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

Which Apatow vet was the new Muppet character Walter based on?

Posted 14 years ago

I have not yet seen THE MUPPETS (that happens tonight) and have tried to keep myself relatively spoiler-free. But what I do know is that in the film Jason Segel has a adopted puppet brother named Walter, who’s one of...

Despite the controversy, Ricky Gervais confirmed to host Golden Globes for a third time

Posted 14 years ago

So much for being banned, huh? Despite reports that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was furious with Ricky Gervais following last year’s Golden Globes and his controversial performance, the HFPA and NBC have officially brought back Gervais to host again...

Find out how you can see We Bought a Zoo four weeks early

Posted 14 years ago

If you’re like me, you’re looking forward to the return of Cameron Crowe this holiday season with his first film in six years, WE BOUGHT A ZOO. I must not be the only person excited to see this movie because...

Movie Trailers

Mark Wahlberg is coming for you in this new Contraband trailer

Posted 14 years ago

CONTRABAND seems like one of those movies where you don’t even need to know what’s going on. None of the trailers I’ve seen have done much of a job trying to explain the plot of the film (basically people are...

Michael Jackson’s family pitching a biopic around Hollywood

Posted 14 years ago

It look a little longer than I thought it would, but the Michael Jackson estate has formally begun shopping around the rights to the late singer’s life story, meeting earlier this week with producer Ivan Reitman. A Michael Jackson biopic...

MOVIE POLL # 732

Posted 14 years ago

Cool Videos: The Title Design of Saul Bass

Posted 14 years ago

Nowadays it seems like every movie has to have a fancy opening title sequence. But it wasn’t always that way. The idea that opening credits could be an art form came from legendary graphic designer Saul Bass. Bass got his...

David Fincher on whether Dragon Tattoo will get Oscar noms: Nope, too much anal rape

Posted 14 years ago

Oh, David Fincher. The director of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO told Entertainment Weekly that while SOCIAL NETWORK was nominated for eight Oscars and BENJAMIN BUTTON was nominated for thirteen, Fincher says don’t get your hopes up for his...

WB greenlights its planned Lego universe movie

Posted 14 years ago

Warner Bros. has given the greenlight to its planned Lego movie, a movie the studio has been developing since 2008. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS) wrote the script for the film and will co-direct...

The first full trailer for The Hunger Games is here…

Posted 14 years ago

I have not read any of the HUNGER GAMES book and have only a peripheral knowledge of the story itself. That may make me a bad person to judge the full trailer for the first film based on the trilogy,...

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