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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

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Gondry talks Rewind

Posted 19 years ago

In writer-director Michel Gondry’s upcoming madcap comedy BE KIND REWIND, Jack Black and Mos Def play guys forced to re-enact famous movies as replacements for damaged videos, only to spawn a cult following. There’s a great article and interview with...

Solomon Kane’s cast

Posted 19 years ago

Pulp author and CONAN creator Robert E. Howard has another adventurer coming to life in SOLOMON KANE. The classic leather-bound evil-fighter, whose style was liberally swiped by Stephen Sommers for his wretched VAN HELSING, will be played by James Purefoy...

Skeet steals stuff

Posted 19 years ago

Much like Peter Facinelli and Leelee Sobieski, Skeet Ulrich has learned the hard lesson that looking a bit like a better and more famous actor isn’t quite enough for an auspicious career. Fortunately for him, the moderate success of the...

Ice Cube as Baracus?

Posted 19 years ago

We got the news before the holidays that John Singleton was resurrecting the action-cheese TV series THE A-TEAM for the big screen. Is he bringing one of his boyz (from the Hood) along for the update? The immediate assumption was...

Winslet for Kidman

Posted 19 years ago

Since Nicole Kidman has opted to fill her schedule with downloading offspring, Kate Winslet has stepped up to the table. The A-list Brit (five times Oscar nominated!) will now star in THE READER, director Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s...

A taste of Trance

Posted 19 years ago

Somehow this one slid by us during the holiday season — odd, considering it involves our own beautiful bastard John “Arrow” Fallon! In case you forgot webmaster/filmmaker Arrow’s script TRANCE recently got snapped up for production, and was already shot...

Doomsday in March

Posted 19 years ago

For a good while, we’ve been hearing that DOOMSDAY was coming. Not the actual end of the world (which is still scheduled for 2012 per various calendar-counters and religious kooks), but the post-apocalyptic action flick from writer-director Neil Marshall, who...

Living Dorks director

Posted 19 years ago

UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter now officially confirms the below STYD scoop from a month ago. December 10, 2007 — The recent German teen zomcom NIGHT OF THE LIVING DORKS is on the way as an American remake, and it looks...

Gilliam’s Good Omens?

Posted 19 years ago

For about a decade, director Terry Gilliam has been trying to get an adaptation of GOOD OMENS rolling forward. But if you’ve seen the documentary LOST IN LA MANCHA (which I highly recommend), you have a general understanding of the...