Dave Davis

THOR’S COMIC COLUMN

Spellgame: This is one swindler who deserves to take your money By Graig Kent There’s something to be said about the power of the cover image. I’ve been seeing the Darwin Cooke cover illustration for Spellgame #1 in the backs of Speakeasy’s comics for about three months now and every time I see it I … Continue reading

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit $16,100,000 $16,100,000 1 2 Flightplan $10,700,000 $60,900,000 3 3 In Her Shoes $10,000,000 $10,000,000 1 4 Two for the Money $8,300,000 $8,300,000 1 5 The Gospel $8,000,000 $8,000,000 1 6 Corpse Bride $6,500,000 $42,100,000 4 7 Waiting $5,700,000 $5,700,000 1 … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: HOUSE OF D

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Lions GateMSRP: $27.99RUNNING TIME: 97 min.RATED: RSPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary• Deleted scenes• Featurettes David Duchovny spent nearly a decade on The X-Files, even writing and directing several episodes himself. Outside of a brief appearance as a conspiracy theorist/hand model in Zoolander, his post-Mulder career hasn’t been especially notable, so it … Continue reading

300 RECRUITS SOME TROOPS

Dawn of the Dead ’04 director Zach Snyder is getting his giant green screen ready for 300, and now he’s got several humans to stand in front of it. The movie, an adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel, stars Scotsman Gerard Butler as Spartan king Leonidas, who rallied his hardy troops against Xerxes and his … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 10.6.05

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

FAVREAU GETS HIS ASS TO MARS

If you showed me Swingers a few years ago and said “See that insecure guy who can’t get over his last girlfriend?  Some day he’ll direct a huge effects-driven franchise-starting sci-fi flick based on a classic series of novels,” I probably would’ve responded with something like, “Really?”  Well, perhaps with slightly more incredulity, but that … Continue reading

EMMERICH TRASHES THE PAST

He already froze North America, wrecked a bunch of Manhattan with a legendary radioactive lizard (and said lizard), and exploded a whole bunch of global landmarks with flying saucers.  Now Roland Emmerich is venturing into the past for more stuff to destroy. The director best known for pitting two cinematic icons against each other (winner: … Continue reading

TALKIN’ ROMERO

In case you haven’t been by our horror-centric offspring Creature Corner lately, CHUD regular and great Brit Dan Whitehead has picked up the reins and will begin flaying your flesh with all sorts of juicy horror-related news and reviews and random chunks of grue (I’ll be contributing the occasional pound of flesh myself). A good … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 10.5.05

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