This is how I find out they’re remaking Escape From New York, with an announcement that King Leonidas (or the Phantom of the Opera, depending on how non-charitable you’re being) is going to take on the ultimate badass role that Kurt Russell originated in the 1981 classic. I know a lot of you found yourself … Continue reading
It’s official. CHUD.com has brought on a partner. A co-owner. In time, they may very well be the sole owner of the site, leaving me as the guy running the show but not the one writing the checks and trying to make sense of the business side of things, making sure we have advertisers and … Continue reading
Good news came today for acclaimed NBC sitcom 30 Rock, which was planning to go on break for more than a month to make room for the “seriously?” sitcom Andy Barker, P.I. Now, Zap2It is reporting that new episodes of 30 Rock will return on April 5th and will switch time slots with Scrubs the … Continue reading
You’d think a giant ape would be enough animal for anyone. Not Naomi Watts, who has signed up to headline an adaptation of Amy Sutherland’s book Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World’s Premiere School For Exotic Animal Trainers. (Buy the book from CHUD!) Sutherland spent a year at the school taking … Continue reading
Welcome to The Special Edition. CASINO ROYALE I’m just going to come right out and say it. Casino Royale was one of the best James Bond movies ever. I said, “one of the …” so give me some kind of break for that. The James Bond franchise had become a parody of itself over the … Continue reading
Above is the ‘gag teaser’* for the new film from Adam Rifkin, the guy who directed Detroit Rock City (a serious candidate for a future CHUD Essentials), called Homo Erectus. It’s a caveman comedy, and the clips and trailers that we’ve been supplied with (see below) indicate that this is what Woody Allen may have … Continue reading
Drugs are no stranger to the filmography of Darren Aronofsky; his Requiem For a Dream is a brilliant look at addictions of all sorts. Now he’s put the kind of visionary filmmaking that has made his name a beloved one around these parts to very good use – a series of meth commercials for the … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Red Envelope Entertainment MSRP: $24.95RUNNING TIME: 95 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: None. The Pitch Open up your third eye and check out the mana! The Humans Lots of humans, dozens of them in Elvis costumes. Behold! The power of mana! The Nutshell Wikipedia defines mana as “…an important force or … Continue reading
One of the more unique casts in recent memory, for a theatrical film at least, is coming together for the adaptation of a story from Clive Barker’s Books of Blood, entitled The Midnight Meat Train. The film is the story of a subway killer who in turn gets stalked by a down-on-his-luck photographer looking to … Continue reading
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