We can now rest easy. The CHUD Curse is long over thanks to the success of films like Superbad, Pan’s Labyrinth, Knocked Up, and assorted other meats from guys we love and admire. For a while it seemed as if there was indeed a situation where we, like getting a Sports Illustrated cover or a … Continue reading
I dood it! It’s only fair to cocktease y’all on this one, because when I saw the headline at Variety, I (very briefly) got excited over the idea of Ridley Scott directing Red Tails. But then the whole "taps Ridley to write" thing took hold, and I realized it was John Ridley of Undercover Brother … Continue reading
NEW RELEASES Blades of Gloryd. Josh Gordonc. Will Ferrell, Jon Herder Blades of Glory unites Napoleon Dynamite with Ricky Bobby. Will Farrell and Jon Herder play figure skating opponents who have a huge fight at the awards ceremony at the World’s Winter Sports Games and receive a lifetime ban from men’s singles competition. Jimmy McElroy … Continue reading
BUY IT HERE AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PLATFORM: Xbox360; PCESRB RATING: MaturePUBLISHER: 2K GamesDEVELOPER: IrrationalTHE PITCH Industrialist Andrew Ryan — half Howard Hughes, half Ayn Rand hero — built Rapture, a city under the sea, and sponsored the scientific exploration of genetic alteration. Politics and intrigue nearly killed Rapture, and the remnants of the city might … Continue reading
Yet another high profile movie has been leaked to the internet before its release… but this time it’s a different cut of the film than what you’ll see in theaters this Friday, according to my sources. Rob Zombie’s Halloween is out there on the internet for all the pirates to see, and this cut is … Continue reading
The liberal conscience of cinema in the 1980s is ready to reconsider the war that defined his art. And while Oliver Stone completed his unofficial Vietnam trilogy back in 1993 with the largely unheralded Heaven and Earth, I’ve no problem with the director returning to the conflict for further inspiration; after all, he served and … Continue reading
For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been talking about ‘strike movies.’ The impending talent strikes have been hanging over Hollywood like Russian bombers in Georgian airspace: menacing and sort of scary, but not a guaranteed threat. Nonetheless, studio execs are doing what they always do when a strike looms: they’re stockpiling material to make … Continue reading
There’s no explaining the brilliance of Terry Crews. One must simply bear witness. Unfortunately, to do this in the past, one had to wade through some… wildly uneven movies: e.g. Friday After Next, White Chicks and The Longest Yard. Luckily, there are now two solid seasons of Everybody Hates Chris and Mike Judge’s cult classic … Continue reading
I could not be any less interested in Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf than I already am, which is flatline. I like the old tale, think it’s beautiful and timeless and Grendel’s a tough ass and all the requisite respectful nonsense but I still find it almost impossible to fathom the idea of lifting the 3-D glasses … Continue reading
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is one of those rare operas that crosses over into geek circles mainly because of the subject matter: a barber who kills his clientele and, along with his ghoulish landlady, turns their corpses into meat pies to be sold to the poor of London. It turns out … Continue reading