World of Warcraft is a weird game in that all of my friends who obsessively play it aren’t rank and file nerds. I know guys whose diets are mainly made up of coke, booze and pussy who log hours a night playing WOW. Actually, it’s also a weird game because it’s so unbelievably boring and … Continue reading
Hi, I’m Devin Faraci, and I’m the guy who is always saying how good an actor Channing Tatum could be if he was given the right roles, despite his Tiger Beat image. This kid is the goods*. Now Tatum is reteaming with the director who got the most out of him, Dito Montiel. Dito wrote … Continue reading
As Sir Ridley Scott gets older, he attaches himself to more and more projects, including ones that are quite simply ludicrous, like a movie version of Monopoly. Recently Scott sat down with the LA Times to talk about his current projects, and the subject of the Monopoly movie came up. Monopoly is still the most … Continue reading
You need to see Hot Rod just so you can say you were on the Danny McBride bandwagon a year early. 2008 is going to be this guy’s year, as he has an incredible supporting role in Pineapple Express, almost stealing the whole movie from Seth Rogen and James Franco, and Paramount Vantage is going … Continue reading
The Bourne Ultimatum isn’t just the best action movie of the summer, it’s one of the best movies of the year. And it’s a movie that stands up and loudly disproves a lot of long-held assumptions that we all have: that an action film has to be stupid, that a third film in a trilogy … Continue reading
I have interviewed Paul Greengrass more times than I have interviewed anyone else ever, and I have learned one valuable thing: when talking to this man, get out of his way. Paul will hold forth on a topic for a long time, and you just let him go with it because it’s never blustery or … Continue reading
Do you have like 90 minutes to kill? If so, you’re in luck – IESB.net has put up the entire Masters of the Web panel from San Diego Comic Con. This was the mega-event that sold out Sunday*, the panel that brought together a dozen web writers to talk about what it’s like to sit … Continue reading
This article includes much speculation and probable bullshit. It is presented to you as something interesting to consider, and not being presented as anything more than a very vague half-rumor.If you were one of the thousands of fans packed into the room for our Masters of the Web panel on Sunday at San Diego Comic … Continue reading
Latino Review is reporting that they’re hearing that George Miller, the man behind Mad Max, Babe and the huge hit Happy Feet, is being tapped to direct the Justice League movie. All of this makes a lot of sense. Moriarty over at Aint It Cool ran a news item this weekend saying that Warner Bros … Continue reading
My recent interview with Edgar Wright and Nick Frost for the Hot Fuzz DVD has set off a firestorm of interest among Chewers; in the interview Edgar mentions he had considered doing an entry in our Guilty Pleasures list (which I have been slacking on so badly the last few days. Sorry Nick, Russ, Jeremy … Continue reading