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
The Roof is on Fire
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 06/4/2008
You hear the official line about the fire on Universal? Turns out that some workers were using a blowtorch to set some shingles to the roof of a movie set building. They finished up, watched it for an...
A Bucket of Dick Miller
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 06/3/2008
Ever see Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood? I just saw it myself after hearing about it for years, and really should have got to it sooner. It's a comedic take on Mystery of the Wax Museum that stars c...
Grand Theft New York City
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 05/8/2008
If you're at all like me, roughly 98% of all conversations you've engaged in over the last week have inevitably led to GTA IV. It's not something that's intentional, it just pops up... whether to both...
I got shot.
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 04/30/2008
I've lived in NYC all my life, have been to some pretty rough sections of every single borough, but it took a trip to Florida for me to finally be a victim of gun violence.Now, before you get all weep...
Back to EA again. EA again.
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 04/18/2008
Once again I'm back in San Francisco thanks to EA, who has me settled in comfortably at the Soiftel hotel down the street from their headquarters. It's weird how from one trip here I feel li...
Back into the fray
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 04/10/2008
Next week I'm heading out to San Francisco once again to visit EA for one of their community days- this time for Battlefield: Bad Company. It's funny, as much as people slam EA (sometimes for good rea...
Inochi- You are alive!
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 04/7/2008
Yesterday I broke my pledge once again to never head back into Brooklyn in order to check out the Murakami exibit at the Brooklyn Museum. If you're not familiar with the man (I barely was, outside of ...
Untold Tails from the Bronx Zoo
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 04/3/2008
This blog is half shameless plug and half "I'm secure enough in my manhood to think baby animals are cute" statement. The shameless plug part comes because a couple of my best friends shot, edit...
Alex goes Postal
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 04/2/2008
Sometimes being a writer sucks. Why? I spent my entire morning ruminating about Uwe Boll's Postal (evidence here). Not that it's the worst movie I've ever seen, far from it, but getting yourself so de...
My Night With Dr. Boll.
- By Alex Riviello
- Published 04/1/2008
So I'm heading to a screening of Uwe Boll's Postal tonight. I'm really hoping it's not an April Fool's joke, because I'm not stupid... I do know just know what I'm in for. I really should have learned...
