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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

Hitman’s nemesis

Posted 19 years ago

We’ve seen plenty of videogame properties turned into movies (with gigabytes more on the way), but the quality-to-quantity ratio hasn’t exactly been in favor of anyone who’s seen TOMB RAIDER or DOOM or WING COMMANDER or HOUSE OF THE DEAD....

New Star Trek talk

Posted 19 years ago

Gene Roddenberry’s stale sci-fi franchise will soon boldly go where it’s already been about a dozen times, but what can both the Trekkies and the non-Trek-care-abouters expect? Writers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman had beans about the project, and spilled...

Toy Story 2010

Posted 19 years ago

Woody and Buzz Lightyear are traveling to the future! In a manner of speaking, anyway — TOY STORY 3 is now pushed back to a debut in 2010, the same year Roy Scheider heads to Jupiter for more fun with...

Murphy’s Fantasy Isle

Posted 19 years ago

Just how hard did Eddie Murphy take his non-win at this year’s Oscars? Hard enough to go right from the kind of serious and respectable role worthy of a nomination into a remake of a TV series, if this rumor...

Halle steals stuff

Posted 19 years ago

For a while there after she snatched a little gold statue, it seemed like Halle Berry was attached to a new project every week. But except for her third turn as bewigged weather babe Storm in X-MEN 3, she seems...

Hobbit meets Hellboy

Posted 19 years ago

Genre flick veteran and back-rack survivor Ron Perlman is getting ready to paint himself red again for another mission with Oscar-robbed director Guillermo del Toro, who’ll start shooting his HELLBOY sequel in May. But Perlman is ditching the horn-stubs for...

Hail to Burger King

Posted 19 years ago

You’ve probably been haunted by the unnerving and ubiquitous Burger King mascot, who has a penchant for suddenly revealing his eerie stone-faced visage in everything from football games to some guy’s bedroom. Will this regal creep soon venture beyond snack...

Puppet zombie western

Posted 19 years ago

McG and the Losers?

Posted 19 years ago

CHARLIE’S ANGELS director McG tried to deviate from the overstimulation that established his film career with the more grounded (ahem) sports drama WE ARE MARSHALL, but without quite as much box office success. So he’s apparently heading back to a...

G.I. Marky Mark?

Posted 19 years ago

“Yo, Joe!” “COBRAAAA!!!” “A real American hero!” “And knowing is half the battle!” That’s about the extent of what I recall from that old G.I. JOE cartoon, along with constantly wondering how trained soldiers could shoot millions of color-coded laser...

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