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

Dark Knight Rises viral continues: See the IMAX prologue early!

Posted 14 years ago

So the countdown on the viral clock over at THE DARK KNIGHT RISES site Operation Early Bird is about to tick to zero and I’m assuming we’ll then begin the next phase of the TDKR viral game. Some enterprising folks...

Alexandre Aja set to direct adaptation of Joe Hill’s Horns

Posted 14 years ago

Alexandre Aja deftly combined horror and comedy with his last film PIRANHA 3D and is now set to mine similar ground with an adaptation of Joe Hill’s HORNS. The book, written by Stephen King’s son using a pseudonym, follows a...

Eddie Murphy to star as Marion Barry for Spike Lee

Posted 14 years ago

Back during his promotional tour for TOWER HEIST, Eddie Murphy vowed that his days of filming family-friendly comedies were behind him telling Rolling Stone, “I don’t have any interest in that right now…I’m trying to do some edgy stuff.” Staying...

I’m not sure why there’s a third Madagascar film but there is and here’s the trailer

Posted 14 years ago

So here we are. There’s a third MADAGASCAR movie on the way, which might make this the most inexplicable franchise in recent memory. The first film was nice enough, I guess, and the second film existed to see if it...

Check out the final poster for American Reunion

Posted 14 years ago

I’ve been pleasantly surprised, for the most part, with what they’ve been able to do with AMERICAN REUNION, a sequel/reboot-y thing that I never really cared about. The high school reunion angle makes sense as a reason to get all...

Cool Videos: Will Ferrell wants you to drink Old Milwaukee

Posted 14 years ago

Most A-list actors are afraid of filming commercials here in the US (instead, they go internationally where the don’t think American audiences will see their spots) but Will Ferrell has never shied away from being a spokesman. In the past,...

UNpopular Opinion: Batman Begins

Posted 14 years ago

Written by:Austen Stroh [Ed. note: 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....

James Cameron: Again with the Titanic?

Posted 14 years ago

Oh boy, here he goes again. James Cameron is once again returning to the world of TITANIC for the upcoming National Geographic documentary “Titanic: Final Word with James Cameron,” which I have a feeling will NOT be James Cameron’s final...

Cool Videos: Dragon Tattoo goes viral with Hard Copy report on film’s murder

Posted 14 years ago

I think David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is the kind of movie that doesn’t really need a viral campaign, especially one that treats the events in the movie as if they were real. I mean, it was...

Zoe Kravitz and Sophie Okonedo join Will Smith’s Shyamalan film

Posted 14 years ago

So this is actually happening, huh? 1000 A.E., Will Smith’s planned team up with writer/director M. Night Shyamalan is moving forward as Smith has found two female co-stars in Zoe Kravitz and Sophie Okonedo. The two women will play Smith’s...

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