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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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QT Grindhouse fest

Posted 19 years ago

Can’t wait a month or so for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s exploitation team-up GRINDHOUSE to get a taste of lurid sex, drugs, perversion, kung fu and random violence? Do you live in Los Angeles? Then you’re in luck —...

Scanners remake

Posted 19 years ago

For all you regular readers who vehemently object whenever another remake is rumored or announced, this ought to make your head explode. Dimension is remaking David Cronenberg’s cranial-detonation thriller SCANNERS, and none other than SAW II and III director Darren...

Sunshine poster

Posted 19 years ago

28 DAYS LATER director Danny Boyle’s nifty-sounding deep space flick SUNSHINE is looming ever closer, but unfortunately this new poster is giving me a bad sensation of SUPERNOVA or SOLARBABIES. It also looks like it was hastily assembled with ColorForms...

JMS on Zombie War

Posted 19 years ago

Although a lot of recent flicks featuring the shambling undead deserved to be shot in the head and returned to the grave, the cinematic corpses will inevitably rise to consume a bit of raw human flesh. And people like Brad...

Cage thinks he’s Fly?

Posted 19 years ago

It’s been a while since we heard anything about the latest remake of THE FLY — I thought it was deader than Geena Davis’ film career, but then something like this comes out of nowhere. Apparently Nic Cage is going...

Hulk punches Canada

Posted 19 years ago

Details on the HULK sequel are pretty scarce, but while we don’t know exactly what the green behemoth will be doing in his next raging adventure, at least we know where he’ll be doing it. The follow-up film (currently called...

“New” face of Myers

Posted 19 years ago

Despite the controversy surrounding rocker-filmmaker Rob Zombie’s risky remake/reboot/re-imagining of John Carpenter’s horror classic HALLOWEEN, so far the only noticeable differences are the actors themselves. Our dear old friend and favorite unstoppable homicidal maniac Michael Myers looks virtually identical to...

Abrams directs Trek!

Posted 19 years ago

Amidst a nebula of online conjecture and semantic arguments, the proverbial bullshit has finally been bisected. JJ Abrams will indeed be directing the next STAR TREK movie, Paramount’s attempt to give the franchise a kick in the dilithium crystals. Abrams...

Enter Area 52

Posted 19 years ago

Toss yet another title on the growing list of comic book properties on their way to becoming big-screen features (some far more slowly than others – I’m hoping Zack Snyder finally gets WATCHMEN to theaters). The Image Comics series AREA...

Rambo vs. Indy?

Posted 19 years ago

I’m starting to feel like an unofficial spokesman for all things RAMBO-related lately, but here’s another interesting information bite for you — not quite enough to make a billy goat puke, but moderately filling nonetheless. The newest rumor regarding the...

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