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

Get a look at Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest creation in the trailer for The Dictator

Posted 14 years ago

It’s been so over-quoted throughout the past few years, it’s easy to forget just how good BORAT was when it was released. I don’t think I’ve laughed as hard at anything in the years since. BRUNO was good, but not...

Matt Damon has some harsh words for the director of the new Bourne movie

Posted 14 years ago

Next year, the BOURNE franchise will continue without Matt Damon as Jeremy Renner takes over the franchise in THE BOURNE LEGACY. While Renner won’t be playing Jason Bourne, Damon admits he was a little shocked by the news. “It was...

A star-studded cast sings 80s classics in this Rock of Ages trailer

Posted 14 years ago

I never saw ROCK OF AGES when it was a Broadway musical. It all seemed fairly ridiculous to me. A bunch of people pretending to be 80s fictional musicians singing non-fictional songs and doing so with the utmost sincerity (especially...

Thoughts after seeing the six-minute Dark Knight Rises prologue!

Posted 14 years ago

Last night, Christopher Nolan brought together a handful of journalists and friends in New York City at the largest IMAX screen in North America to show off the much ballyhooed prologue for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. I was lucky enough...

Exclusive: Check out Woody Harrelson’s Oscar-worthy performance in this new clip from Rampart!

Posted 14 years ago

Our own Chris Bumbray caught RAMPART back at the Toronto Film Festival and loved it, singling out the performance by Woody Harrelson at the center of the film. Sure enough, as Oscar season ramps up, Harrelson is one of the...

Cool Videos: The music video for Immigrant Song from Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Posted 14 years ago

The official soundtrack for THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO released this weekend and to kick things off right, they’ve released a music video for Karen O. and Trent Reznor’s cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”. Details on exactly who...

American Film Institute selects the 10 best films of 2011

Posted 14 years ago

I don’t want to get too into the pre-Oscar hoopla and what regional critics group selected as their Best Picture or whatever because I’ve already got awards fatigue and the season just started. But I don’t mind the occasional Top...

Here come the Men in Black in the first trailer for MIB3

Posted 14 years ago

MEN IN BLACK III has had all kinds of problems. Script problems, budget problems, giant-f*cking-trailer problems…but as we’ve seen in the past, all those problems won’t mean a hill of beans if MIB3 is actually a good film. Now, I...

Wrap up the LOTR trilogy with the Return of the King chat Movie Fan Central

Posted 14 years ago

Last week’s Movie Fan Central chat of THE TWO TOWERS was a huge success and the MFC’s largest movie chat to date, so you’re going to want to make sure you’re around this Sunday as we complete the LOTR trilogy...

Who needs Transformers 4 when you’ve got the new Battleship trailer?

Posted 14 years ago

I’m hardly the “cinema intelligentsia” that director Peter Berg refers to as the vocal critic of his upcoming movie BATTLESHIP. I enjoy stupid movies sometimes. Heck, I was the guy who liked COWBOYS & ALIENS. But I hardly think that...

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