Mike Sampson

4,524 Articles Published

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

Thor to strut his stuff on Earth to the music of Foo Fighters

Posted 15 years ago

It’s been a while since we had a rockin superhero theme song. The last one I can remember off the top of my head is Nickleback’s “Hero” from the original SPIDER-MAN (though I’m sure the commenters will remind me of...

Jason Statham plays a thief, again, in upcoming Parker

Posted 15 years ago

Jason Statham seems to play two types of characters: thieves and badasses-for-hire. He just wrapped a role as badass-for-hire so for his next film, he’s signed on to star as a thief in the thriller PARKER. The film is based...

What Did You Think? We want your Scream 4 review!

Posted 15 years ago

As of this morning, SCREAM 4 was sitting exactly at 60% on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s the exact border between Rotten and Fresh and that looks exactly like what the early reviews for this film are. Right in the middle between...

A beautiful new Akira poster most of us will never own

Posted 15 years ago

One of my favorite films is Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1989 animated epic AKIRA. I still remember the clerk at the video store recommending it to me when I was a young teen, bringing it home and falling almost instantly in love....

Get a closer look at the damn, dirty apes with this hi-res Rise of the Planet of the Apes concept art

Posted 15 years ago

In the WETA livestream the other day promoting the FX wizardry behind RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, there were some brief flashes of some concept art from the film. If that went by too quickly for your tastes...

The 2011 Cannes Film Festival lineup!

Posted 15 years ago

The Cannes Film Festival unveiled its lineup for 2011 and it’s very much what you would expect from Cannes. There’s the Woody Allen film (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS), the big Hollywood blockbuster playing out of competition (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON...

Video of the trailer of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes!

Posted 15 years ago

If you’re selling me on the technical wizardry behind RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, I’m sold. Everything we saw yesterday in the WETA livestream and today in the brand new trailer for the film, the mo-cap realization of...

Exclusive: Going movie shopping with director Wes Craven!

Posted 15 years ago

Legendary horror director Wes Craven was nice enough to swing by Amoeba Records with us last week to talk about his upcoming film SCREAM 4. And perhaps even cooler, he stuck around to film a little piece for a new...

Universal picks up rights to Green Day musical American Idiot

Posted 15 years ago

After dropping an adaptation of the Broadway musical “In the Heights,” Universal is getting back into the movie musical game picking up the rights to Green Day’s AMERICAN IDIOT. Tom Hanks is producing the film with Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black...