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Now that Noam Murro has moved on to the 300 Sequel “Xerxes”, Fox has hired John Moore (Max Payne, Behind Enemy Lines) to bring the Skip Woods’(Wolverine, The A-Team) script to life. Word is that the story takes him to Russia where he and his son, John McClane Jr, will take on baddies together.

Skip Woods hasn’t written a good film yet. Don’t believe me? Check out his track record HERE. If they’re really going to make another Die Hard it needs a few things so it won’t suck. My list of demands is:

1. It needs to be rated R. PG-13 just isn’t going to cut it. Was Live Free or Die Hard good? It was better than I expected and certainly better than Die Hard 2, but it’s by no means anywhere near the original or Die Hard 3. We need an R rating to ensure a solid body count and at least one “Yipee Ki-yay, Motherfucker!”

2. Don’t bring his son into the equation. I’m sure the idea is to get some “hot young IT” actor to take the role and possibly carry the torch after Willis is too old. It’s a bad idea. We don’t want that.

3. Throw out Woods’script and start over with a different writer. No, I haven’t read the script, but I have seen Woods’other 7 films and I know that he hasn’t shown me anything I’d like to see in a Die Hard film. He lacks originality, sticks firmly to genre cliches, and his characters are 1 dimensional. I know Shane Black is busy with Iron Man 3, but he’d be perfect to tackle a Die Hard sequel if he could find the time.

4. This is possibly the most important demand…make the bad guy charismatic and awesome. I like both Timothy Olyphant and William Sadler as actors, but they didn’t live up to the awesomeness of Alan Rickman or Jeremy Irons. A Die Hard bad guy needs to suave, funny, and a tiny bit crazy. If we’re going to Russia why not use Gary Oldman? He played Russian pretty well in Air Force One?

5. This is more of an idea and less of a demand. Why not bring back Mary Elizabeth Winstead? She and Willis had good chemistry in DH4.

What say you peoples? Any more demands? Thoughts on Gary Oldman for villain in DH5?

It’s a giant flying squid in a thunderstorm attacking a plane. If that alone doesn’t make you want to watch it you have issues. “Altitude” is comic book artist Kaare Andrews’first full length feature and even though it debuted to some pretty lukewarm reviews at VIFF I’ll still give it a whirl. The premise is ridiculous, the trailer is more ridiculous, and it’s available on Blu-Ray on Oct. 26. Check it out below.

Hooray! It’s official! Christopher Nolan will direct the next Batman film! Here’s what the man himself had to say:

“It’s becoming inevitable, I’ll put it that way,” Nolan told Empire Online of “Batman 3.” “I feel myself falling into it, I guess. And getting it all figured out and I’m pretty excited about what we’re doing so… If I haven’t announced it, I think that people probably all know at this point that I’m doing it.”

No word yet on where this story will take the character or who the villain will be. I’m glad Nolan decided to return to the franchise as more than just a producer. Do you think he can top “The Dark Knight”?

I can’t think of one movie that I’ve been more excited for in 2010. The Coen Bros. “True Grit” has classic written all over it. Check out the trailer below and you’ll likely agree. The film will be released Dec. 25th. Enjoy!


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I’ll probably lose any geek cred that I have by admitting this, but I really don’t like Johnny Depp. I know somewhere deep down there is a good actor hiding, but he’s been so busy hamming it up with Tim Burton and Gore Verbinski for the last 15 years it rarely has the chance to get out. So the news that Depp will be reuniting with his “Pirates” shipmate Verbinski for “The Lone Ranger” is really no surprise. The only thing it really means is that “The Lone Ranger” is doomed. Any desire I had to see this went out the window when these two signed on. I’d rather watch Uwe Boll’s Holocaust flick than ever give this a chance. What say you?

That’s right, a Norwegian Ninja flick! What makes it even more awesome is that it’s based on actual events! Norwegian Ninja is the true story of Arne Treholt, a high ranking Norwegian diplomat who, at the height of the Cold War, was tried and convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. He was later pardoned, but the circumstances of his conviction remained suspicious.

After watching the trailer below it’s obvious they took more than a few liberties with the material, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t look entertaining as hell. Even more interesting is that upon release of the film and nearly 25 years after Arne Treholt’s conviction, secret service agents involved in the investigation have come forward and confirmed that they fabricated and planted key evidence that was used to convict him. The film is currently making the festival rounds here in North America, but no release date has been set. Hopefully someone awesome like IFC will pick it up and give it a proper distribution.

Thanks to Twitch for this nugget.

I know I’m seriously late to the party with this one, but I can’t get enough of this damn trailer. How can you pass up on Rutger Hauer as “Hobo with a Shotgun”? The name really says it all. This trailers is 100% NSFW and 1000% full of awesome. Check it out!

You know what’s right around the corner? Christmas. I can’t think of a better way to spend Christmas than watching a dutch film about a homicidal St. Nick. If that’s what you’re into then you’re in luck! Director Dick Maas is bringing us exactly that with “Sint”. If the trailer, which you can watch below, is any indication it’s going to be one insane little action/horror flick. Enjoy Kids!

Thanks once again to The Quiet Earth. Be sure to check them out, they’ve got a hell of a site.


Sint English subbed trailer
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So I’m sitting here at Firehouse Subs eating a sandwhich that likely contains the caloric intake I need for an entire week and I run across this little gem. A test film for a Russian version of The Transformers? It looks more like a commercial for the Sony Ericsson line of phones, but hey it’s still pretty damn cool. Check it out below and let me know what you think. Oh, and while I’m at it fuck you Michael Bay.

Thanks to The Quiet Earth for this one:

Transformers from repey815 on Vimeo.