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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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Weekend Box Office Report: July 12-14, 2013

Twice as Despicable! The big question this week seemed to be whether director Guillermo del Toro's robots-versus-monsters epic PACIFIC RIM could overcome Adam Sandler's second buddy reunion GROWN UPS 2. As it turned out, neither new release packed enough punch...
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Weekend Box Office Report: July 5-7, 2013

Gru and Minions come back in a big way! Three years after their first unexpected success, reformed villain Gru and his crew of mischievous Minions returned to the theaters with DESPICABLE ME 2, and stole the top spot at the...
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Weekend Box Office Report: June 28-30, 2013

Monsters are feeling The Heat! In its second weekend, Pixar's MONSTERS UNIVERSITY scared up enough business to retain the #1 position, taking in an additional $46.1 million! The prequel, offering a glimpse at the early scream curriculum of MONSTERS, INC...
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Weekend Box Office Report: June 21-23, 2013

A Monster opening! Pixar took a look back at the education of MONSTERS, INC.'s top scarers, and audiences were more than happy to attend class with Mike and Sully, putting MONSTERS UNIVERSITY at the top of a busy box office...
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Weekend Box Office Report: June 14-16, 2013

Superman soars! One of the year's most anticipated movies finally arrived on Earth this weekend, and was greeted with open arms by humans — MAN OF STEEL landed at the top with a heroic $125 million opening! While that total...
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Weekend Box Office Report: June 7-9, 2013

Everyone feels the urge to Purge! Summer is normally the time when attractively packaged, aggressively promoted and astronomically budgeted movies rule the box office. But this weekend the low-budget horror flick THE PURGE showed them all who's boss, taking the...
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