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

What’s the 300 sequel?

Posted 18 years ago

You may have heard that Warner Bros. is planning a sequel to 300. No one really knew what to make of this news since 300 was based on a well-known historic event but now IESB has got the scoop after...

Leo says “Don’t Vote!”

Posted 18 years ago

Sick of all those preachy celebrities telling you to go out and vote? Well they finally got the message and a group of celebrities – Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston, Jonah Hill and Sarah Silverman among them – are asking you...

Battle LA gets director

Posted 18 years ago

For quite some time I’ve maintained that Jonathan Liebesman is a director with potential. This is despite the fact that I haven’t enjoy either of his two features – DARKNESS FALLS or TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING. Liebesman wisely ditched...

Yogi to the big screen

Posted 18 years ago

After the puzzling success of ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, you knew it was only a matter of time before more films based on 50s-era cartoons were headed into production. Now we get word that Warner Bros. is hard at work...

You. Seagal. Clip.

Posted 18 years ago

Admit it. You heard that there’s an exclusive Steven Seagal clip at Arrow in the Head and you kinda don’t want to click. Steven Seagal?, you ask. He’s lame and I don’t have time for that. But then you think...

Sheen off with Alice

Posted 18 years ago

Another actor has been cast alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND to play one of the fantastical characters of Wonderland. Though you might not think of Michael Sheen (THE QUEEN, FROST/NIXON) as the type of actor who’d...

Bond theme music vid

Posted 18 years ago

A while back I wrote a column about the best movie cameos in music videos (of course YouTube has signed pulled almost all the embedded clips making it pointless). It’s a phenomenon we don’t really see anymore. Case in point:...

New Goofy short

Posted 18 years ago

If you’re a fan of old school Disney animation like I am, you’ll be happy to know that they’ve returned to 2-D animated shorts that will run before theatrical releases. The first in this new line was a return to...

More Shia in Imax

Posted 18 years ago

Tired of seeing Shia LaBeouf in such tiny formats? Need your Shia at least six stories high? Well you’re in luck. Two of Shia’s upcoming films – TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN and Y: THE LAST MAN – are looking...

Shopaholic trailer

Posted 18 years ago

Few expected uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer to follow-up PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and NATIONAL TREASURE with an adaptation of a popular chick-lit novel, but the Bruck doesn’t care what you expect. The Bruck is producing CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, the upcoming...

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