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Hellboy Replaces Whiplash as Conan’s Daddy

Via NYMag’s Vulture blog, it looks like Mickey Rourke is out as Conan’s father in the “Conan” reboot, and Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman is in. Anyone who has seen last year’s “Outlander” already knows that Perlman is going to make a pretty damn convincing barbarian...
March 13th, 2010 | Read More

Vengeance is GOOD!!! – Review of The Spectre Short

So with the release of the 2-disc and Bluray versions of “Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths,” came something new; the first DC Showcase animated short. For those not in the comic loop, DC Showcase was a line of comics that featured unknown or forgotten characters, sometimes alongside major...
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Your First Look at Robert Rodriguez’s Predators Trailer

I would normally save this for our sci-fi site SciFiCool.com, but since the “Predators” franchise defies all genre, thought I’d post it here as well. It’s the trailer that Robert Rodriguez promised would make its premiere at the shindig down over at SXSW, and was posted at the...
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14 Blades (2010) Movie Review

Of all the period action movies that the Chinese are cranking out lately, “14 Blades” is the one I’ve been anticipating the most. It stars Donnie Yen in his usual Donnie Yen role – a tough-as-nails martial arts fighter with few if any equals. Set in Ancient China, the film has Yen playing Qinglong,...
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The Storm Warriors (2009) Movie Review #2

With “The Storm Riders” having been a huge blockbuster hit back in 1998, taking the fantasy wuxia genre to a new level with its amazing special effects, it is perhaps surprising that it took over a decade for a sequel to emerge. Finally, a follow up has arrived in the form of “The Storm Warriors”,...
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Summer Glau Returns to Battle Bad Guys in NBC’s The Cape

Summer Glau hasn’t had much luck with TV shows, despite appearing in a lot of really huge cult favorites. Unfortunately “cult” doesn’t always translate into “TV viewers”, so her shows have been, invariably, canceled sooner rather than later. The usually ass-kicking...
March 12th, 2010 | Read More

First Look at Felicia Day as a Werewolf Hunting Babe in Red

Here’s your first look at Interwebs seductress Felicia Day as a werewolf hunter in her upcoming Sy Fy Channel Original movie “Red”. Looks pretty badass. Hopefully the movie itself won’t be the usual Sy Fy Channel Original turd. In the action-packed Red, Red (Day) brings her fiancé...
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Two More Kick Ass Posters Make Demands of You

MTV’s got your first look at two new, demanding posters for Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick Ass”. Check them both out below. Based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., “Kick Ass” follows Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), an unnoticed high school student and comic book...
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2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010) Movie Review

The amusingly titled “2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams” is director Tim Sullivan’s follow up to his 2005 remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ cult 1964 “Two Thousand Maniacs!”. Unsurprisingly, the film sees Sullivan basically serving up more of the same, with plenty of redneck humour, tits and...
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Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman to Switch Bodies

Eventually, that is. Not sure when exactly Ryan Reynolds is going to find time to actually do this comedy, what with the gazillion other projects already on his plate, but THR has him signed on to co-star with Jason Bateman in the body switching comedy “The Change Up”. From the writers of...
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Oscar’s 10 Best Pictures Movie Posters — the Honest Versions

Props to College Humor for coming up with these. I’m a little late (okay, a lot late) in getting to them, but they’re still worth a chuckle or two. Check them out — these are the movie posters for all 10 Best Pictures nominees if the marketing gurus were forced to actually tell you...
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Opening Today: Green Zone, Remember Me, She’s Out of my League, Mother, Our Family Wedding

Opening today: Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass takes Bourne to Iraq, Alice Eve is a way-too-hot chick for Jay Baruchel, Robert Pattinson falls in love with someone not named Bella, hell hath no fury like a mother whose child is endangered, and interracial wedding hijinx. Action junkies will be flocking...
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Hugo Weaving is the Red Skull in Captain America!

Or at least, according to THR, Marvel Studios is keen on getting the “Matrix” and “Lord of the Rings” star to sign on the dotted line to play the villain in their sure-to-be-epic comic book movie. The deal is currently in the negotiations stage, but if a trade like THR is already...
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Shrek Forever After Gets a Full Trailer

Yahoo! Movies has your first look at the full trailer for “Shrek Forever After”, the fourth entry in the “Shrek” franchise. Yep, there’s already been three installments already, where has all the time gone? This is supposedly the last one, but it’s anybody’s...
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Clive Owen to Shoot’em Up with Jason Statham in The Killer Elite

Via the Playlist, it looks like Clive Owen is returning to his “Shoot’em Up” form by joining the Jason Statham-fronted action film “The Killer Elite”, based on the novel “The Feathermen” by Ranulph Fiennes. Although when you think action star you don’t...
March 11th, 2010 | Read More

The Escapist’s Rupert Wyatt Directing Planet of the Apes Remake – UPDATED

Is it a prequel, a sequel, or a “re-imagining”? Whatever it ends up being called, it’s a “Planet of the Apes” movie, and Deadline says director Rupert Wyatt, who last directed the prison flick “The Escapist”, is currently the front runner for the cushy gig. If...
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The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day (2009) Movie Review

Troy Duffy has been promising for years that the Saints would again come marching in, but for a while it looked like Halley’s Comet would show up before a sequel. After a limited theatrical release last fall, “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” hits wide distribution via the home video...
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Fox Will Probably (Though Has Not Yet Officially) Cancel 24

God, I hope so. Look, I love “24″. I love Jack Bauer, as much as a man can love another man without living in sin together or going to a mountain retreat to complete one another, but man, Bauer’s time has come and gone, and I think it’s a good idea to end the show now before it...
March 11th, 2010 | Read More

Bodyguards and Assassins (2009) Movie Review

The biggest Hong Kong event film of the last couple of years arrives in the form of “Bodyguards and Assassins”, the latest blockbuster from director Teddy Chan and producer Peter Chan. A historical piece revolving around Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen’s visit to Hong Kong in 1906, the film features...
March 11th, 2010 | Read More

Prepare! Geisha Assassin Has Her Sights Set on Region 2

Earlier this year, I bought a copy of Gô Ohara’s directorial debut “Geisha Assassin” (aka “Geisha vs. Ninja”) for next to nothing at a local convenience store, and it remains one of my all-time favorite blind buys. The film is undeniably hokey, but Ohara’s knack for fluid...
March 11th, 2010 | Read More