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

Quoth The Raven, check out this new trailer

Posted 15 years ago

I’m not sure what to think of this trailer for THE RAVEN. I missed the footage at Comic-Con so this is the first I’m seeing from the movie and while it looks slick (shot by V FOR VENDETTA director James...

Avengers trailer to hit the web next Tuesday!

Posted 15 years ago

It’s always a weird proposition to report on when a trailer is going to appear online – a trailer itself is newsworthy but when a trailer is coming isn’t necessarily so – but this is THE AVENGERS we’re talking about...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Why shooting the Fast Five sequels back-to-back is a bad idea

Posted 15 years ago

If Twitch is to be believed, FAST SIX and FAST SEVEN (or whatever you want to call them) will be shooting back-to-back next spring with Jason Statham in talks to join the cast. Not one to bury the lede, I’ll...

Take a look at Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen in one of those upcoming Snow White movies

Posted 15 years ago

Back at Comic-Con, we got our first look at the cast of SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN in costume. It looked appropriately dark and brooding. Today, we get a first look at the cast in costume for that other Snow...

Movie Reviews

Review: The Human Centipede 2

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A mentally disabled parking garage attendant from England is obsessed with the movie THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE. He watches it at work, creates scrapbooks and even masturbates to it using sandpaper. Not content to just be a film lover, he...

Javier Bardem in talks to voice the new bad guy in Despicable Me 2

Posted 15 years ago

After his Oscar-winning performance in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, every film wanted Javier Bardem to play their villain. There was BOND 23, STAR TREK 2 and CLASH OF THE TITANS 2 who were all making plays for the actor’s...

Congrats Brits! You too can be disgusted by Human Centipede 2 as ban now lifted

Posted 15 years ago

If you’ll recall, back in June the British Board of Film Classification rejected THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 meaning the film could not be released in any form in the UK. Well fans of gross-out cinema rejoice: the ban has been...

MOVIE POLL # 723

Posted 15 years ago

I know nothing about Tintin but this trailer looks pretty damn good

Posted 15 years ago

We get two Steven Spielberg movies this holiday season. One is the Oscar frontrunner WAR HORSE, aimed squarely at adults. The other, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN, is a mo-cap animated film aimed squarely at kids (heck, it’s released through Nickelodeon)....

Spielberg? War Horse?? Pssh, Fox rebooting Mr. Ed instead

Posted 15 years ago

Get the carrots ready! While DreamWorks is gunning for an Oscar with their horse film, Fox is going a different route, planning a big-screen reboot of the classic 1960s talking horse show MR. ED. Here’s the good news: unlike MR....

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