Film Critic

Favorite Movies: Jaws, Star Wars Trilogy, Aliens, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dawn read more of the Dead ('78), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74), Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Reservoir Dogs, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, Stand by Me, Shaun of the Dead, Boogie Nights, La Dolce Vita, 12 Angry Men, The Birds, Touch of Evil

Likes: Film, Beer (who the hell DOESN'T around here?!), writing, NY Mets, read more The Jets, Girls who love film AND beer (at the same time), Jazz, Deadwood, The Wire, The Office, The Twilight Zone, Cormac McCarthy, Graham Greene, Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scorsese, Spielberg, Halloween season, Marvel movies, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Game of Thrones, Edgar Allen Poe, Mother Nature

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Eckhart vs. aliens

Aaron Eckhart is ready to show y’all he’s Hollywood leading-man material after his effective turn as a nice district attorney in some movie that came out a few months back. Eckhart has signed onto the alien invasion thriller BATTLE: LOS...
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McQuarrie on Monster, Champions

I guess Tom Cruise likes Christopher McQuarrie, because after the time they spent working on the upcoming VALKYRIE they’re set to team up again with THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE (Cruise is only attached to produce for United Artists at the...
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Amusement to DVD

AMUSEMENT is up there with ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE in that I just keep on writing about it with nary any actual sign of it. There was a trailer released for it about 30 years ago. We’re told...
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New Red Sonja poster

Movieset has a new promo poster for the Robert Rodriguez-produced RED SONJA, starring his luscious ex Rose McGowan. The flick has Douglas Aarniokoski (HIGHLANDER: END GAME) at the helm, but as far as I can tell, there’s no set start...
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Pegg/Frost meet Paul

This shite sounds right up our alley. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, immortal icons to horror fans for their work in the brilliant SHAUN OF THE DEAD – as well as the equally brilliant t.v. show SPACED – are teaming...
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Cloverfield 2 must wait

While I appreciated most of the theatrical moviegoing experience of CLOVERFIELD, I must admit it was one of those movies that you walk out of and immediately begin griping about. Lame characters, lame romance-subplot, not enough actual monster action, stomach-churning...
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Green gets Frozen

It would appear that the awesome Adam Green (HATCHET, SPIRAL) has decided upon his next project. It’s called FROZEN, and he’s making it for Peter Block’s new production company A Bigger Boat. (How cool is that?) Block used to be...
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Giallo trailer!

Hannibal Pictures, the production company behind GIALLO has posted the first teaser for Dario Argento’s ode to the genre he helped make gruesomely popular. Check it out below! And cheesy voice-over aside (what is this, a trailer for an 80s...
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Coraline sneak peek!

A couple of nights ago, I was one of a lucky few people to get an early look at Henry Selick’s new stop-motion – and 3-D! – feature, CORALINE, based on Neil Gaiman’s book of the same name. We were...
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Dante on Hole 3D

Joe Dante’s return to his horror roots is something I’m pretty excited about, as the director of GREMLINS and THE HOWLING preps his latest monster romp THE HOLE. The $15 million thriller is getting ready to roll, and as production...
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