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Liam Neeson Sank My Battleship
Peter Berg’s big-budget sci-fi action film has gradually been adding star power in recent days, and now it looks like they have their biggest and brightest star, Liam Neeson. He will play Admiral Shane,...
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Zombieland 2 Has A First Draft, And A Director Who Likes To See Things Fly At His Face
Talk of a “Zombieland” sequel began almost immediately after the film had a big opening weekend. This is something I welcome. Despite my reluctant acceptance that fast zombies aren’t going away anytime soon, the...
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Judge Dredd Is Now Just Dredd, But It Comes With A Synopsis
The upcoming adaptation of the “Judge Dredd” comics has now been retitled “Dredd”, this according to IM Global, one of the primary studios behind the film. They also released an official synopsis of the...
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Olivia Thirlby Joins Cast Of Judge Dredd
Adorable indie sweetheart Olivia Thirlby is most known for playing Ellen Page’s sidekick in “Juno”, where she said lots of obnoxious things like “honest to blog?” It turns out that the 23 year-old actress...
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Machete (2010) Movie Review
I’m on a pretty good roll lately as far as movies being exactly what I want them to be. “The Expendables” was a solid attempt to recreate a 1980s style action flick driven by...
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Solitary Man (2009) Movie Review
In movies there is often a certain romance associated with people who live every day like it may be their last, who live like there is no tomorrow. Film celebrates those people who just...
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Ridley Scott Drops Alien Prequel News
72 year-old director Ridley Scott sat down with the Independent where he dropped a few little nuggets about his upcoming pair of “Alien” prequels. Set 30 years before the 1979 original, so with no...
Read More »Will Tom Cruise Venture To The Mountains Of Madness?
It was reported in July that Guillermo del Toro will direct an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s novella, “At the Mountains of Madness”, in 3D, with James Cameron producing the whole shebang for Universal. There...
Read More »Barry Levinson’s Viral-Eco-Horror Emerges From The Bay
When you hear the name Barry Levinson your thoughts don’t immediately leap to science fiction. Sure, he made “Sphere”, but he is most known for touching dramatic comedies like “Diner”, “Rain Man”, and “Good...
Read More »Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Undead
The rights for S.G. Browne’s romantic zombie comedy novel “Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament” were bought and optioned as soon as the book actually made it into print. Diablo Cody is going to produce the...
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Contagion Continues To Spread
Stephen Soderberg’s action thriller “Contagion” already has the A-list cast you’ve come to expect from his movies. Matt Damon, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, and Marion Cotillard, are already cast. Now he’s added...
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Locke & Key Gets Commitment From Fox
Last week it was reported that Joe Hill’s comic “Locke & Key” is going to be adapted for TV by producing team Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and Dreamworks TV. Josh Friedman, creator of...
Read More »Bob Hoskins To Battle Aliens With Willem Dafoe
My first exposure to Bob Hoskins was as the hardscrabble detective in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”, so it came as a bit of a shock when I later encountered him being kind of a...
Read More »New Trailer For Gao Qunshu’s Wind Blast
Director Gao Qunshu presented a new trailer for his upcoming action thriller “Wind Blast”. The film is a contemporary Chinese western where four police detectives must track down a murder suspect and his girlfriend....
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Ghostbusters 3 News, The Gang’s All Back
I watched “Ghostbusters” yesterday, and it is still an incredible movie. No matter how many times I hear it, Bill Murray saying, “Yes it’s true, this man has no dick”, makes me laugh uncontrollably....
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Robert Rodriguez May Be Out As Deadpool Director
It looks like Robert Rodriguez and his bandana may not direct “Deadpool” due to scheduling conflicts. Between hyping “Machete” and directing another installment of the “Spy Kids” franchise (something I’m far too excited about),...
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Sylvester McCoy Isn’t Bilbo Baggins, Maybe A Wizard
There have been rumors circulating for a little while that Sylvester McCoy (“Doctor Who”) is going to play Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”. Apparently that is no longer the case. He is...
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Fury Road Has 130 Cars And 298 Real Stunts
Here’s some good news for people who like things that are completely awesome. George Miller is working on his long awaited “Mad Max: Fury Road” with Tom Hardy from “Bronson” and “Inception” as a...
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Stallone Wants Willis To Be The Villain In The Expendables II
I feel so out of touch. It turns out that 64-year-old Sylvester Stallone is on Twitter and I’m not. At least he’s using his fledgling account in service of the greater good. One of...
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