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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

Doomsday site live

Posted 19 years ago

I was already jazzed for DOOMSDAY, Neil Marshall’s follow-up to his DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT, but I’m even more excited now that the postapocalyptic aesthetic he’s aiming for seems similar to one of my all-time favorite flicks, THE ROAD...

Dark Knight teaser!

Posted 19 years ago

Here it is, Batmaniacs! The teaser trailer for THE DARK KNIGHT. (The official one, not that amateurish clip with the falling cards that hundreds of readers previously pointed us to.) And you didn’t even have to travel to Comic Con...

Depp’s Dark Shadows

Posted 19 years ago

Wow, some news that’s not from Comic Con! And… some odd news at that. How about Johnny Depp as… a vampire? Depp will star in a Warner Bros. feature film based on the old 60s shock-soap DARK SHADOWS, slipping on...

Trek: Spocks, poster

Posted 19 years ago

Even with all the attention on JJ Abrams’ mysterious monster movie (now called COLOSSUS?) — which he’s just producing, by the way — we haven’t lost sight of his other high-profile project, the reboot/prequel of STAR TREK. And the movie...

Guy Ritchie keeps game

Posted 19 years ago

This was probably an assumption while he was creating the book, but gangster virtuoso Guy Ritchie (SNATCH) will helm the feature adaptation of his own comic THE GAMEKEEPER. Part of Virgin’s comic line (which includes works by other Hollywood names...

Beowulf trailer

Posted 19 years ago

Wow. I’m not sure what I was expecting from Robert Zemeckis’ “performance capture” movie BEOWULF, but it wasn’t something quite so… real. The upcoming computer-animated movie, which should be pretty goddamn astonishing in 3-D, is a take on the old...

Hulk vs. the Leader?

Posted 19 years ago

Hmm, this is the first cause for concern in regards to THE INCREDIBLE HULK. Well, besides the casting of Liv Tyler. The new HULK flick seems to be heading down the Overloaded Villain path that made SPIDEY 3 (and other...

Watchmen official

Posted 19 years ago

Most of this won’t be news for anyone who’s been following the buzz in the past few weeks, but the WATCHMEN cast has been officially announced, and most of the of the previously rumored names were indeed correct: Billy Crudup...

Jonah Hex rides

Posted 19 years ago

Is the Western coming back in style? I’m not completely certain, but comic book properties are still plenty hot — especially this week, when thousands of humans and other bipeds descend on San Diego for Comic Con (while the rest...

Southland Tales date

Posted 19 years ago

Holy shelf-life, it feels like I’ve been writing about SOUTHLAND TALES since shortly after I came out of the womb. But now instead of talking about it, we’ll finally get to see Richard Kelly’s long-awaited follow-up to DONNIE DARKO. TALES...

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