Paul Tassi

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Favorite Movies: Memento, Battle Royale, American Psycho, Gladiator, The Orphanage, Sunshine, The Ring, read more The Prestige, A New Hope, The Last Crusade, Snatch, Fight Club, 300, Evil Dead 2, The Matrix, 500 Days of Summer, The Lion King, Shaun of the Dead, The Dark Knight, Love Actually, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Likes: Macaroni and Cheese, Pen and Ink, Soccer and Tennis, Halo and read more Smash Bros, Rum and Coke, Mila Kunis and Kristin Kreuk

CAST THIS: Holden Caulfield

Posted 16 years ago

I’m looking forward to this column, which has me casting the leads in one of my favorite books of all time, even if that is a massive cliché. This week, we heard that it is possible that FINALLY the film...

Prince of Persia officially the highest grossing video game movie ever

Posted 16 years ago

After it came out, I said that PRINCE OF PERSIA was pretty good…for a video game movie. Now, there’s similar statement to make, PRINCE OF PERSIA has made a pretty good amount of money…for a video game movie. Yes, PRINCE...

John Lasseter returning to get Cars 2 back on track by co-directing

Posted 16 years ago

Pixar fans will undoubtedly know John Lasseter, the man who directed the first two TOY STORY adventures and A BUG’S LIFE. But when he left to be Chief Creative Officer at Disney, his involvement with Pixar lessened considerably. But what’s...

Megan Fox wants to make it rain in Gen 13

Posted 16 years ago

Megan Fox has hit a bit of a rough patch. After bursting onto the scene with two TRANSFORMERS movies, where she displayed her acting talent by running in slow motion away from explosions, her career has since stalled with JENNIFER’S...

Albert Hughes says his live-action Akira must be PG-13

Posted 16 years ago

I’m pretty skeptical of The Hughes Brothers’ upcoming live-action adaptation of AKIRA, as I’m sure many of you are. FROM HELL and THE BOOK OF ELI weren’t necessarily bad by any means, but not particularly noteworthy either. AKIRA is something...

Jason Reitman going back to school with Elliot Allagash

Posted 16 years ago

There are only a handful of directors that get my Oscar-sense tingling immediately; Eastwood, Scorcese and Cameron to name a few. But Jason Reitman would seem to have wiggled his way into that list as his last two efforts, JUNO...

Childhood memories BUT BETTER, Lion King being re-released in 3D

Posted 16 years ago

I would say this was inevitable, but really I don’t quite understand it. Producer Don Hahn was recently speaking to Empire about a number of his upcoming projects (including ROGER RABBIT 2 which he claims will make fans “very, very,...

Finally, might we see a Catcher in the Rye film?

Posted 16 years ago

JD Salinger always called his masterpiece, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE “unactable” and wouldn’t let Hollywood touch it. But that might change after his death, as his estate is strapped for cash and his successors could now let those rights...

Amanda Bynes retires from acting at 24?

Posted 16 years ago

Huh, well this is…something. A little while ago I wrote that Amanda Bynes was one of the last Disney-bred actresses who hadn’t turned into a party girl, and might actually have a legitimate career for a while to come. This...

Is Toy Story 3 really a Holocaust metaphor?

Posted 16 years ago

This is an interesting little article that will probably offend a whole host of people, but Jordon Hoffman at UGO had a thought that the plot of TOY STORY 3 often looked like a metaphor for the plight of the...

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