The Wright Stuff film festival at LA’s New Beverly theater continues… to kick ass. Friday may have been my favorite of the series so far, as Shane Black showed up to talk about how much he hates The Last Boy Scout and how much Warner Bros hated Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Shane showed up about … Continue reading
Anyone who’s seen The Devil’s Backbone knows that Guillermo Del Toro loves his atmospheric horror. Which is why we’re so exited to be able to offer you an advance screening of The Orphanage, a creepy looking movie produced by the main Mexican himself.The movie comes out the 28th, but we’ve got a screening for Thursday, … Continue reading
Frank Marshall, producer of the Indiana Jones films, dropped some story and character details to USA Today while flogging the teaser poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. If you’ve been following the movie here at CHUD most of this info will be old news, but it’s nice to get it … Continue reading
Hold your nose. The Wayans Brothers (Keenan Ivory, Marlon and Shawn) have taken their signature brand of idiocy — the spoofish buffonery that spawned four Scary Movie films and over $420 million for Dimension — to Paramount, where they’ll, er, mount a similarly-minded flick in dubious honor of cop movies. There’s no title, and not … Continue reading
Can Bioware do it again?
Damn it. How do I criticize THAT?
For all the complaining I have been doing about Star Trek XI (you know: bad cast, stupid plot, directed by a guy who who is suited for 32 inch screens), I have to give the movie some credit. They’ve included Orion Slave Girls. These green skinned babes appeared in original Star Trek episodes like The … Continue reading
French movie magazine CineLive has a very clear, well lit photo of the newest iteration of the Batman suit from The Dark Knight and I have to wonder if the film isn’t going to be a Transformers crossover. Why is the suit so busy? And what’s happened to the batsymbol? The symbol is completely lost … Continue reading
I’m incredibly happy to see the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York City Film Critics Online go for Paul Thomas Anderson’s unremittingly bleak There Will Be Blood as the Best Picture of 2007, but the last time the former group concurred with the Oscars for the top prize was in 1993 with … Continue reading
Do you know examples of really old trailers (older than Carrie) that give away the whole movie as egregiously as this one does? Drop me an email at devin@chud.com or post it on our message board.