Today is the eleventy-first birthday of projected film. Is that experience, the big audience seeing a movie projected on a screen, about to slip on a ring and sneak away from its own party? I don’t think so, but it’s at a crossroads that will determine if it’ll be around for another 111 years. On … Continue reading
I’d seen this image of Optimus Prime doing his best Mr. Universe impression with glowing eyes and ribcage a few days ago, but since it was on the cover of Empire, and since Optimus Prime can be seen in bootlegged sketches all over the internet and since this reveal was covered in a few other … Continue reading
When Silent Hill was released earlier this year, its clock was critically cleaned as underwhelming, nonsensical and plodding (read the CHUD review here). Yet, using a rusty machete in a real-life manifestation of the road to hell being paved with the best intentions, Silent Hill carved up some guilty fascination and laid it firmly on … Continue reading
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your friend’s nose, but you can’t pick your family. Or something like that.
Before James Brown’s newly lifeless body even had a chance to begin to experience rigor mortis, Brian Grazer and Spike Lee announced that they’ll be making a biopic about the revered R&B legend. To be fair to the newly attached at the hip duo, Grazer was involved in the project before Brown fell flailing 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
Am I totally nuts or is that Brian Posehn playing the preacher hitching Sue Storm and Reed Richards? If this is the case, I am preemptively declaring that not only did I like better Fantastic Four than Batman Begins, I am going to like Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer better than The Dark … Continue reading
As I was writing this piece I found myself a little confused. I felt like I knew that DeNiro was going to star in What Just Happened?. But how could I? All of the other sites were reporting it as news. I must have been mistaken. But no. A quick check of the CHUD archives … Continue reading
Val Kilmer has a reputation of being hard to work with. And maybe that reputation has kept him from getting some great roles in the past. But are things so bad that he has to revisit Real Genius, a comedy he starred in back when my voice was changing?* Virgin.net, without resorting to tactics like … Continue reading