Matthew Jeanes
I've been following CHUD daily since 2002. Until recently, I spent most of my free time recording and performing electronic music, but the prospect of being stuck at a club at 3 A.M. and waiting for a promoter to drive me to a place to crash on a couch has lost some of its allure. In 2009, I got married at the Plaza Theatre--Atlanta's oldest continuously operating cinema! We followed the ceremony with cupcakes, popcorn, and a screening of Big Trouble in Little China with all of our guests. I now live happily with my wife and our two dogs in Atlanta.
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Atlanta offers plenty of opportunities to see advanced screenings. Over the years, I've been to a lot of them--many sponsored by CHUD and others promoted by various radio stations, local stores,...
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is the world's first movie version of Breakcore, even if that wasn't Edgar Wright's intention. The comic is a manic, high-speed blender of manga, indie rock, v...
When Big Fish came out, it occurred to me that Tim Burton and Jean Pierre Jeunet were both mining the quirky cinematic space of magical realism, but that Jeunet was more adept at making style and...
The potential matchup between Germany and Holland in the World Cup Final this year (didn't happen--SPOILER!) got me thinking about that amazing teaser trailer for the Dutch-produced Nazi-Zombie film...
In honor of Independence Day, I put together a list of movies aligned with each of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Call it a Cinematic Bill of Rights. I prom...
The contemporary film geek is inundated with news about Anime features and creepy J-Horror films being remade in the west, but Japanese cinema offers so much more than that. My wife and I dedica...
I've been watching more soccer than movies for the last two weeks but I've still been putting together a movie list to accompany the World Cup. A friend of mine runs the best video rental store ...
Splice is the second movie this year (after Daybreakers) that left me buzzing about what could have been. Plenty of films don't even warrant that--they are so bad or so middling that...
It’s a disastrous time to be a movie lover. The movies themselves are part of the problem, but for folks who like to spend a few hours at the cinema in a darkened auditorium, the public pa...
One weekend during the summer of 2008 when my wife and I were just getting to know each other, she was feeling a little down and she wanted me to bring over a movie to cheer her up. The order ...
