Want to win a Wii? Or a new Harry Potter game for the Wii? How about both? Here’s your chance. We’re giving away three prize packages to lucky readers: 1 Wii Console and 1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Wii game1 Wii Console1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Wii … Continue reading
Last week Manhunt 2, a game heavily promoted here on CHUD, was banned in the UK. In the US the game got an ‘Adults Only’ rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, meaning that Nintendo and PlayStation wouldn’t license the game for their respective consoles, essentially killing it dead. The game’s developers, Take Two Interactive, … Continue reading
I haven’t had a chance to write my review of La Vie En Rose, the Edith Piaf musical biopic, but when I was watching it I couldn’t help but think about Walk Hard, the spoof musical biopic from producer and co-writer Judd Apatow and director co-writer Jake Kasdan; even a French film about a big … Continue reading
What a tangled series of references it takes to bring you an Oh Don Piano story about Kill Bill Parts 3 and 4 – a UPI story that references Chinese news site crienglish.com that references Hangzhou-based ‘City Paper’ quotes producer Bennett Walsh saying that not only is Quentin Tarantino pondering doing the two sequels, but … Continue reading
When I hung out with Brett Ratner briefly in Vegas last summer, he asked me if I had read the pick-up artist book The Game. It was, he told me, his favorite book, and not just because he’s in it (he told me what page numbers, but I don’t remember them anymore). Brett Ratner’s definitely … Continue reading
You’re not crazy, it’s been forever since the last installment of this five part series, which I told you would play out over the course of a week. Now, maybe on Earth-C* a week lasts this long, but here on Earth Prime this is way late. Sorry. My original intention was to do this as … Continue reading
It was two in the afternoon and Ed Brubaker was on the phone with me slurring his words. It’s easy to imagine Brubaker, the guy who killed Captain America and who has written hard-bitten crime comics like Lowlife, Sleeper and now Criminal, as sitting at his computer with an open bottle of bourbon and a … Continue reading
We all know that there’s one thing a superhero sequel can’t have enough of: characters! And a scooper to Coming Soon has confirmed a long running rumor about yet another character who appears in The Dark Knight: The Scarecrow. Said scooper claims to have seen Cillian Murphy on the Chicago set of the bat-sequel, where … Continue reading
After one of the stronger debuts – Kicking and Screaming is now a Criterion DVD (and no, not the Will Ferrell one) – Noah Baumbach made some more excellent movies that never quite hit the popular consciousness and then faded away for a couple of years. Co-writing The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou with Wes … Continue reading
There’s going to be big Star Trek casting news in the weeks to come, with lots of info hitting the web before Comic Con, or so I’ve been told. But if a gossip story running in the New York Daily News is to be believed, one name you won’t be hearing in the cast list … Continue reading