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

The Golden Globes nominations are here! King’s Speech leads the way with 7 noms

Posted 16 years ago

The nominations for the 68th Annual Golden Globes were announced earlier this morning by Josh Duhamel, Katie Holmes and Blair Underwood. Leading the pack with seven nominations was THE KING’S SPEECH followed closely by six each for THE SOCIAL NETWORK...

Interview: Tron director Joseph Kosinski!

Posted 16 years ago

It’s exceedingly unheard of for a studio to put a big-budget sequel of a major property in the hands of a director who has never worked on a feature film before but that’s exactly what happened with Joseph Kosinski. He...

Cool Videos: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly reenact David Bowie and Bing Crosby

Posted 16 years ago

One of the best holiday traditions every December is to watch the classic “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer” boy duet between Bing Crosby and David Bowie. The wonderfully bizarre duet took place in 1977 on Crobsy’s “Merrie Olde Christmas” TV special....

Who could possibly hate Toy Story 3? These people…

Posted 16 years ago

It’s not just a marketing ploy or an Oscar campaign: TOY STORY 3 really is the best reviewed film of the year. The film has almost 250 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and only 3 of them are so-called “rotten.” The...

First photo from Fast Five ratchets up the homoerotic tension

Posted 16 years ago

It doesn’t take a film student to notice the homoerotic undertones in the FAST AND THE FURIOUS film franchise. It’s obvious enough that SNL created the Digital Short “Fast and the Bi-Curious” starring Andy Samberg and Seth Rogen as two...

Vin Diesel to premiere the Fast Five trailer on his Facebook page

Posted 16 years ago

That is the art that Vin Diesel chose to post on his Facebook page along with the announcement that he’ll be debuting the teaser trailer for FAST FIVE. It is Vin, a tiger, a jungle and glowing turquoise eyes. Now...

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The power of Christ compels you to watch this trailer for The Rite

Posted 16 years ago

If I were going to make a horror movie, I’d probably steer clear of a movie about an exorcism. It’s been done to death and honestly you’re always going to be compared to one of the finest horror films of...

What’s in a title?: Making the perfect movie title

Posted 16 years ago

You and I might not think much about film titles but it’s a big issue for Hollywood studios. Director James L. Brooks recently said, “Titles make me nuts…I have a terrible time with titles.” Studios are putting more and more...

Cool Videos: Jack Nicholson wants your ass out of his face in this blooper reel

Posted 16 years ago

Frankly I’d be scared shitless to act alongside Jack Nicholson and that fear would probably make way for me messing something up. In the blooper reel from HOW DO YOU KNOW below, we get to see what happens when you...