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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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A new Infestation

Posted 19 years ago

Aw, man, another creature feature? Okay, count me in! Young actor Christopher Marquette (ALPHA DOG, FANBOYS) will be fighting giant alien insects in Icon Prods. INFESTATION, a new horror-comedy that’s curiously being described as “28 DAYS LATER meets SHAUN OF...

Sgt. Rock flick?

Posted 19 years ago

What I recall of DC Comics character SGT. ROCK was that he carried a Tommy gun, always had a torn uniform, wore a bullet belt, and made lots of holes in Nazis. Is he finally fighting his way to the...

Natali’s nice Splice

Posted 19 years ago

Director Vincenzo Natali is one of those guys I’ve been following for a while — he made a splash a decade back with his debut CUBE, a paranoid low-budget tale of strangers trapped in a giant killer hi-tech maze, and...

Shia: The Last Man?

Posted 19 years ago

Actor Shia LaBeouf isn’t even old enough to legally purchase a sixer of Sam Adams brew, but he’s already basically on the Hollywood A-list: his new thriller DISTURBIA is an inarguable success, he’s the non-robot lead in this summer’s guaranteed...

Whedon on X-Men 4?

Posted 19 years ago

To answer the question I just posited in the above headline: nah, not really. But a slow news day and some wishful thinking are enough to justify an article. Yes, I am an admirer of Whedon’s creative ouevre, and would’ve...

FF2 surfs MySpace

Posted 19 years ago

With the unprecedented hype generated by SPIDER-MAN 3 and the ludicrous amount of attention THE DARK KNIGHT is already gathering, another upcoming superhero flick is sort of getting brushed aside, namely FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER. But the...

Balls of Fury poster

Posted 19 years ago

The upcoming comedy BALLS OF FURY is clearly hoping that a laffer about ping pong can hit the same wallets and funnybones that DODGEBALL did. At least it does have some funny people involved (David Koechner, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt,...

No Fletch for Braff

Posted 19 years ago

It hasn’t been easy getting Irwin Fletcher back into theaters — Kevin Smith ended up ditching his plans for the prequel FLETCH WON, and now TV’s SCRUBS star Zach Braff has joined him in hitting the bricks. Braff had initially...

Nay, Hulk not gray

Posted 19 years ago

Quicker than a speeding mutant, this past weekend’s speculation dissemination that Marvel’s massive monster would be the gray version in INCREDIBLE HULK has been debunked by Avi Arad himself. As some might have suspected, Arad didn’t actually mean it when...

Hulk gray and w/ Biel?

Posted 19 years ago

Marvel’s INCREDIBLE HULK comes back to smash theaters next year, with Ed Norton as the new human incarnation of Bruce Banner. You might not like him when he’s angry, but would you like him better if he was a different...

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