasonably impressive cast. The Screen Gems flick stars Paul...

Get Smart poster 2

Posted 18 years ago

Could GET SMART be Steve Carell’s first viable franchise? (And no, I’m purposely not counting EVAN ALMIGHTY.) I hope so — the guy is certainly worthy of a feature set all his own, even if it is an update of...

Bangkok trailer

Posted 18 years ago

If a remake only retains the original movie’s title and setting, is it still considered a remake? I wondered that as I watched the trailer for BANGKOK DANGEROUS, the Pang Brothers’ update of their own 1999 hitman thriller. The original...

New Redbelt trailer

Posted 18 years ago

I’m a considerable fan of the Mamet (particularly the underappreciated SPARTAN), but I skipped the first REDBELT trailer when I was told it was basically a condensed version of the movie. I hope this one is a little less revealing...

Radha the Surrogate

Posted 18 years ago

Aussie actress Radha Mitchell has no fear of genre material — she’s wrestled shadow creatures, nocturnal aliens and a giant croc, so a comic book is certainly within her boundaries. Mitchell is joining Bruce Willis in THE SURROGATES, a sci-fi...

My Sassy Girl trailer

Posted 18 years ago

After years of multiple kidnappings, cougar fighting and other absurdity on 24, could this be the part that steers superblonde Elisha Cuthbert away from her increasing proximity to Tara Reid territory and up the feature film hotlist? In Gold Circle’s...

Robots get animated

Posted 18 years ago

Disney is giving another shot at the whole “performance capture” style of computer animation with a new flick called CALLING ALL ROBOTS. The project comes from X2 and SUPERMAN RETURNS co-writer Mike Dougherty, who’s teaming with Robert Zemeckis’ company ImageMovers...

Tobey feels Afterburn

Posted 18 years ago

We don’t know if Tobey Maguire will spin his webby wrist-jizz again as SPIDER-MAN, but he’s still perusing the comic book shelves. Peter Parker’s alter-ego will produce and presumably star in an adaptation of the new comic series AFTERBURN, from...