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

Jamie Foxx joins Willis in Kane and Lynch

Posted 16 years ago

Back in 2008 it was announced that Bruce Willis had signed on to star in KANE & LYNCH, the Lionsgate adaptation of the popular video game. The search for his co-star continued for the next two years until it was...

ShoWest: The Karate Kid

Posted 16 years ago

Ed. note: ‘Bob Esponja’ is at ShoWest checking out all the movies that are screening there for JoBlo.com. Here’s his latest review: Yesterday at ShoWest, Sony hosted the world premiere of The Karate Kid, starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan....

Trailer for DreamWorks superhero flick Megamind

Posted 16 years ago

Back in January I saw maybe 10 minutes from the upcoming DreamWorks animated superhero movie MEGAMIND (this is the one that was originally MASTERMIND and then OOBERMIND). It stars Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and Brad Pitt in the...

Tim Burton directs Addams Family for Universal

Posted 16 years ago

Tim Burton just wrapped the wildly successful (at least on a commercial level) ALICE IN WONDERLAND for Disney and now he’s moving on to another animation studio. Don’t get too excited, he’s not making a film with Pixar but he’s...

Bryan Singer talks the future of X-Men

Posted 16 years ago

Can you believe the first X-MEN movie came out 10 years ago? On the one hand it seems like just the other day but stop and think about it and so much has happened since then. I mean, Hugh Jackman...

ShoWest: Get Low and Letters to Juliet

Posted 16 years ago

JoBlo.com reader ‘Bob Esponja’ is out checking out all the fun stuff at ShoWest for us and just passed along two quick reviews for GET LOW with Bill Murray and Robert Duvall and LETTERS TO JULIET with Amanda Seyfried. Check...

Julia Roberts eats, prays and loves in this new trailer

Posted 16 years ago

I’ve got to hand it to Julia Roberts. Normally a romancer that follows a woman as she gets fed up in her marriage and travels to Italy, India and Bali on a journey of self-discovery would be as interesting to...

INTERVIEW: Sexy Repo Men star Alice Braga!

Posted 16 years ago

Girls with accents are just plain cute; there’s no way around that. Alice Braga fits that mold perfectly (she even pronounces her name cute: ahh-lee-say). What I also loved is that she’s still relatively new to Hollywood and came into...

Natalie Portman signs for Kutcher rom-com? Noooo!!!

Posted 16 years ago

Natalie Portman had been making some incredible choices with her acting roles lately. From a Danny McBride fantasy adventure to a Darren Aronofsky thriller and a stoner comedy, the girl who was once nominated for an Oscar was seemingly finding...