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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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Earth Stood Still date

Posted 20 years ago

A whole flying saucer full of remakes of classic sci-fi movies (and/or the stories they’re based on) is whirling toward theaters, including WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, and now this one, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL....

Elliot in Rambo 4?

Posted 20 years ago

RAMBO 4 (or JOHN RAMBO or whatever it’ll be titled) is gearing up for production in April, but (ignoring the oft-erroneous IMDB listings) we haven’t heard much by way of official casting. Now we hear that Western regular Sam Elliot...

No Under Siege 3, but

Posted 20 years ago

You may recall reading some buzz around this here internets about a rather decent UNDER SIEGE 3 script recently making the rounds. But while soldier-chef Steven Seagal and Warner Bros. (who owns the franchise) won’t be reuniting for more action...

It’s Already Dead

Posted 20 years ago

You might think the vampire genre has been bled dry, but there’s still some life left in the undead. Wow, I apologize for that entire sentence. But it’s true — here comes yet another attempt at keeping the cobwebs off...

Another babe Taken

Posted 20 years ago

Our own Handsome Mike just told you that lovely LOST flotsam Maggie Grace will appear as a victim of human slave trade in the thriller TAKEN (don’t worry, her daddy is Liam Neeson and he’s comin’ to get her). Another...

Grindhouse divided

Posted 20 years ago

The vile rumor that GRINDHOUSE might not make it to theaters in its original double-feature format has circulated for months (after all, Tarantino just recently finished filming), but all indication is that we’ll get the twin injection of exploitation as...

Montoya in Batman?

Posted 20 years ago

Besides the returning characters (like Alfred, Jim Gordon and probably Bruce Wayne), we know some of the new faces in Christopher Nolan’s BATMAN follow-up THE DARK KNIGHT will include the Joker and Harvey Dent, the future Two-Face. But who else...

Woo remakes French

Posted 20 years ago

Hong Kong mayhem maker John Woo has often proclaimed his love of French New Wave film — Jean-Pierre Melville’s brilliant LE SAMOURAI is the primary inspiration for Woo’s ballistic masterpiece THE KILLER. And now Woo is getting his hands on...

Rambo 4 title

Posted 20 years ago

We know that veteran war machine John J. Rambo is soon coming out of a nearly twenty-year retirement to once again expend copious amounts of ammunition and gouge various humans with his oversized knife, but in exactly what movie will...

Hobbit on the way?

Posted 20 years ago

You might’ve heard about the flap a few months ago between LORD OF THE RINGS director Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema’s honcho Bob Shaye, the gist of it being that the guy who made Tolkein’s books a viable business...

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