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

Matt Damon kicks ass, takes names in new Green Zone clip

Posted 17 years ago

While it seems as though director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon won’t be reuniting for a fourth BOURNE film, I think we’ve got the next best thing coming this March in GREEN ZONE. It’s not a spy thriller, a la...

New Wolfman poster beautifully painted by Basil Gogos!

Posted 17 years ago

Basil Gogos is the legendary artist responsible for some of the imagery you most closely associate with the Universal Monsters legacy. He often painted the covers for “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine and illustrated Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, King Kong,...

The first five minutes of The Lovely Bones!

Posted 17 years ago

While I have yet to see THE LOVELY BONES, I haven’t heard many positive things about it. In fact I’ve heard it’s a big ole mess. I’m not entirely surprised as it seems to match what I had heard about...

Neveldine, Taylor have Cash. And Money. And Dollars.

Posted 17 years ago

The filmmaking team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (who work under the not-so-creative moniker of Neveldine/Taylor) had an interesting 2009. They directed the guilty pleasure CRANK HIGH VOLTAGE, directed a candidate for one of the worst films of the...

Rashida Jones writes, stars in divorce comedy

Posted 17 years ago

I’m pretty much amazed at what Rashida Jones has been able to do while being given so little. She was put into an extremely tough situation on “The Office” (the “other girl” wedged in-between the “beloved” Jim and Pam), has...

2010 Preview: Focus Features

Posted 17 years ago

The 2010 studio previews are still trickling in and today we’ve got an update on what the indie minded folks at Focus Features are up to in the year ahead. As you might expect, there are a lot of potential...

Star Wars burlesque puts Mos Eisley to shame

Posted 17 years ago

Forget that jazz band from the Mos Eisley Cantina. At Bordello in Downtown Los Angeles, a nightly STAR WARS-themed burlesque show takes place with dancers dressed as all kinds of popular characters. There’s Darth Vader, Jabba the Hut, Boba Fett,...

The Spider-Man Reboot Round-Up

Posted 17 years ago

Yesterday afternoon the news broke, in one of the more shocking developments since I’ve been writing for this site, that Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire were off SPIDER-MAN 4 and Sony Pictures was moving ahead with a reboot of the...

Amanda Seyfried gets nude in Chloe trailer

Posted 17 years ago

Ahh the French know how to do it just a little bit better. While I’m sure the US trailer for the upcoming Atom Egoyan movie CHLOE might’ve generated some interest (it stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried), it’s...

Sony to reboot Spider-Man! Raimi, Maguire both out!

Posted 17 years ago

Holy breaking news, Spider-Man! Sony Pictures announced this afternoon that they’re moving ahead on the next SPIDER-MAN film….without Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire! The studio will instead be “rebooting” the franchise based on a script previously written by James Vanderbilt...

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