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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

McSpaced still on?

Posted 18 years ago

We heard a few months back that Fox and gloss director McG intended to remake the brilliant British comedy series SPACED for American audiences. And while any fan of the original was praying to the pagan entities that this notion...

No Hell for young Page

Posted 18 years ago

Newly A-listed youngster Ellen Page was gathering projects like the proverbial rolling snowball, but that avalanche has subsided a bit — she’s suddenly no longer involved with the previously announced DRAG ME TO HELL, director Sam Raimi’s anticipated return to...

New Iron Man trailer

Posted 18 years ago

I’ve drawn some fire for proclaiming that IRON MAN is my own most anticipated movie of the summer (particularly impressive since I’ve never had interest in the comic character), but this new trailer is certainly an argument in my defense....

New Line is no more

Posted 18 years ago

This probably won’t be a huge shock to anyone who’s heard about their ongoing legal matters surrounding all things Tolkein (or anyone who suspected THE GOLDEN COMPASS might be a ship-sinking iceberg), but New Line Cinema is officially no longer...

Love Guru trailer

Posted 18 years ago

Like mom used to tell me: “If you can’t find anything good to say, don’t say anything or I’ll take this ping-pong paddle and smack your ass raw.” I suppose I can say something good: Meagan Good. But without any...

Step Brothers trailer

Posted 18 years ago

Just when it seemed like Will Ferrell was at the point of oversaturation (perhaps you’ve seen a small bit of SEMI-PRO promotion around the internets), he goes and makes something funny. Or at least the trailer for STEP BROTHERS seems...

Superhero poster

Posted 18 years ago

I treat chimp-simple parody movies much like slaughterhouses, emergency rooms, Oprah and domestic beer: I’d prefer to avoid them. Initially I thought SUPERHERO MOVIE might be different, since director Craig Mazin already successfully (in my opinion) handled spandex satire with...

Get Smart trailer 2

Posted 18 years ago

This summer, Steve Carell steps into Don Adams’ shoe-phone to play Agent 86, a blundering operative for CONTROL battling the evil forces of KAOS, with plenty of help from blind luck, competent colleagues and an arsenal of occasionally functional gadgets....

Outlander pics

Posted 18 years ago

I remember reading about OUTLANDER back when the whole Viking onslaught first started, and while movies like PATHFINDER and BEOWULF have already come and gone, this one is finally getting around to invading. The nifty premise is like an Old...

No digital Indy 4?

Posted 18 years ago

Is your local theater still doing things the old-fashioned way, and hasn’t converted to digital projection yet? Don’t sweat it, you’ll still be able to catch INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL when it hits in a...

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