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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: Paul Verhoeven vs. John McTiernan

In last week’s Face-Off column, the WWII “men on a mission” movies INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and THE DIRTY DOZEN went up against each other, and the overwhelming consensus seemed to be that I was essentially insane for giving Tarantino’s movie the...
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Weekend Box Office Report: February 7-9, 2014

The Lego Movie is made of gold bricks! This weekend marked the first time a blockbuster was made of actual blocks (well, computer-generated ones), as THE LEGO MOVIE opened at the top of the box office with $69.1 million! The movie, budgeted...
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Face Off: Inglourious Basterds vs. The Dirty Dozen

In last week’s Face-Off column, versatile actors Josh Brolin and Jeremy Renner traded blows. While I wound up finding them to be evenly matched, more of you seemed to think Renner deserved the win. Dave This weekend, George Clooney gathers...
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Weekend Box Office Report: January 31-February 2, 2014

Ride Along is still riding high! For the third weekend in a row, the Kevin Hart/Ice Cube buddy comedy RIDE ALONG stayed on the top of the box office with an additional $12.3 million! Whether audiences were too busy gearing...
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Face Off: Josh Brolin vs. Jeremy Renner

In last week’s Face-Off column, movie monster-mashers VAN HELSING and HELLBOY had to duke it out, and the vast majority of you agreed with the assessment that Big Red used the Right Fist of Doom to severely pummel Hugh Jackman’s...
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Weekend Box Office Report: January 24-26, 2014

Ride Along is still cruising on top! The cold temperatures (and lack of competition) are keeping Ice Cube solid, and his comedy RIDE ALONG remained at the top of the box office with an additional $21.1 million! The PG-13 movie,...
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Face Off: Van Helsing vs. Hellboy

In last week’s Face-Off column, it was a tight race as to whether your favorite movie version of Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst Jack Ryan was played by Harrison Ford or Alec Baldwin. We’ll call this one… too close to call!...
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