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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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Black Panther in FF?

Posted 19 years ago

When the first FANTASTIC FOUR proved a minor hit, director Tim Story started giving consideration to the superhero team’s gallery of rogues and other peripheral characters in case of sequel. He ended up getting his silver-coated wish, but who else...

Singer’s new crew

Posted 19 years ago

After THE USUAL SUSPECTS got the filmmakers so much attention, fans wondered what director Bryan Singer and writer Chris McQuarrie would do next together. Over a decade later, we’re finally finding out it’s a WWII thriller currently titled VALKYRIE. Singer...

Common is Wanted

Posted 19 years ago

It’s a little unusual that one of hip-hop’s less “gangsta” (and more talented) artists is already handling firearms in his young movie career, but Common is picking up the guns yet again. The lyricist-turned-thesp is following turns in SMOKIN’ ACES...

Doomsday details

Posted 19 years ago

DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT director Neil Marshall is taking a long hard look the end of the world with his next flick, the postapocalyptic sci-fi story DOOMSDAY. Fortunately he’s got someone as fit as Rhona Mitra to save us....

Not quite Expendable

Posted 19 years ago

Not all movies based on comics come from the traditional superhero genre — there’s still plenty of worthwhile material out there that might be off the beaten path. Intrepid Pictures managed to find one: THE EXPENDABLE ONE. The production company...

Drawing a Triangle

Posted 19 years ago

British filmmaker Chris Smith has already dealt with a subway man-monster and crazy European forest folk, and next he’s making a change of scenery and heading to everyone’s favorite time-space distortion zone. Smith is following up CREEP and the violent...

Boll’s still a Far Cry

Posted 19 years ago

Before people in the videogame industry had a chance to see director (should that be in quotes?) Uwe Boll’s HOUSE OF THE DEAD or ALONE IN THE DARK, they happily handed over movie rights to numerous properties, including the first-person...

More Evil Dead?

Posted 19 years ago

I can almost guarantee that any time Sam Raimi goes out in public, any fan of Deadite-smashing pseudo-hero Ash brings up the question of whether we’ll see another EVIL DEAD movie. Well, Raimi’s obviously out in public a lot lately,...

Golden Compass poster

Posted 19 years ago

I wasn’t the biggest NARNIA fan, so it’s not that easy to get excited about the sequel. What? This… isn’t the NARNIA sequel? Um… oh. How awkward. Anyway, here’s the teaser poster for the latest big-budget fantasy flick, THE GOLDEN...

Lebowski figures!

Posted 19 years ago

Rugs are, like, great and all, man, but you know what’d really complete the room? How about a small plastic effigy of The Dude himself? Plus his psychotic thick-necked chum Walter? Yep, “action” figures of THE BIG LEBOWSKI characters are...

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