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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

UK Hot Fuzz fest!

Posted 19 years ago

If you’re located in London (or just visiting), you have a chance for a unique opportunity: to see one of 2007’s best flicks with live commentary from the filmmakers! HOT FUZZ director Edgar Wright breaks it down for ya: “Hey...

Posters Almighty

Posted 19 years ago

I love Steve Carell (can’t wait for his GET SMART, one of my fave childhood TV shows), but I’m conflicted about EVAN ALMIGHTY, the follow-up to a movie (BRUCE ALMIGHTY, der) that exited from my memory before the credits could...

Be Kind Rewind pic

Posted 19 years ago

The groovy gang over at Twitch, one of my favorite movie sites that isn’t this one, got their mitts on the first pic from BE KIND REWIND, the upcoming comedy from director Michel Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND)....

Harry Potter Land?

Posted 19 years ago

What starts with F and ends with K and is a whole lot of fun? You guessed it: Fun park! That’s where kid wizard Harry Potter and his wand-waggling pals are going — he’ll join fellow features and franchises like...

Let’s get Infested

Posted 19 years ago

Think you’ve seen every kind of serial killer movie there is to offer? Nyet, comrade, you are mistaken. Rogue Pictures has a new kind of killer coming — the kind that’s been created by a nasty bug. Rogue has snapped...

Hairspray poster

Posted 19 years ago

I’m not sure who demanded an $80 million remake of John Waters’ musical HAIRSPRAY, but there is one thing I’m sure of: seeing John Travolta in drag is going to give me nightmares for pretty much ever. But I’m sure...

Zooey’s so Happening

Posted 19 years ago

M. Night Shyamalan is desperate to prove his movies are more than two-hour buildups to “Ah ha!” revelations, so it’ll be interesting to see what he does with his next, THE HAPPENING. It’ll be interesting mostly because it will star...

Elric gets a flick?

Posted 19 years ago

Given the influx of lucrative fantasy franchises to theaters (let’s overlook ERAGON), is it finally time for an ELRIC movie? It is if the Weitz brothers have anything to say about it. Chris Weitz recently struggled with getting another big-budget...

Potter’s not tardy

Posted 19 years ago

The fifth HARRY POTTER flick, THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, is supposedly where things get “dark” for young Harold. Ooooohhh. They’ll be getting grim a little early this time — Warner Bros. has just superstitiously shifted official release away from...

Shia does Death?

Posted 19 years ago

A movie adaptation of writer Neil Gaiman’s DC/Vertigo comic DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING has been in development so long that many fans have probably shuffled off this mortal coil while waiting. But now it seems he’ll at last...

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