Dave Davis - JoBlo

Columnist

4,286 Articles Published

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

Spaced gets McSpaced

Posted 19 years ago

We learned a couple of days ago that filmmaker McG is developing an American version of the brilliant UK television show SPACED. And the creators are none too happy about it. For the record, those original SPACED masterminds are the...

Clock Tower maker

Posted 19 years ago

Director Eric Valette must have made some satisfying scares with his remake of the Japanese phone spooker ONE MISSED CALL — the Weinsteins have reportedly brought him in to adapt the videogame CLOCK TOWER. The movie is is apparently based...

Scotts fling some Poe

Posted 19 years ago

A famous work of macabre writer Edgar Allen Poe is getting dragged into the 21st century, and Ridley and Tony Scott are helping dispose of the body. The siblings’ Scott Free production company is making TELL-TALE, a modernized take on...

Joker’s message

Posted 19 years ago

For a couple of weeks, we were following the slow deterioration of the Joker’s carved pumpkin, which turned out to be a countdown to today — Halloween — when the Clown Prince revealed his latest plot: a scavenger hunt that...

Joker O’lantern rots

Posted 19 years ago

UPDATE 2: For those (like me) who can’t scavenge, this Wiki page is doing a good job of updating all the Joker’s clues with answers… UPDATE: The pumpkin has disappeared, and now the Joker has a job for you. See...

Wanted trailer!

Posted 19 years ago

I have to confess that, artwork and high-concept aside, I didn’t think much of Mark Millar’s comic WANTED, which features a “hero” who unfeelingly murders innocents, proudly talks about raping women, and spends the end of the book actually berating...

Strike movie updates

Posted 19 years ago

You might’ve heard about the impending Hollywood talent strikes (alternately known as The Strike of the Apocalypse and The Strike of Doom and Dread). Basically the current contracts for writers (followed by actors and directors) are ending, and they want...

Bucket List poster

Posted 19 years ago

Hey, don’t Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman look happy? Nope, Jack isn’t showing off his black DEPARTED dildo to his co-star. And it’s not because they’re A-list actors who make more money in a day than you’ll see in a...

More get in Game

Posted 19 years ago

Overlooked in the announcement for CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE was a whole bunch of official casting news for destructive duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s sci-fi tech thriller GAME. The flick stars Gerard Butler as the top gamer in a...

Crank 2 official

Posted 19 years ago

The loopy action flick CRANK had so much insane velocity it practically made it into orbit. And now filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are gonna try to knock it out of the solar system with a sequel. Yep, it’s...

Load more articles