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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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Garner gets Ghosts

Posted 19 years ago

Although her last romantic comedy CATCH AND RELEASE made a quick trip to the single-copy shelf at video stores, the lovely and lithe Jennifer Garner is giving the genre another shot. Because despite five years of ALIAS (and ELEKTRA and...

New Punisher peeps

Posted 19 years ago

Director Lexi Alexander has her new vigilante (ROME’s Ray Stevenson) and her new villain… which she isn’t sharing just yet. But she does have a few other familiar faces for the next PUNISHER flick (subtitled WAR ZONE, for the moment)....

What is Eden Log?

Posted 19 years ago

I don’t know if it’s just because I gravitate to indie and foreign cinema, or the fact that I’ve been spending so much time in the retro dystopia of the videogame BIOSHOCK, but this French sci-fi film EDEN LOG looks...

Kelly is in the Darko

Posted 19 years ago

Richard Kelly only has a couple of finished films under his belt, the brain-slapping Mobius strip DONNIE DARKO and the as-yet-unleashed SOUTHLAND TALES (plus the DOMINO screenplay), but he’s already going into business for himself. Kelly has founded Darko Entertainment,...

Trek: Saldana is Uhura

Posted 19 years ago

JJ Abrams is assembling the crew for the next (first? last?) Enterprise voyage in his prequel (reboot? time travel story?) of STAR TREK, and he’s found his communications officer, Lt. Uhura. Intensely sexy exotic blend Zoe Saldana will be answering...

New Kung Fu director

Posted 19 years ago

UPDATE _ Variety has confirmed the Coming Soon report below about Max Makowski directing KUNG FU for Warner Bros. After snatching rocks and taming the West on the 70s show KUNG FU (and again on some made-for-TV movies, and then...

Punisher vs. Paddy?

Posted 19 years ago

UPDATE: It looks like the offer to Considine has been retracted, as Lionsgate/Marvel’s first choice for Jigsaw has changed their mind and accepted the part. Now we just need to hear who that is… Too bad, I would’ve liked to...

From Potter to Bond?

Posted 19 years ago

What’s a young actor to do once he finishes with a colossally successful franchise like HARRY POTTER? How about move to another globally recognized character? There were some minor mumblings a few years back that boywizard Daniel Radcliffe was being...

Preacher directors?

Posted 19 years ago

For years, it seemed that God would return to walk the Earth before a live-action version of the outstanding comic series PREACHER would be seen by human eyes. But we may just see adaptation before resurrection after all. HBO is...

Romero’s Diary: Dead

Posted 19 years ago

Zombie maestro George Romero’s DIARY OF THE DEAD is playing at the Toronto Film Festival, and his fifth undead film seems to be receiving generally positive word of mouth. Unfortunately there’s no telling when you might actually see it yourself....

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