Alex Riviello
NYC native who lives with his wife in Astoria, Queens. Has written about film for five years for dozens of websites before finally settling down at Chud.com. Also freelances for various websites and publications, including Fangoria. Email him here. 
Blogs by this Author
Homebrewing- picking a name
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 01/21/2010
One of the stipulations from my gift of a starter homebrewing kit was that I had to get good at it and make a unique brew in celebration of when my baby is born. (It's due in June.) Maybe pass out bot...
Homebrewing
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 01/20/2010
My awesome wife got me a starter homebrewing kit as an early birthday present, which means that shortly I'll be brewing up my own beer. It's exciting. I've become something of a beer snob over the las...
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 11/30/2009
Sometimes you miss the boat completely. How is it that I'm only hearing about this incredible show now, five years after it aired in the UK?Those of you who are new to Darkplace, it's a show within a ...
Movies on Vacation
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 10/14/2009
I'm down in Key West for the week on vacation, relaxing, eating as much seafood as I can and smoking every cigar I can find. At a full week it's the longest vacation I've been on since I was a kid, an...
I'm hot blooded
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 08/6/2009
Last Sunday before our screening of Frankenhooker I somehow managed to come down with one wicked fever. I ran home early feeling like I was about to collapse, and found out with shock that my temperat...
My friend's kid has Swine Flu.
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 05/26/2009
No really, he does. There's a lot of it going around in Queens.Know what his parents did? They took him to the hospital, got him some medicine, and he's getting better. They put a tv in his room and a...
Things I learned in Montreal.
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 04/20/2009
Went up there last weekend for an Army of Two: The 40th Day community event, possibly the first of many. It was the first time I'd been to the city. You never get a chance to really check out the citi...
My cat tried to kill me in my sleep.
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 02/18/2009
So the other day I woke up, opened my bedroom door and was blasted in the face by the smell of gas. The window was a crack open- could it be that the asshole Con Ed employees working on the brownouts ...
American Pop
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 12/22/2008
Don't you hate when you watch a movie for the first time and kick yourself for not getting to it sooner? I've talked before about being addicted to Netflix's Watch It Instantly feature on my Xbox, and...
Hype.
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 10/23/2008
Just today I've gotten a ton of emails from people wondering if we're not hyping Let the Right One In too much. Devin started it on the site when he saw the film and (rightfully) fell in love with it ...
