Mike Sampson

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Favorite Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, Jaws, Boogie Nights, Goodfellas, The Jerk, Raiders of read more the Lost Ark, The Untouchables (recent) 21 Grams, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Anchorman

Likes: German women, the VX-980 hair blower, my chest hair, fighting beach read more crime, my talking black Trans-Am...oh wait, that's David Hasselhoff

Someone call Rich Little, a Ronald Reagan biopic is in the works

Posted 16 years ago

Though a 2003 miniseries about the life of Ronald Reagan, starring notorious democrat James Brolin, was dumped by CBS before it could air, Hollywood producers are once again trying to get the story of our 40th president off the ground....

Joel McHale joins Spy Kids 4 as Jessica Alba’s baby daddy

Posted 16 years ago

Joel McHale has done a remarkable job segueing from his career as the host of E!’s “The Soup” to a leading comic actor. His work on “Community” has helped propel that series, heading into its sophomore year, to one of...

First look at Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander

Posted 16 years ago

Call me a heretic, call me what you will. Say I’m old fashioned, say I’m over the hill. But THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO was a total bore. Like everyone else, I got the book and read it, but...

Natalie Portman to replace Angelina Jolie in Gravity?

Posted 16 years ago

Like THE WRESTLER before it, Darren Aronofsky’s BLACK SWAN has opened to mix reviews on the film itself but rave reviews for its lead actor. As Mickey Rourke became the frontrunner for the Oscar after playing Randy The Ram (he...

Unbreakable 2 is happening! But it’s not Unbreakable 2…

Posted 16 years ago

M. Night Shyamalan has been teasing us with thoughts of a sequel to UNBREAKABLE since the film was released. As he just told MTV, “Literally, that’s the question I get asked the most anywhere around the world.” OK fans, your...

Just in time for Machete, it’s the Hobo With a Shotgun trailer!

Posted 16 years ago

I’m sure, by now, you know the story of the original trailer for HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN. Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill won a contest at SXSW sponsored by Robert Rodriguez and the movie GRINDHOUSE. The trio created...

Scared of getting abducted in your car? Don’t watch this Let Me In clip

Posted 16 years ago

High atop my list of phobias (right underneath heights but right above giant hairy spiders) is the thought of getting in my car at night and having some crazy serial killer jump up from the backseat and attack me. So...

Aronofsky explains his departure from RoboCop

Posted 16 years ago

Much has been made on the interwebz about Darren Aronofsky’s participation on ROBOCOP. Rumors that Aronofsky was departing the project were rampant within months of him signing on to the project and eventually he did leave the film behind to...

Sandman puts film version to sleep, off to TV instead?

Posted 16 years ago

Back in 2008 while celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of “The Sandman,” artist Neil Gaiman said that “a Sandman movie is an inevitability.” Just two years later it looks as if that inevitability was actually quite evitable. As...

Emma Bell will cheat death in Final Destination 5

Posted 16 years ago

FINAL DESTINATION 5, er, excuse me 5NAL DESTINATION, has already lined up a pretty deep cast that includes David Koechner, P.J. Byrne, Tony Todd, Meghan Ory, Nicholas D’Agosto, Ellen Wroe, Arlen Escarpeta and Miles Fisher but was missing an actress...

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