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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

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Dark is Rising trailer

I’m wondering when this latest deluge of fantasy films will start to trickle down. A few more expensive failures ought to do it, but studios are still grabbing multi-book series off the shelves for feature treatment, so I guess it...
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A glimpse of Indy

It’s almost a year before INDIANA JONES AND THE QUEST FOR WHATEVER arrives in theaters, and probably several months before we even see an official teaser trailer, but the studio is trying to satisfy our jones for Jones with occasional...
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Young Indy on DVD

While the fourth whip-cracking INDIANA JONES adventure continues to lurch forward on rickety knees, his own younger self is finally making an appearance on DVD. Paramount has let the news slip forth like a fearsome snake that the YOUNG INDIANA...
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Wolverine update

Although the X-MEN already took their last stand (and kind of a sad one), will we still see more of Marvel’s mutants next year anyway? Maybe! Sort of! The current buzz is that Fox is keen to get WOLVERINE’s solo...
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Trailers from Hell

I found the faux trailers to be perhaps the most satisfying part of the GRINDHOUSE experience, and I hope that Eli Roth makes good on his intentions of delivering a feature comprised entirely of fabricated previews. And I’m not alone...
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Watchmen’s Doctor?

I’m still holding my breath that the feature of WATCHMEN isn’t struck by some kind of Gilliam-esque tragedy, but it seems to actually be edging closer to production. A handful of actors are rumored to be strong contenders in the...
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1-18-08 trailer!

You probably saw this teaser if you were one of the millions who caught TRANSFORMERS this past weekend, but you probably still don’t know quite what it was you saw. Or maybe you have some idea by now, since everyone...
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Hitman teaser poster

Unlike a lot of Hollywood productions, HITMAN is blasting through the process — it started shooting in March and will hit (ahem) theaters in October. Is it the efficiency of the mostly-European filmmakers, or are they just in a hurry...
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Iron Man update

We still have a long time to wait until IRON MAN blasts our collective faces with repulsor rays, but director Jon Favreau is keeping fans up to speed over at the flick’s official MySpace site. The movie is currently in...
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Disney’s Frog villain

Normally I wouldn’t bother writing about voice talent joining an animated Disney feature, but I’ll do it today for a couple of reasons: A) Hollywood basically took the week off and news is scarce, and B) Keith David is cool....
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