(From the Banned in 2025 stories) Darl Jagofc/o Jagof’s Wholesale Personal Protection Devices Hey, Jagof, How’s business? I saw a report on the news the other day about the economics of your place, how there’s so much money flowing down from the rich the last couple of years. They just keep spending at places like … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck (I can’t seem to bring myself to punctuate it like the poster) is one of the year’s best films, and one of the great films in recent times. It’s a sober, factual and meticulous recreation of CBS News when anchor Edward R Murrow took on the Red-baiting Senator … Continue reading
The second week of October brings many goodies into your home, and it’s the unofficial start of a barrage of titles, leading through the end of the month. Zombies, men dressed up like Bats, green Wizards behind flowing Technicolor curtains and a certain debutante’s death by lancing will arrive sooner than later. But while you … Continue reading
Wow, two stories about Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg in the same day? It’s almost like when we seemed to have a new interview with those guys on the site every week for several months. But if anyone deserves mainstream success, it’s anyone involved with that flick. And now Tom Cruise is getting … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: 20th Century FoxPRICE: $29.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 144 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURE: • Interactive behind-the-scenes featurette• "Pilgrim’s Guide" text commentary• History Channel documentary• A&E documentary• Internet featurettes• Theatrical trailer [Note: the review copy sent to CHUD was apparently an early promotional copy, and as such displayed a text stamp across the bottom … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: TLA ReleasingMSRP: $24.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 120 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Trailer for Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance• Deleted Scenes It’s a bitch when writing a review for a release of a film you love proves tricky. Oldboy is such a review for several reasons. 1) Devin did an amazing job of officially … Continue reading
Do you remember where you first saw the movies you love? I do. A great many of them were projected in the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. It’s a little one-screen theatre, and not the most comfortable joint on Earth. But when I first explored Cambridge in 1990 after leaving a town inhabited only by … Continue reading
Do you remember where you first saw the movies you love? I do. A great many of them were projected in the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. It’s a little one-screen theatre, and not the most comfortable joint on Earth. But when I first explored Cambridge in 1990 after leaving a town inhabited only by … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DimensionMSRP: $29.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 95 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Making Of• Commentary The Pitch "It’s the orgy scene of Eyes Wide Shut with Cenobites!" The Humans Lance Henriksen; Doug Bradley; Katheryn Winnick; Chrisotpher Jacot; many Romanians. We’re half a decade past the ’90s but ironic horror lives on. After the death … Continue reading