Let’s get this out of the way: I’ve found myself nursing a crush on Jennifer Hudson ever since I saw Dreamgirls. Not being an American Idol tolerator, I didn’t know who she was before I saw the film at a junket screening, but she instantly won me over. I saw the movie again last night … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: Da Capo PressMSRP: $15.95PAGES: 412 This reprinting of Huey P. Long’s 1933 autobiography comes well-timed into the modern political forum. Long was a political of unusual celebrity for his time, and his understanding of democracy as a theory was tentative at best, downright naïve at worst. His tendency to … Continue reading
Danny Glover was at the Dreamgirls press junket in New York City a couple of weeks back, and I couldn’t resist asking him about his place in one of the most successful horror franchises of all time, Saw. It turns out that Danny was feeling a little candid that day… Are you surprised at how … Continue reading
— Hot on the alloyed heels of the geekalicious Transformers trailer comes the rebooted Transformers website. The site now hosts a message board, desktop downloads, trailers in HD and a glowing, spikey globe. The official website trailer has also added a special Easter egg for those who can’t wait to hear Peter Cullen as the … Continue reading
We Are Marshall is the most insidious kind of bad movie – the very well made kind. It’s an easy, often beautiful, movie to watch, and if you’re not inoculated against the most base brand of movie cheese, it’s an easy movie to weep over. But it’s still bad, bad at it’s very core, because … Continue reading
They don’t make movies like The Good Shepherd anymore. It feels like it slipped into theaters through a crack in reality, escaping from a parallel world that never experienced the one-two punch of Jaws and Star Wars and rather based its major blockbuster formula on the Godfather movies. But is there another alternate universe that’s … Continue reading
The image above is the Silver Surfer (aka Norrin Radd, for those puzzled by my crypto-geek headline) from the upcoming film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Fox had originally decided not to show us the Surfer until after the teaser trailer hit tomorrow because they wanted our first look at him to be … Continue reading
Are you excited about James Cameron’s return to the world of narrative filmmaking after almost a decade doing 3D fish movies? Is Avatar a movie you’re waiting for with bated breath? You’re going to keep waiting. In an interview with The Independent, Cameron has confirmed that Avatar is going to take a very long time. … Continue reading
Empire Online has a whole new gallery of images from Hot Fuzz, your favorite comedy of the new year. While looking through the images – which include everything from action shots to behind the scenes clowning – I came upon the one above and decided this was the picture to share with my CHUD faithful. … Continue reading
As much as I liked yesterday’s teaser trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers, the title of “Week’s Best Teaser” has been quickly transferred to Grindhouse, the anthology effort from best buds Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Click here to see it.The teaser seems a little heavier on Planet Terror, Rodriguez’ zombie film, but that’s probably just … Continue reading