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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

Lookout cash contest

Posted 19 years ago

Unless you drastically mistyped blowjob.com, you’re probably reading this site because you like movies. It’s safe to assume you also like free money, so what better way to promote THE LOOKOUT than by slapping a lucky human with a thousand...

Aja on Piranha?

Posted 19 years ago

Filmmaker Alexandre Aja has already brought us killer desert mutants and bloodied French babes. Does he have little hungry fish in his future? The guy behind HIGH TENSION and THE HILLS HAVE EYES remake might be wading into watery carnage,...

Wright talks Ant-Man

Posted 19 years ago

Were it possible to fry slices of gold, filmmaker Edgar Wright is certainly the man to do it — anyone who worships SPACED, SHAUN OF THE DEAD or HOT FUZZ would probably use the term “genius” to describe the guy....

Carnahan on Bunny

Posted 19 years ago

Last week there was a whole bunch of rumpus (rumpuses? rumpi? whatever) in the trades about actress Reese Witherspoon abruptly abandoning the thriller BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, the latest project from NARC and SMOKIN’ ACES guy Joe Carnahan. The supposed...

QT helps Hell Ride

Posted 19 years ago

Even without his own movie attached, Quentin Tarantino’s name alone definitely carries some weight — you probably wouldn’t see movies like HERO and IRON MONKEY making it to theaters otherwise, and having it emblazoned all over advertisements probably didn’t hurt...

DVD Review: F*ck

Posted 19 years ago

Dave Davis reviews “F*ck”

It’s just Plane Dead

Posted 19 years ago

Major studios are always trying to replicate B-movies… but with A-list actors and loads of cash behind them, they sort of miss the point. Fortunately some filmmakers are still doing it the old-fashioned way: high concept and low budget. I...

Aussies Die Hard

Posted 19 years ago

You know who’s really un-American? The Australians. Well, the Canadians, too, but let’s stick with the Australians for the moment. Just how un-American are they? Enough for Fox to change the name of the new DIE HARD movie back to...

Machete goes solo?

Posted 19 years ago

The SXSW festival is underway, and Austinite maverick Robert Rodriguez is giving lucky attendees a healthy injection of GRINDHOUSE goodies (the rest of us chumps have to wait til the flick hits next month). A nice meaty scoop among Rodriguez’s...

Trailer of The Mad

Posted 19 years ago

Billy Zane. Lethal meat patties. The walking dead. As a self-professed zombie flick zealot, how could I possibly ignore this? Let’s face it — there are plenty of low-budget zombie movies being made, but few are nearly as satisfying as...

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