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City Island (2009) Movie Review
Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) is a corrections officer with secrets. The first one is that his lifelong dream is to become an actor. This ambition embarrasses him so much so that he lies to...
Read More »You Want To Make A Bob Marley Biopic Without The Rights To His Songs? Really?
Deadline reports that Emmy nominated British director Jenny Ash (who’s installment of “America—The History of Us” was introduced by Barack Obama) wants to make a biopic about Bob Marley. More specifically, she wants to...
Read More »Kurt Russell Is Back, With A New Poster And Synopsis
Kurt Russell is a badass and I wish he made more movies. He hasn’t graced the silver screen since 2007, though that situation looks like it will be rectified soon as he has a...
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Behind The Scenes With Resident Evil: Afterlife
Maybe it is because of the era I grew up in, but when I think of 3D movies a certain type of film springs to mind. I think “Jaws” in 3D. I think “Friday...
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New Posters For The Thing And Sanctum
This week the Australian International Movie Convention is taking place on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia (duh). As part of their coverage, Encore released pictures of the posters for the upcoming “The Thing”,...
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Dante 01 (2008) Movie Review
After watching Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s newest film, “Micmacs”, I started to wonder what has become of Marc Caro. It was an easy question to answer; I simply hadn’t taken the time to ask it before....
Read More »Is That Mark Hamill Or Not In The New Return Of The Jedi Clip?
This past weekend “Star Wars” nerds everywhere, myself included, crapped their pants over a long-rumored deleted scene from “Return of the Jedi” that screened at “Star Wars Celebration V”. The footage shows Luke Skywalker...
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Karl Urban is Judge Dredd
Rumors have been circling, but now Empire Online reports that it is official, Karl Urban will play the title role in the new “Judge Dredd” movie. The film will begin shooting soon in Johannesburg,...
Read More »He’s Taken On Evil Wizards, Now Daniel Radcliffe Faces The Apocalypse
With the impeding conclusion of the “Harry Potter” franchise, Daniel Radcliffe is trying to reinvent his public image, as if he wants to scream, “I’m not a little boy anymore, I’m a god damned...
Read More »Book Review: The Day After The Day After
In 1983 the made for TV movie “The Day After” exploded all over the faces of the American television audience. It famously drove home the potential horrors of nuclear war to President Ronald Reagan...
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Jason Flemyng To Play Nightcrawler’s Dad
Up to this point Jason Flemyng has appeared in all of Matthew Vaughn’s movies, a fact that doesn’t look like it’s going to change any time soon since it is being reported that he...
Read More »De Palma Still Playing With Toyer
Brian De Palma, who hasn’t made a movie since “Redacted” in 2007, is once again playing with the idea of adapting Gardner McKay’s novel “Toyer” to the big screen, according to Vulture. De Palma...
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Battleship About To Set Sail
Hollywood has a well-established tradition of turning every successful videogame into a movie. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any that were good. Because I like to torture myself I...
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I Saw The Devil Cleared For Release
After a whole heap of ratings problems, and some last minute edits, Kim Ji-woon’s (“The Good, The Bad, The Weird) new film, “I Saw The Devil”, has finally been released in Korea. Despite an...
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Fireball (2009) Movie Review
For years now I’ve been staying that what basketball really needs is more spin kicks and flying knees (there are already plenty of elbows involved). Finally, in “Fireball”, I have found kindred spirits, people...
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House (Hausu) (1977) Movie Review
The reissue of “House” (“Hausu”) hurt my brain a little bit. The best description I can come up with for Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 psychedelic mind-fuck, is this, imagine if Sid and Marty Krofft made...
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I Saw the Devil? Maybe not.
A lot of people, myself included, have been eagerly awaiting Kim Ji-woon’s (“The Good, The Bad, The Weird) new thriller “I Saw the Devil”. For audiences in Korea, it just got more difficult to...
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Pandorum (2009) Movie Review
At first glance “Pandorum” looks like it is going to be a straight up sci-fi action movie, which it certainly is. But in addition to that the film also crosses into monster movie, horror,...
Read More »Could J.J. Abrams Team Up With Bong Joon-ho?
There’s a rumor circulating around the campfire, and by the campfire I mean over at Slashfilm.com, that American jack-of-all-trades J.J. Abrams and Korean director Bong Joon-ho are going to hook up and make a...
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