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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

Departed 2 talk

Posted 20 years ago

There were rumblings recently (specifically from the mouth of Mark Wahlberg) that THE DEPARTED was potentially on the sequel track, with the amusingly abrasive Sgt. Dignam taking center stage in another Boston crime movie. Any truth to that? Not much,...

Shia is Indy’s kid?

Posted 20 years ago

After expressing my displeasure (borderline contempt really) with INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE degrading the franchise from fantastic adventure into lowbrow travesty, only to discover a lot of JoBlo readers seem to enjoy that movie, I’m hesistant to further...

Homemade Grindhouse

Posted 20 years ago

A few weeks back, Austin’s South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) announced a contest urging all exploitation fans and aspiring filmmakers to craft a “fake trailer” in honor of the release of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s impending intentional schlock GRINDHOUSE....

Edgar Wright’s next

Posted 20 years ago

I’m thisclose to hopping on a plane and jetting to London to see HOT FUZZ, because I’m so bloody (that’s British for very) anxious for it and waiting another two months for the domestic release is sure to be excruciating....

Bruckheimer’s Jihad

Posted 20 years ago

One thing I seem to have in common with superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer is a shared love of things exploding (I’m sure we both really dig money and hot girls as well, but I’m guessing he has more access than myself)....

More in Dark Rising

Posted 20 years ago

Joining the just announced curse machine Ian McShane in the fantasy flick THE DARK IS RISING comes a whole gang of performers, chief among them Brit actor Chris Eccleston. Though he recently was seen quite clearly having a blast as...

Two-Face found!

Posted 20 years ago

Well, it’s official: after much speculation (so very, very much speculation), the character of D.A. Harvey Dent has been cast in the upcoming BATMAN sequel THE DARK KNIGHT. As has been rumored (along with just about any actor with at...

Crank guys write

Posted 20 years ago

How can CRANK makers Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine follow the preposterous (and strangely ingenious) mayhem of their feature debut? How about a… medical murder mystery? Momentarily putting aside their penchant for velocity and casual outrageousness, the duo scripted PATHOLOGY,...

Entering The Ruins

Posted 20 years ago

Author Scott Smith’s first novel A SIMPLE PLAN was turned into a stark, compelling film by Sam Raimi. It took Smith quite a while to get his second book THE RUINS on shelves, but they’re not wasting much time getting...

McShane starts Rising

Posted 20 years ago

Now that he’s got downtime from his dastardly Old West antics on HBO’s DEADWOOD, actor Ian McShane is switching sides to the good guys for a bit. McShane, perhaps most famous for using the term “cocksucker” more than practically anyone...

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