Do you like pre-order deals? Are you a cynic who believes that such deals are in place only to minimize shipments to brick-and-mortar game stores so that only pre-orders can be filled? Either way, you probably like free money, even if it is virtual. Best Buy is currently running a promotion which promises a gift … Continue reading
Loading up its animation docket as if it were going up against the likes of Dreamworks and Pixar, Sony is returning to the supernatural dwelling genre that spawned its Oscar nominated Monster House with Hotel Transylvania. As only the luck of classic monsters would have it, Frankenstein’s lovingly sewn monster-man, the Mummy, Dracula and Wolf … Continue reading
I know a few of you readers are familiar with the Pang Brothers’ work. The CHUD Message Boards have an Asian film thread longer than Tom Sizemore’s rap sheet to attest to the fact that Asian films (and their proponents) are making it huge here in the States. The Pangs are the creators of the … Continue reading
TVT Records Website Buy Lumidee at Amazon Buy Ying Yang Twins at AmazonThere’s a certain reason why I’m schlepping out reviews here at CHUD and not Billboard.com, Vibe, or some other music site. Well, actually there’s two: one is that Dave Davis wasn’t working for any of those guys, and two is that I can … Continue reading
Last year Fox found major success with the MySpace screenings of Borat, which sent thousands of people out of theaters with the kind of killer buzz no ad campaign can create. Now they’re trying to get the same reaction from Reno 911!: Miami, the big screen version of the hit Comedy Central improv cop show. … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Tartan VideoMSRP: $22.95RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 111 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Feature Commentary w/ director• Feature Commentary w/ lead actor• Deleted scenes w/ optional commentary• Set design featurette• TrailersThe Pitch "It’s not-really Taxi Driver meets Herman Melville’s Redburn!" The Humans Kay Tong Lim (Brokedown Palace), Sunny Pang, Ivy Cheng The Nuthshell Harry … Continue reading
A few years ago, some South Pacific-cruising Tiger shark decided there wasn’t enough big screen shark carnage and did something about it. He promptly bit off professional surfer Bethany Hamilton’s arm as she paddled out to sea on her surfboard in Hawaii*. The chomping inspired a terribly titled book called Soul Surfer and thanks to … Continue reading
Michael Caine was famously on the set of Jaws: The Revenge when he won his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters. Helen Mirren will probably be in the Kodak Theater on Oscar night to collect her all but inevitable award for The Queen, but she was on set in England the day the nominations were … Continue reading
Continuing to aid in HDNet’s expansion beyond a love for boobies in Hi Def, HDNet Films has been expirementing with lower budget High Def filmmaking and has released a couple films (the experimental Steven Soderbergh multi media blast Bubble and the doc Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) over the last two years. The … Continue reading
I’m not sure if there is a more tried-and-true plot for the modern thriller than the one where terrorists or criminals take some average Joe or Jane, kidnap their family, then force them to do some criminal act to save them. Then, in the last act of them film, our protagonist uses what they know … Continue reading