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

Exclusive clip from Sundance comedy Bass Ackwards

Posted 17 years ago

Our man Chris Bumbray is at Sundance checking out all sorts of flicks and one that is on his to-do list is the comedy BASS ACKWARDS. The film, executive produced by Mark Duplass (who’s at Sundance with his own movie,...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid trailer

Posted 17 years ago

If you’ve never seen them, those DIARY OF A WIMPY KID books are like TWILIGHT for grade school boys. I happened to be at a book store when the most recent version came out and it was a madhouse of...

Jonah Hill’s Sundance comedy Cyrus gets a trailer

Posted 17 years ago

If I were going to Sundance this year, one of the films I’d be most looking forward to is the John C. Reilly/Jonah Hill comedy CYRUS. Directed by Mark and Jay Duplass, the film stars Reilly as a lonely guy...

MOVIE POLL # 542

Posted 17 years ago

Clash of the Titans….in 3D!

Posted 17 years ago

Was AVATAR not enough 3D Sam Worthington for you? Good news then. Warner Bros. is testing out scenes from CLASH OF THE TITANS in 3D to decide whether they want to convert the entire movie to the extra-dimensional format for...

INTERVIEW: A-Team director Joe Carnahan

Posted 17 years ago

I got a chance recently to talk to Joe Carnahan, the director of the upcoming A-TEAM movie and executive producer of SMOKIN’ ACES 2, which hits DVD and Blu-ray today. He directed the original film and came back to shepherd...

Hurry up! The MacGruber trailer is here!

Posted 17 years ago

The new red-band (it’s actually orange-band unless my monitor’s color settings are off) trailer for MACGRUBER is here and now you can finally figure out how they expanded the relatively one-note SNL sketch to a movie! In actuality there is...

Paranormal Activity 2 gets a director

Posted 17 years ago

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies on Halloween… Paramount has announced that they’ve hired a writer and director for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 and they’ve poached some talent from another Halloween franchise. The studio...

SHIELD agent returns for Thor

Posted 17 years ago

It looks like Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury won’t be the only recurring SHIELD character in the Marvel film universe. Clark Gregg, who starred as Agent Coulson in IRON MAN, has signed on to reprise his role in Marvel’s upcoming...

Burton to direct Sleeping Beauty tale for Disney?

Posted 17 years ago

This is perhaps some of the coolest news in a while (and apropos consider it’s source). Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that Tim Burton is developing a SLEEPING BEAUTY adaptation for Disney that will be told from the point...

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