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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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Watch: Robot Bastard

Posted 19 years ago

Since there won’t be any substantial movie news until early 2008, I figured I’d dig up a few independent short films to keep you occupied until then. I was a big fan of Rob Schrab’s wonderfully surreal and violent comic...

Drillbit Taylor poster

Posted 19 years ago

Owen Wilson had kind of a rough year, but he’s kicking his way back to theaters soon, with a boost from Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen. Wilson stars in a new high-concept comedy called DRILLBIT TAYLOR (which gets points for...

Berg digs Dune

Posted 19 years ago

I never got into DUNE — the book was impenetrable to me as a kid, and David Lynch’s adaptation was just a bit too f*cked-up for a young zealot of more simplistic STAR WARS style sci-fi, and I’ve just never...

Kreuk kicks as Chun Li

Posted 19 years ago

Exotic SMALLVILLE starlet (and longtime obsession) Kristin Kreuk is kicking her way out of that franchise… and into another one. Kreuk is providing her exquisite lips and taut young frame and enchanting smile and eerily seductive eyes (oh right… the...

Hurt talks Indy 4

Posted 19 years ago

Like everyone else associated with INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL IN THE SKULL WITH THE WHIP AND STUFF, veteran actor John Hurt is obligated to keep his trap shut, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s 100% compliant....

The Ruins trailer

Posted 19 years ago

Author Scott Smith finally followed up his dark drama A SIMPLE PLAN with a horror tale called THE RUINS, and if you haven’t read the book, any surprises about the film’s “villain” are revealed in the new teaser. If you’re...

Raimi directs Hell

Posted 19 years ago

After the forgettable mess that was SPIDER-MAN 3, it’s nice to hear that director Sam Raimi is returning to the sort of material that launched his career. Raimi will cause some low-budget carnage with DRAG ME TO HELL, a supernatural...

Mirage Man trailer

Posted 19 years ago

While the major studios spend hundreds of millions to bring comic book superheroes to the screen, others are taking a more lo-fi approach to masked heroics. Case in point: the Chilean martial arts flick MIRAGE MAN. You don’t see many...

Forbidden poster

Posted 19 years ago

After many years of anticipation, martial arts fans are finally seeing masters Jet Li and Jackie Chan together on the big screen in THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM. Though you might expect a little more fanfare about such a union of chopsockey...

Hellboy II pics

Posted 19 years ago

Just yesterday I mentioned my anticipation for next year’s HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY — if only to see what kind of magic director Guillermo del Toro has up his prodigious sleeve this time. Now IGN has some fresh snaps...

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