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

Review: A Bag of Hammers (SXSW)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT – Two 20-something guys have a fake valet service scam where they steal cars from funerals and weddings and sell them to make money (partly to help pay for a sister’s college education). They’re hardly the best role models...

Crimson Bolt has a warning for evil-doers in these new Super posters

Posted 15 years ago

It’s no secret that I didn’t like James Gunn’s SUPER. I gave the film a 3/10 review out of SXSW (and was taken to task for it in the comments section. But what I can say about SUPER is that...

Whatever happened to the Mother’s Day remake?

Posted 15 years ago

Darren Lynn Bousman’s MOTHER’S DAY began screening for critics in the fall of last year. Our own Arrow in the Head reviewed the film and said, “Wow…what a movie!” so clearly there was some love for Bousman’s retelling of the...

Review: The FP (SXSW)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In a futuristic society, warring gangs battle each other not with knives or guns but with “Beat Beat Revolution,” a hip-hop dancing video game. When J-Tro’s mentor dies in battle, he retires from the game, but is drawn back...

Review: Bellflower (SXSW)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Guy meets girl. They fall in love. They fall out of love. Guy builds flamethrower and Mad Max style car. Then things get really weird. REVIEW: BELLFLOWER is the work of some very talented individuals. They will go on...

Cool Videos: Ruairi Robinson’s evil robot short Blinky

Posted 15 years ago

If the mascot of JJ Abrams’ production company Bad Robot got his own short film, it might look something like “Blinky™” a short film by Ruairi Robinson. In the short, which stars Max Records (WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE), a...

Production officially begins on The Hobbit, see two photos from the set

Posted 15 years ago

As “that guy who didn’t like the LORD OF THE RINGS movie,” I was eternally pleased when the trilogy was over and I could go back to living my life. Then came THE HOBBIT. Warner Bros. and MGM jointly announced...

Set sail with the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides trailer

Posted 15 years ago

I was hoping that this new trilogy of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films that Disney is planning would effectively reboot the franchise after two stale sequels left a bad taste in my mouth. But after watching this new trailer for...

SXSW: A Conversation with Paul Reubens, AKA Pee-wee Herman!

Posted 15 years ago

A few weeks ago I got an e-mail as tantalizing as it was brief: “Would you like to moderate a panel with Paul Reubens at SXSW?” I had seen the schedule a few days early and one of the big...

Interview: Paul star and Saturday Night Live MVP Bill Hader!

Posted 15 years ago

Bill Hader probably knows more about movies than most people who write about movies for a living. He, like us, is a giant film geek who loves watching movies as much as he loves being in movies. Hader, who’s the...

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