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

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Seven 500 Days clips!

Posted 17 years ago

500 DAYS OF SUMMER the anti-rom-com starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, has been getting tons of buzz ever since Sundance. We’ll have a review up later this week that exclaims, “It’s realistic, witty and, most important, an extremely entertaining...

Nine 9 posters

Posted 17 years ago

When I saw TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN in the theaters, a few things happened. 1) I yawned. 2) I got up to go to the bathroom. 3) I checked my watch. And 4) the trailer for 9 ran with...

Duncan preps Mute

Posted 17 years ago

Back before MOON was ever made, director Duncan Jones approached actor Sam Rockwell about a starring role in another script titled MUTE. Rockwell wasn’t interested in playing a villain (the role Jones had offered him) but the actor liked the...

Watchmen Blu-ray clip

Posted 17 years ago

When “Director’s Commentary” first became available on DVDs, I loved the feature. I used to watch a movie and then immediately rewatch it with the commentary turned on just to hear all the behind-the-scenes stuff. But as DVDs progressed, I...

More Oscar changes?

Posted 17 years ago

By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard the news that, starting with the upcoming award show, the Best Picture nominees will be expanded from five to ten. But that’s not all the Academy has in store for us. While there...

More American Werewolf

Posted 17 years ago

As if their past attempt at launching a modern werewolf franchise didn’t fail badly enough (see: CURSED), Dimension Films are looking to try again, by remaking AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Because why try to come up with a new...

No cuts for Basterds

Posted 17 years ago

Quentin Tarantino cutting INGLORIOUS BASTERDS for American theaters? “No fucking way!,” says Harvey Weinstein. One half of the Weinsteins behind the film’s US distributor told GQ that the stories of 40-minutes being cut from BASTERDS are “all untrue” and “nuts.”...

Bruno freaks Conan

Posted 17 years ago

After the Los Angeles premiere of BRUNO last night, Bruno showed up on “The Tonight Show” last night and hung out with Conan O’Brien. And by “hung out,” I mean “did a strip tease for” and “thrusted his package at.”...

Your review: TF2

Posted 17 years ago

What was once aiming to be the biggest movie of the summer, TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, will most assuredly be the biggest something of the summer. Jenna Busch said it was “awful” in her review. Arrow said it was...

EXCL: Hurt Locker clip!

Posted 17 years ago

With the Best Picture nominees at the Oscars now expanded to a category of ten, THE HURT LOCKER is absolutely in the running for the top prize. Not that it wasn’t qualified before the announcement (because as far as I’m...

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