Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

You've seen this bit a million times in the trailers, but it's still pretty friggin' sweet.Mission Impossible: Ghost ProtocolStunts and Effects: 95% Logic: 14%Soundtrack: 85% TnA: 60% Cognitive Decline of Audience: 44% Overall Inches on the Action Erection Scale: 11 out of 12 There is a new Mission: Impossible out in non-IMAX theatres this week (serious filmgoers got to see it on the BIG big screen last week). Which, at least...

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DRIVE

DRIVE Stunts and Effects: 95%Logic: 90%Soundtrack: 90%TnA: 60%Cognitive Decline of Audience: 04% Overall Inches on the Action Erection Scale: 11 out of 12This is coming at you from the great divide. I've been pretty slow lately, but it's because I have a decent excuse. I'm working on a novel, and am going to self publish it soon, and have been toiling away in seclusion. But, I have been watching movies, and am here to report to you about...

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FANTASTIC FORUM EPISODE 30: STARING ME!

Hi Everybody, just to let you know, I appeared on the Fantastic Forum recently to discuss everyone's favorite capped crusader, BATMAN! We discuss what makes him great, what his best stories are, etc, and it's a whole lot of fun! Also, a company that produces REAL replica Batmobiles is visited and comic book artist David Finch (one of my favorites) is interviewed.Special thanks to Ulysses E. Campbell for letting me blab in front of a camera! You rock! It's a great episode, and can be viewed below.P.S I'm the guy with the beard. ;...

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Bitch Slap

Stunts and Effects: 90%Logic: 9%Soundtrack: 56%TnA: 89%Cognitive Decline of Audience: 90% Overall Inches on the Action Erection Scale: 11 out of 12The Grindhouse resurgence shows no signs of stopping. First it was Planet Terror and Death Proof in 2007, which was followed by (in no particular order) Black Dynamite, Drag Me To Hell, Piranha 3D, Machete, and Hobo with a Shotgun, but it seems that the home video market (and, in particular,...

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Die Hard

Back when Bruce Willis gave a fuck.Stunts and Effects: 95%Logic: 55%Soundtrack: 95%TnA: 20%Cognitive Decline of Audience: 20% Overall Inches on the Action Erection Scale: 12 out of 12When Die Hard arrived to theatres in 1988, it instantly fathered a number of cinematic bastards in its wake. Studios seemed all too eager to pitch the next big blockbuster as “Die Hard on a noun.” (Six years later, Speed would dethrone Die Hard as the go-to action...

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Apparently, There is more than meets the eye here....

Okay, Bay, you’ve won this round…. As we all know, TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON came out recently, made a crap ton of cash, and will probably spawn another sequel unless Bay and Spielberg are truly bored with the franchise and decide to take a break. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I have choice things to say about Michael Bay the Director. Most of it is harsh. As a matter of fact, anything after THE ROCK (1996) has probably put me in a hate...

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THE TOP 5 DINO DI LAURENTIIS PRODUCED ACTION MOVIES

I want you to name me a bunch of actors you can think of right now. Anybody. Go. Who popped into you head? Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? Arnold? John Wayne? Jason Statham? Bruce Lee? Pretty easy right? Now do directors. Go ahead. Who’d you come up with? Spielberg. Donner. Michael Mann. McTiernan. JJ Abrams. Zach Synder. Frank Capra. Now do producers. Pretty hard, isn’t it? I mean, think of your favorite movies, or just movies you like, and think about...

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