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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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3-D movie duel 2009?

Posted 19 years ago

Certain filmmakers are embracing various advanced technology, while studios are struggling to find ways to draw people away from their comfy recliners, HDTVs and easy access to hard liquor. But do they all have to do it on the same...

Hostel II poster

Posted 19 years ago

Filmmaker Eli Roth returns this summer with more vomit-prompting physical misery inflicted on innocents with HOSTEL PART II. Picking up the pieces after the eye-snipping entertainment of the first flick, the follow-up focuses on a group of Euro-touring chicks who...

A new Stepfather

Posted 19 years ago

Most weekdays that end in “y” bring more horror remake news, and today ends in “y”. So yeah, more horror remake news… As we first heard last year, the 80s domestic thriller THE STEPFATHER is getting a fresh face, but...

Shaolin Soccer 2?

Posted 19 years ago

I do love a fair bit of Asian cinema, and Stephen Chow’s unique martial sports comedy SHAOLIN SOCCER was monkey-bucket fun. There have been mutterings about a follow-up ever since the award-winning original smashed Hong Kong box office records, but...

More MPAA idiocy

Posted 19 years ago

Anyone who saw the scathing documentary THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED might think that the unflattering spotlight cast on the dubious practices of the MPAA, combined with their new president and the fact that we live in the 21st...

Terror Train again

Posted 19 years ago

Some time before the Rapture, pretty much every horror movie will get remade, regardless of its status as a classic (HALLOWEEN) or… substantially less than classic. Like TERROR TRAIN. A new TRAIN has been sitting at the station without fuel...

Beckinsale-arella?

Posted 19 years ago

Even though writers were just brought on board for a remake of the sci-fi sex-o-rama BARBARELLA, the actress rumor mill has already been whirling like Jane Fonda disrobing in zero-gravity. The latest lass rumored to be slipping into (and out...

Spider-Musical?

Posted 19 years ago

Stranger things have happened in the entertainment field than a SPIDER-MAN Broadway musical. Just not today. But it’s true — after SPIDER-MAN 3 breaks every box office record in the universe, the webbed wonder will reportedly be swinging onto a...

Transformers posters

Posted 19 years ago

Many of us will spend our Fourth of July weekend with Optimus Prime and his eerie metallic lips as they save mere humans from the threat of Megatron and the Decepticons in TRANSFORMERS. But if you can’t wait that long...

A Sallah-free Indy?

Posted 19 years ago

I guess when Sallah rode off into the sunset at the end of INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, it really was the end for him and Marcus Brody (Hank Jones, Sr. is still deciding). According to Dark Horizons, burly...

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