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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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Grindhouse FX look

Posted 19 years ago

If you’re one of the people who ventured out to catch GRINDHOUSE in theaters this past weekend and/or you wanna know more about the flick’s Sicko copter-chopping or Cherry’s gun-gam, you don’t have to wait until the eventual DVD release....

Earth Stood Still guy?

Posted 19 years ago

UPDATE: As pointed out below, IESB actually caught wind of this a while back, so it now seems to be verified. Hey, it was news to me! Plenty of sci-fi remakes are still whirling their way across the nebula, and...

Grindhouse revisited??

Posted 19 years ago

With the (seemingly) much-anticipated double feature GRINDHOUSE having a case of box office erectile dysfunction, Hollywood insiders and online journalists immediately speculated on the causes quicker than Tarantino can deliver a complete sentence. It’s too long! Too violent! Too self-indulgent!...

Bay’s latest Fiasco

Posted 19 years ago

Michael “The Detonator” Bay has had some explosive success (a-hyuck!) at the box office with his directing efforts, but his Platinum Dunes production company has also picked a few pockets with remakes of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and AMITYVILLE HORROR. But...

More in 100 Feet

Posted 19 years ago

Arrow in the Head, our horror-focused Belial-like conjoined twin, is soaked in the Red — by which I mean Eric Red, the writer-director of the upcoming thriller 100 FEET. Red has been keeping the ghoulish gang apprised of the ongoings...

Halloween trailer

Posted 19 years ago

The teaser trailer has arrived for rocker-filmmaker Rob Zombie’s controversial “re-invention” of Carpenter’s horror classic HALLOWEEN, and it basically doesn’t do much to assuage my initial instinctive reaction: aside from the commerce argument, who really wanted/needed this? Anyway, the trailer...

Death Race details

Posted 19 years ago

We previously heard that director Paul WS Anderson, known for slick-looking and thought-free works like MORTAL KOMBAT and AvP, was departing a CASTLEVANIA movie to focus on his long-planned remake of DEATH RACE 2000. And while he’s still involved in...

Southland Tales news

Posted 19 years ago

From Stomp to Static

Posted 19 years ago

Director Sylvain White obviously pleased a few important deep-pocketed people with his modestly budgeted hit STOMP THE YARD — he’s making a quantum leap from street dancing to sci-fi action. White will take the reins on Sony’s STATIC, a futuristic...

Morrison in Area 51

Posted 19 years ago

Influential and occasionally controversial comic veteran Grant Morrison has been writing for the printed format for longer than many of this site’s readers have existed in flesh, but he’s just now making his way to feature films. Paramount has grabbed...

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