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

Devil getting his due?

Posted 20 years ago

You might not remember much about THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER and the only reason I remember it at all is that it was one of the first movies I covered when I started here at JoBlo.com (still using the...

Halloween script review

Posted 20 years ago

None of the modern era HALLOWEEN movies have done much to reinvigorate the franchise but Rob Zombie is giving a shot at it with the new en vogue horror flick – the origin tale. He’s been posting pretty extensively about...

Pink Panther 2 coming

Posted 20 years ago

I didn’t think THE PINK PANTHER remake with Steve Martin was a total failure but I didn’t think it was a success worthy of a sequel either. How wrong I was. Columbia is moving forward with THE PINK PANTHER 2...

Depp takes on KGB

Posted 20 years ago

Johnny Depp has signed on to produce and possibly star in an upcoming movie based on the store of former KGB agent Alexander Litvineko who, before his death, claimed he was poisoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s people. The movie...

Greatest movie ever?

Posted 20 years ago

The movie is called DRIVE AWAY DYKES. You may have read about it yesterday in the LA Times. It’s a self-professed “lesbian road movie action sex comedy” co-written by Ethan Coen. It’s an ode to 70s sexploitation films, of course...

Bullock takes Tango

Posted 20 years ago

After roles in the Truman Capote biopic INFAMOUS and the upcoming thriller PREMONITION, we’re just about due for a Sandra Bullock clumsy-girl-unlucky-in-love- finds-her-inner-confidence-and-falls-in-love romance. Well good news, we’ve got one of those on the way. Bullock has acquired the rights...

Mamma Mia Meryl

Posted 20 years ago

Meryl Streep, who’ll likely add another award to her already stacked mantle with a Golden Globe for her performance in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, has signed on to star in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway hit MAMMA MIA!...

24 movie delays

Posted 20 years ago

“24” always seemed to me like one of the few TV series that would be fit for the big screen. All this talk about SIMPSONS movies and “Sex and the City” movies seems like lame attempts to cash in on...

Hobbit deal gets dirty

Posted 20 years ago

Back after RETURN OF THE KING swept the Oscars, you’d never guess there’d be any hesitation over making another Tolkien movie with Peter Jackson. Yet when the time came to think about a HOBBIT movie, things got ugly with New...

Another Jackass movie?

Posted 20 years ago

It’s only January of 2007 but we have now what can now be considered a frontrunner for the worst reviewed movie of 2008: HOSED. HOSED is a comedy about an overzealous guy who decides to become a volunteer firefighter and...

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