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

Cool Videos: Animatronics are not dead!

Posted 15 years ago

You might think, what with the prevalence of CGI, that the art of animatronics is dead. But if you saw YOUR HIGHNESS this weekend, you know that they’re still alive and well in the form of robotic birds, pervy puppets...

Get a closer look at Thor with a bunch of new images

Posted 15 years ago

THOR hits theaters in less than a month and Marvel and Paramount have some serious marketing push left to get butts in seats. They’ve tried downplaying a lot of the Asgard scenes in the TV spots, which mainly makes THOR...

New international X-Men: First Class trailer is the best we’ve seen so far

Posted 15 years ago

As a big “X-Men” fan, I haven’t been wowed at all with anything I’ve seen from X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. There are, at times, I forget that it even exists. It’s not that it looks bad necessarily, it’s just completely forgettable....

Disney turns Ice Cube’s gritty South Central project into something more family friendly

Posted 15 years ago

For my money, Ice Cube was one of the best rappers…probably ever. (If we’re keeping track, it’s something like Cube, Biggie, Jay-Z, Kanye, Rakim, Chuck D in no particular order.) But then he decided he was done with the rap...

Liam Neeson’s much talked about cameo cut from The Hangover, Part II

Posted 15 years ago

Once upon a time, Mel Gibson was set to make a cameo in THE HANGOVER, PART II as a slightly unhinged tattoo artist who gives Ed Helms’ character a very Mike Tyson-esque tat. But as quickly as news of Gibson’s...

Worlds are colliding in the first trailer for Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia

Posted 15 years ago

I’ll be honest – I didn’t know much about MELANCHOLIA, Lars Von Trier’s follow-up to the wackiness of ANTICHRIST. But looking at the first trailer for the film – which stars Kirsten Dunst, Keifer Sutherland and Charlotte Gainsbourg – it...

Ben Affleck to star as Leo DiCaprio’s nemesis in The Great Gatsby?

Posted 15 years ago

Ben Affleck has a decision to make. He can continue his career as a director, which has brought him more critical acclaim than his career as an actor ever did, or he can pursue an acting gig in a potentially...

Can Ben Stiller be the one to finally get the Walter Mitty remake off the ground?

Posted 15 years ago

On a spring day, 8 years ago, I was writing about a remake of THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY starring an A-list comedian. Now, on a spring day in 2011, I’m writing a very similar story. Ben Stiller is...

A self-described zombie hunter busted in New York City with swords, knives and night-vision goggles

Posted 15 years ago

Have you ever been to New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal? It’s my port of entry for all my trips to NYC so I’m probably more familiar with the depot than I’d like to admit. But it represents so...

What happens when the director of 2012 takes on Shakespeare? Watch this trailer…

Posted 15 years ago

Roland Emmerich is not known for his dramatic sensibilities. He’s honestly not known for much other than making big-budget, low plot, FX-driven spectacles that are mostly terrible but make lots of money anyway. His ability to make money granted him...

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