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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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More movies in Mass?

Hollywood is slowly bleeding into other parts of the country, including my own stomping grounds here in Massachusetts. As I mentioned last year, a plan was being kicked around to build a moviemaking complex at a local decommissioned Naval Air...
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New Hellboy 2 pic

Hey, meet Hellboy’s friend and co-worker Johann. He may not look like much, but that’s just because he’s a sentient cloud in a humanoid containment suit. He’s a good guy, though. If a bit gassy. In Guillermo del Toro’s HELLBOY...
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Imhotep is Zartan?

Looks like director Stephen Sommers is bringing back his two-time bald baddie from the MUMMY flicks for a part in the apparently unavoidable live-action G.I. JOE movie. According to IESB, perennial villain Arnold Vosloo is now part of the expanding...
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Monster Slayer caught

This year’s Sundance festival hasn’t exactly been aflame with big sales, but the smaller Slamdance seems to be full of genre treasures. Anchor Bay has grabbed up the low-budget horror flick JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER, and will apparently give it...
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The Aerial trailer

This one just looked too interesting not to share. Argentinian filmmaker Esteban Sapir’s indie film THE AERIAL (aka LA ANTENA) appears to be a unique blend of Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS, some Murnau, a dash of Guy Maddin, a little Orwell,...
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Funny Games clips

The thriller FUNNY GAMES has recently been unspooling before Sundance crowds (to reportedly mixed response). While I can’t personally comment on the film’s quality, I can tell you that it has Naomi Watts and torture. That could very well make...
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Bunny Pirates 3

Those spastic rabbits sure are tireless! Possibly because they are merely simplistic drawings animated with Flash, but still, credit where it’s due. The bunnies are back with a condensed retelling of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END. I have...
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Woody and Buzz in 3D

The world-famous action figures (they’re NOT dolls!!!) of the TOY STORY movies are making their return in 2010, and they’re doing it in more ways than one. How about three? Yes, the Pixar-defining franchise is the latest to take advantage...
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Norton talks Hulk

Up until William Hurt opened his cake-hole the other day, Marvel had done a pretty impressive job keeping things stealthy on their upcoming revamp THE INCREDIBLE HULK, surely no small feat with a main character who’s eight feet tall and...
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Romero docu trailer

Director George Romero is basically the guy who defined the zombie movie genre as we know it. And now director Rusty Nails is defining the guy who defined the zombie movie genre as we know it. Nails (his real name,...
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