Even with news slower than Britney Spears’ head-dropped child, I managed to miss a little nugget of info that the handsome Garth Franklin at Dark Horizons grabbed last week. Thanks to the folks at Cinematical I’ve seen it today: Hitman director Xavier Gens apparently told Le Film Francais that he might be directing the new … Continue reading
Weeks and weeks ago I told you that Gavin Hood wanted Natalie Portman to appear in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. That obviously wasn’t going to happen – let’s be serious for a moment, her career isn’t in quite that much trouble yet* – but that bit of director-based fantasy casting gives you a clue what Hood … Continue reading
Jeremy’s List – Devin’s List – Russ’s List – Nick’s List What a year. When you are gifted with a year like 2007, how do you possibly make a Best Of list? My top five or six films listed below could each have easily been number one for the year, and in my ways I … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago I was on the phone with Nick and he told me he thought people might enjoy reading more about what I don’t like about Los Angeles. The problem, I told him, was that there wasn’t a lot I didn’t like about Los Angeles; while it makes me feel like a … Continue reading
Ahh, slow news days. These are the days when I eat my lunch outside of the house. Such a nice change of pace. It’s these slow news days when we sometimes hit our highs – last year the holiday season brought me the gift of Zyzzyx Road – and our lows in the desperate search … Continue reading
Bailey Chase, one of the empty eyed hunks who appeared as members of the top secret military group The Initiative in a number of episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer* is running around dropping hints that he’s going to be playing Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. We narrowly averted having to deal with the second … Continue reading
A couple of weeks back we brought you translations of the German descriptions of a bunch of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Lego sets, all of which confirmed story and character points that CHUD broke a zillion years ago*. Now the IJATKOTCS (holy shit that’s an ugly acronym) Unofficial Web Blog … Continue reading
"Perhaps if I sip this sizzurp, I will be leanin too much to turn into the Hulk…" Universal has sent along their 2008 preview, and I’ve ganked from it some pictures that might be of interest to young fresh fellows like yourselves. Included in this set are the first two official pictures from The Incredible … Continue reading
My Fifteen Best list is still in formation due to the simple fact that there were so many goddamned good movies released this year that narrowing them down to a dozen and change and then placing them in order is a task and a half. I have an embarrassment of riches from which to pick. … Continue reading