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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

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Face-Off: White House Down vs. Olympus Has Fallen

Last week’s Face-Off column put a couple of modern espionage operatives against each other, and you were almost split down the middle between MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE’s Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the BOURNE trilogy’s Jason Bourne (Matt Damon). Dave This weekend,...
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Weekend Box Office Report: June 6-8, 2014

Everyone is at Fault! Moviegoers ditched traditional summer material this weekend in favor of something a bit more dramatic, putting THE FAULT IN OUR STARS at the top of the box office with $48.2 million! The adaptation of John Green's...
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Face Off: Ethan Hunt vs. Jason Bourne

Last week’s Face-Off column was a gunfight between a pair of great modern Westerns, and more of you agreed that TOMBSTONE walked away from the showdown and left SILVERADO laying in the street. Dave This weekend, Tom Cruise is back...
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Weekend Box Office Report: May 30-June 1, 2014

Maleficent rules the box office! Audiences went looking for something a little wicked this weekend, putting Disney's MALEFICENT at the top of the box office with $70 million! The live-action origin of the iconic villainess put Angelina Jolie in the title...
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Face Off: Silverado vs. Tombstone

Last week’s Face-Off column put the two most popular X-MEN movies (before DAYS OF FUTURE PAST) against each other, and the majority of you disagreed with the notion that X-MEN: FIRST CLASS would be preferable to X2: X-MEN UNITED. Dave...
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Weekend Box Office Report: May 23-25, 2014

X-Men marks the spot! It's no great shock that rounding up all of Marvel's mutants (past, present and future) for a big-screen adventure would be good for business, as X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST stormed the box office with an estimated opening of $90.7 million! Wolverine's time-tripping...
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