A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was one of the biggest film surprises I got last year. Based loosely on writer/director Dito Montiel’s own experiences growing up in ethnically mixed Astoria, Queens in the 1980s, the movie is a perfectly evocative glimpse at a New York City now lost to history. But like all the … Continue reading
One of my favorite bits in Hot Fuzz involves Adam Buxton playing a small town journalist. I wasn’t very familiar with the guy before the film, but have developed a keen interest in him since. That interest has turned to complete and total fandom with this video, which Edgar Wright turned me on to. It’s … Continue reading
Tonight is the series premiere of the new sketch comedy show, The Whitest Kids U Know. The show, which is produced by Jim Biederman, aka one of the guys behind The Kids in the Hall, is pretty goddamn hilarious. I’ve had a chance to see the first episode, which airs tonight, and it’s a mix … Continue reading
Billy Wilder once said that a love story isn’t about what gets a couple together, but what keeps them apart. Knocked Up takes the opposite route with its main couple, as Judd Apatow and his crew spend the film’s running time not finding ways to keep Seth Rogen and Katharine Heigl apart but rather reasons … Continue reading
If there’s a director who has been working just on the edge of the mainstream who I have most been rooting for, it has to be David Gordon Green. He’s got such a unique sensibility, even though you could easily draw comparisons between his work and that of Terence Malick (I think Green is much … Continue reading
If you thought that the idea of a musical about the 60s set only to Beatles tunes had the makings of an epic disaster, you may have your intuition proved right. Julie Taymor is considering taking her name off Across the Universe, the aforementioned Beatles musical, because Revolution Studios president Joe Roth has re-edited the … Continue reading
Angelina Jolie is going to be a bad girl when she stars alongside James McAvoy in the big screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book Wanted. The actress has taken on the role of The Fox, the assassin who teaches McAvoy’s Wes the business of being a bad guy. At least that’s how it was … Continue reading
New York City funny people (and inveterate CHUD readers) Elephant Larry have concocted a beautiful tribute to the birthday of none other than Bruce Willis and his filmography of number-related movies. Take that, Jim Carrey. Once you’ve enjoyed The Twelve Days of Bruce Willis, head to Elephant Larry’s website, where you can enjoy more sketch … Continue reading
Clint at Moviehole seems to have some good contacts deep inside the Warner Bros facilities. I don’t know how some bloke in Australia managed to get those contacts, but bully for him, because sometimes they give him killer info. Info like this: Warner Bros is considering putting Superman: The Man of Steel into turnaround and … Continue reading