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

Tropic Thunder boycott

Posted 18 years ago

If you’re getting ready to see TROPIC THUNDER this week (and you damn well should be), get ready to nudge past some picketers on your way to the theater lobby. After some brouhaha last week about “Simple Jack” (a movie...

RIP: Two Soul Men

Posted 18 years ago

This weekend we lost two multi-talented men from the world of entertainment. Actor/Comedian Bernie Mac died on Saturday while Oscar-winner Isaac Hayes died on Sunday. Coincidentally the two were co-stars in the upcoming drama SOUL MEN (Samuel L. Jackson co-stars)....

Greengrass to Chicago?

Posted 18 years ago

At one point Steven Spielberg was attached to direct THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 with Sacha Baron Cohen and Philip Seymour Hoffman in line to star. As Spielberg is wont to do though, his interest turned elsewhere and the...

Who’s Spidey on stage?

Posted 18 years ago

You might have heard that Spider-Man is coming to Broadway in a musical directed by Julie Taymor (ACROSS THE UNIVERSE). While this is a fundamentally flawed idea, it’s moving ahead and about two weeks ago they held an open casting...

Godfather: Part 2 game

Posted 18 years ago

Of the first GODFATHER video game that was released by Electronic Arts in 2006, director Francis Ford Coppola said, “I had absolutely nothing to do with the game and I disapprove.” That didn’t stop fans from snatching up the game...

Iron Man DVD deets

Posted 18 years ago

If you’ve been drooling at the thought of watching IRON MAN on your home theater setup, you don’t have that much longer to wait. Paramount has announced that IRON MAN will hit DVD and Blu-ray on September 30th. The film...

1st Jen’s Body review!

Posted 18 years ago

Hot off the heels of the first ever BENJAMIN BUTTON review , we’ve got another “first ever” review today – this time a look at the horror-comedy JENNIFER’S BODY. Starring Megan Fox with a script by JUNO Oscar-winner Diablo Cody....

EXCL: Nolte rants!

Posted 18 years ago

One of my favorite things about TROPIC THUNDER has been all the crazy offshoots from the film. There’s the official site for the fictional stars of the film – Tugg Speedman, Kirk Lazarus, Jeff Portnoy, and Kevin Sandusky – as...

Where’s the TDK game?

Posted 18 years ago

At the rate it’s going THE DARK KNIGHT could surpass TITANIC as the all-time leading box-office winner in about two months. It’s a movie that has a ridiculous amount of toys lined up on the shelves of Wal-Mart and Toys...

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