ESSENTIAL CHUD – DAY TWENTY-FOUR
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UPDATE: THE CHUD MAP!
Note from Nick: This was fun. Let’s resume! That’s the official CHUD map, and it won’t be complete until you add yourself to it. Each of those dots represents the location of one loyal CHUD reader, and now you can add yourself. Simply go to http://www.frappr.com/chud and enter your name, zip code and a little … Continue reading
MACHT ELECTION
Greg Rucka is great. His comic book work, primarily the Queen and Country series, is oftentimes better than the love of a grandmother and his work as a novelist ain’t too shabby either. As a downside, he is friends with Thor’s Comic Column scribe Sean Fahey, and we all know what kind of chore that … Continue reading
BROKEBACK MARVEL
There are not many A-list superheroes waiting in the wings to be adapted into movies, so attention has turned to the B and C-list, with varying degrees of success. Ghost Rider recently proved that a superhero movie doesn’t need to have brand recognition to succeed. Or a good script, acting or action scenes, for that … Continue reading
BOND GOES BLIND
It’s been a quiet couple of years for Fernando Meirelles, who came out of the gate strong with City of God and followed up nice with The Constant Gardener. Now the Brazialian director has a third picture lined up: an adaptation of the novel Blindness by Jose Saramago. (Buy the book from CHUD!) (OK, maybe … Continue reading
CHEADLE FEELS KIND OF BLUE
Don Cheadle is an amazingly busy man. In addition to working on the book ‘Not On Our Watch’, which arose from his time in Africa working on Hotel Rwanda, his own Crescendo Productions has five pictures in the pipline, starting with Cheadle’s (new) directorial debut: a biography of legendary trumpeter Miles Davis. The Davis biopic … Continue reading
MOSTOW LOADS IT UP
So Terminator 3 was kind of a ho-hum experience. The explodey chase-fest had action and peril, but was just missing soul. U-571 was a round of old fashioned submarine paint by numbers but still delivered a satisfyingly good time. Yeah, I’m segueing into likeable Jonatan Mostow, the guy with only two major releases this decade … Continue reading
MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 03.15.07
It’s Thursday, Ninja Turtles are awesome, and the world mourns for Caesar. All of which might explain where there’s so little of substance to report today. The crazy folks at the Wikipedia project have launched gaming.wikia to join their music, auto, and health community pages. These "wikia" aren’t exactly like the encyclopedia-format Wikipedia, instead filling … Continue reading
DAILY GRABOID – 3.14.07
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
DVD REVIEW: JEFFERSONS, THE – SEASON 6
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: Sony PicturesMSRP: $29.95 RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 572 minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: ZilchThe Pitch Season 6 of George, Weezie, door slams, zebra and white jokes. The Humans Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover, Paul benedict, Mike Evans, Berlinda Tolbert. "You know, Weezie, the ’70s suck. I can’t … Continue reading