Here’s a sneak peek at my Top Fifteen of 2007: it won’t include Ratatouille. I still haven’t seen the latest Pixar film, which actually makes it the first Pixar I have not seen in theaters since A Bug’s Life. I would have liked to have seen it, but animated kid films don’t tend to appeal … Continue reading
I have to admit that I don’t understand why there’s so much secrecy involved with Star Trek XI. Even Karl Urban, seemingly woefully miscast as Bones, feels a little overwhelmed by it all: ‘I think the hardest part really is maintaining the level of security and secrecy that we have all been forced to adopt. … Continue reading
I haven’t read Neil Gaiman’s Coraline – I’ve been far too busy the last couple of years following the Harry Potter saga to bother picking up some kid’s book – but what I’ve seen of the movie makes this shit look dark. At the Los Angeles opening of The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D Henry Selick … Continue reading
Iron Man is starting to remind me of some girls on MySpace. No, I don’t mean that he’s covered in glitter and starts playing a Justin Timberlake song as soon as you open his profile. Sometimes you’ll find a cute broad and you’ll go through their pictures and you realize that they have the same … Continue reading
Fuckin’ Jake Rossen. For about two years I had been playing with the idea of doing a book about the tortured journey that Superman took from Superman IV to Superman Returns, and had even talked to some friends in publishing about it. Then I get an email from this Rossen guy asking me some questions … Continue reading
As craft, Atonement is astonishing. There is no denying that Joe Wright is one of the most visionary and gifted directors working today. His name would certainly be tripping off the tongue of CHUD readers as often as that other, equally talented, Wright if his chosen genre to date wasn’t romance films. And he has … Continue reading
In August we broke the story that a deal was close to happening to bring Dune back to the big screen. Our source said that there was a director attached who was a huge fan of the property; this set off a round of speculation, and many people began to say Peter Berg. Turns out … Continue reading
Does Kristin Kreuk’s agent have access to IMDB? How is it possible that he has allowed his client to sign on to a movie directed by Andrzej (Doom, Romeo Must Die, Cradle 2 The Grave) Bartkowiak and written by Justin "I’m the hot guy to turn to for all your shitty 80s nostalgia adaptation needs!" … Continue reading
I have to be honest with you: I was disappointed when I visited the editing room of The Ruins. Not in the footage I saw, which was actually bordering on incredible, or what director Carter Smith said, which was just about everything right (the films he used as a point of comparison were Lifeboat and … Continue reading
The site’s been experiencing some rollercoaster activity on the server – we’ve been up and down all day and I’m not sure the ride is completely over yet. Please stick with us, as our host is working on the issue right now. Thanks! Also, when the site is down your emails are not reaching us. … Continue reading