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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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No Sopranos movie?

Posted 19 years ago

If you’re still processing the other night’s abrupt finale of HBO’s mobster series THE SOPRANOS and thinking maybe you’d get more clarification in a feature film at some point, looks like that idea could be taking the long nap with...

Make Woo movie for $

Posted 19 years ago

Most action movie fans are familiar with the works of John Woo, just as most modern action filmmakers have been heavily influenced by his slo-mo twin-pistol style. And although Woo and frequent collaborator Chow Yun-Fat never got to make a...

Echo! (Echo!)

Posted 19 years ago

You have to give Jesse Bradford credit, he has a pretty impressive set of accomplishments. He fought in Iwo Jima, got stalked by a high school hottie/nutjob, figured out how to stop time, hacked alongside a pixie-haired Angelina Jolie, and...

Die Hard w/ bunnies

Posted 19 years ago

Love them movie bunnies. If you didn’t know, for some time now a few of your favorite flicks have been re-enacted by cartoon rabbits (JAWS remains my personal fave). These animated mammals condense modern classics to key scenes, and deliver...

Steve Martin hates us

Posted 19 years ago

Hey, do you remember back when Steve Martin didn’t completely f*cking hate us? It was an idyllic period, filled with actual remarkable work like THE JERK and ROXANNE and PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES and LA STORY. Hell, I’ll even throw...

Up next for Pixar

Posted 19 years ago

Pixar definitely has their graphic making machinery working overtime, ensuring a year doesn’t go by without some of their unique brand of CG humor. RATATOUILLE arrives in theaters soon, next summer brings the robot adventure WALL-E, and 2010 brings back...

30 Days of trailer!

Posted 19 years ago

After centuries of mythology and a hundred years of movies, is there anything that can be done to make vampire stories seem fresh? Yep! The new trailer for the upcoming vampire movie 30 DAYS OF NIGHT has arrived, and any...

I Am Legend trailer!

Posted 19 years ago

Just a day after the familiar-looking teaser poster arrived comes the brief teaser trailer for this winter’s postapocalyptic thriller I AM LEGEND. The flick stars Will Smith as the last survivor of a plague (seen striking Manhattan in the clip,...

Hollywood in Mass.?

Posted 19 years ago

With more film productions heading beyond Hollywood to places like Romania, Vancouver and other alternatives, is Massachusetts next? I caught word on local news that an investment team (which includes producers from HBO’s series ROME) is looking to start a...

Doing Jessica Simpson

Posted 19 years ago

I’m not 100% positive I would consider Jessica Simpson an “actress”… or if she can even form complete sentences. I do know, however, that she looks enticing in certain attire. Like, nominal. Oh, and she’ll be in some new theoretical...

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