After watching 3:10 To Yuma, I could imagine Russell Crowe in the Christian Bale role, playing a one-footed rancher whose hardscrabble life has left him without hope and only one slim chance to ever be a hero, but I couldn’t imagine Bale in the Crowe role, playing an outlaw who relishes his badness and takes … Continue reading
What divides a disaster from a fiasco, artistically speaking? What is the line between a failure and a complete pants shitting? Whatever separates just plain fucking a movie up from inflicting pain on audiences, The Invasion lands firmly on the worst side of it. A terrible movie by any reasonable standards, The Invasion is a … Continue reading
This year has dealt a serious blow to my ability to claim any one film is the ‘best’ anything of this year, especially when it comes to comedies*. 2007 has been bafflingly rich in comic gold, and if you had told me back in February that Hot Fuzz might not be the best comedy of … Continue reading
A note from Devin: Heroes Season 1 is hitting DVD in a couple of days (click here to buy it from CHUD!). To get the word out, we’re participating in a multi-site scenario, where each site examines a different aspect of one Heroes tag line; ours was ‘How do you stop an exploding man?’My take … Continue reading
The Wire is a show so good that it transcends the usual bullshit discussion of ‘Best show of the decade’ or ‘Best show ever.’ Even trying to put modern well receieved gritty dramas like The Shield or Two and a Half Men up in competition would lead to the slaughter of everyone you hold dear. … Continue reading
The one sheet for Michael Clayton, Warner Bros’ Oscar grabber this fall, has arrived in the CHUD inbox and I am fascinated by how it manages to both be dominated by Clooney’s mug while also obscuring him. There’s a metaphor in here for how the new breed of megastars with serious intent approach their work. … Continue reading
We don’t know what the next James Bond movie will be about, but we may know how it will end – at Palio di Siena horse race. Don’t know what this Italian tradition is? Don’t worry, Wikipedia to the rescue:At 7.30 p.m. (July) / 7 p.m. (August), the detonation of an explosive charge echoes across … Continue reading
Four years ago Howard Stern announced that he’d be producing and ‘presenting’ a remake of Bob Clark’s teen sex classic Porky’s. In the years since it looked like the project had quietly just slipped away, as so many planned movies do. But now Slashfilm is reporting that Stern says the movie is back on track … Continue reading
I don’t have big Hollywood aspirations, but I have always harbored the dream of remaking a film called Blue Movies, a 1988 teen sex romp that sees two schmucks trying to get laid by making a porno. This basic concept still appeals to me at age 33, and I sometimes wonder if I had jumped … Continue reading
Way back at Comic Con in 2006, producer Lorenzo DiBonaventura told the press that the GI Joe movie would include Action Man, the British version of the old GI Joe (the one who was 12 inches tall), in order to maximize the film’s potential overseas. Now IESB has learned that Lorenzo has an Action Man … Continue reading