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

Should Attack the Block, a British movie, get subtitles for the US?

Posted 15 years ago

ATTACK THE BLOCK had it’s public premiere in Austin, TX last weekend at SXSW and won cheers, applause and great reviews (I gave the film a 9/10) in the process. But curiously, ATTACK, one of the best reviewed films out...

Taylor Swift lends her voice to The Lorax

Posted 15 years ago

In DESPICABLE ME, Universal and Illumination relied on teen superstar Miranda Cosgrove to voice the film and help market to the young audience. For their upcoming animated film THE LORAX, based off Dr. Suess’ classic book, they’ll be relying on...

Get a glimpse at some new footage from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

Posted 15 years ago

Last night on ABC Family, during an airing of HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE, we got our first look at new footage from DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 since PART 1 was in theaters. I’m something of a HARRY POTTER...

Interview: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost!

Posted 15 years ago

As I think is almost always the case, the best stuff I ever get at a press day is always before the cameras are rolling. When I arrived to interview PAUL writers and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, they...

Interview: Paul director Greg Mottola!

Posted 15 years ago

I somewhat infamously lobbied for Greg Mottola, director of two of my favorite coming-of-age stories of the past 10 years in SUPERBAD and ADVENTURELAND, to get the director’s gig on THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, which is really a coming-of-age story wrapped...

UNpopular Opinion: The Departed

Posted 15 years ago

Written by: Felix Vasquez Jr. THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED....

Review: The Beaver (SXSW)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT – Walter Black is a toy executive who takes pills, reads horrible self-help books and sleeps all day to cope with debilitating depression. When his wife kicks him out of the house, he finds a beaver puppet, which accidentally...

SXSW Interview: Duncan Jones and Jake Gyllenhaal (Source Code).

Posted 15 years ago

The next morning after the world premiere of SOURCE CODE, I was able to sit down with director Duncan Jones and star Jake Gyllenhall to talk about the film’s reception at SXSW, adapting the script and working in the complex...

SXSW Interview: Duncan Jones and Jake Gyllenhaal!

Posted 15 years ago

MGM changing Red Dawn villains so as not to offend Chinese box office

Posted 15 years ago

The remake of RED DAWN has been sitting on a shelf at MGM for a while as that studio figured out how to crawl out of bankruptcy. Now two years after the production started filming, MGM is revisiting the film...

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