Mark Wahlberg in Shooter.  Oh yes.Ah, Mark Wahlberg. Sure have come a long way since Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, haven’t you? Oh yeah…Vince Papale in Invincible, Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights, and now, amazingly enough, you’re actually tasked to a film with none other than Peter Jackson—The Lovely Bones. And yet, you also took a turn around the conspiracy theory circuit as sniper extraordinaire Bob Lee Swagger in Shooter, a film of surprising depth in the midst of its gunplay.

Us moviegoers may not know that the shooting in Shooter was at least partially Wahlberg’s own chops on display—after training at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute as preparation for the role, Wahlberg was actually able to hit a target at two thousand yards.

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There was a time when American moviegoers wanted simple villains: zombies, vampires, aliens, and other single-minded creatures that are easy to kill. While monster movies have their place in every summer blockbuster lineup, we’ve begun to demand a little more. Sometimes, you just want a nice postmodern psychopath.

American PsychoIronically, no two men better represent the Hollywood psychopath than two of the most divergent serial killers on screen: American Psycho‘s Patrick Bateman, and Hannibal Lecter, the man who needs no introduction.

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Let me level with you up front, folks…I love John Carpenter movies and I hate Rob All the best of Halloween!Zombie movies. John Carpenter is responsible for some of the best, brightest, most original movies ever seen by man.

Rob Zombie, meanwhile, is a second-rate schlock monger and exploitation specialist extraordinaire whose work would’ve been innovative back around 1974, when The Texas Chainsaw Massacre first came out.

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Ben Stiller…T-Rex Skeleton…there can be only one!Proving that Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson will be movie buddies together until one of the two drops dead, Night at the Museum came out and did solidly well. Solidly? Who am I kidding? This sucker took in better than half a billion dollars. That’s billion with a “B”, as in “Boy that is a whole lot of money”.

You know, one of these days, I’m looking forward to seeing a seventy year old Stiller and Wilson doing Walter Matthau / Jack Lemmon roles. Think about that one for a second—Grumpy Old Starsky and Hutch. Yeah, I know. I got chills too.

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Like so many stories, it all begins with some friends who just want to party.

SuperbadDoes the world need another comedy about high school boys on a desperate quest to get laid? You wouldn’t think so, but Hollywood has plenty of room for more flicks like Superbad. Starring Arrested Development’s Michael Cera and budding “that guy” character actor Jonah Hill, Superbad is joyfully vulgar in a way that Clerks only aspired to be.

This tale of chivalry lends a certain depth to a high school student’s constant quest for alcohol: they’re more interested in impressing girls than getting wasted. Beneath it all lies the heart of the story; two close friends, who have been with each other for their entire lives, are afraid to be apart.

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