The Tribeca Film Festival is making with the announcements (see below for the full list of movies announced thus far), but they are keeping a couple of films a secret at the moment. But not from Stu Van Airsdale and the gang at Reeler, who have found out the big hot shit premieres this year. … Continue reading
A new sketch comedy show is premiering on Fuse on March 20 – The Whitest Kids U Know. I happen to know some of these guys, and can tell you from first-hand experience that they’re funny as hell. The boys won Best Sketch Group at the Aspen Comedy Festival in 2006, and they’ve done an … Continue reading
Wong Kar Wai is trying to make workaholics look lazy – the genius Hong Kong filmmaker already has three movies on his immediate docket and now he’s added a fourth. The new one is an untitled film about lesbian love in a high school (one ticket, please!), slated to start in April. The new movie … Continue reading
Scuttlebutt and rumor comes flying from the Pinewood Studios set of Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton’s adaptation of the musical tale of a murderous barber and his landlady who bakes his victims into meat pies. According to sources on the film, the production ground to a halt after Johnny Depp’s daughter Lily-Rose was hospitalized with a … Continue reading
This is how I find out they’re remaking Escape From New York, with an announcement that King Leonidas (or the Phantom of the Opera, depending on how non-charitable you’re being) is going to take on the ultimate badass role that Kurt Russell originated in the 1981 classic. I know a lot of you found yourself … Continue reading
Above is the ‘gag teaser’* for the new film from Adam Rifkin, the guy who directed Detroit Rock City (a serious candidate for a future CHUD Essentials), called Homo Erectus. It’s a caveman comedy, and the clips and trailers that we’ve been supplied with (see below) indicate that this is what Woody Allen may have … Continue reading
Drugs are no stranger to the filmography of Darren Aronofsky; his Requiem For a Dream is a brilliant look at addictions of all sorts. Now he’s put the kind of visionary filmmaking that has made his name a beloved one around these parts to very good use – a series of meth commercials for the … Continue reading
I look at Jack Black as one of the great cautionary tales of Hollywood. The guy went from cool and underground to overexposed joke in no time flat – once you would hear that he was attached to a project and smile; now you grimace a little bit since you’re so sick of his schtick. … Continue reading
Sure France has a cultural ministry dedicated to promoting and protecting their national arts and heritage, but that’s nothing compared to the big Warner Bros money… at least that’s what I assume led the home of the Eiffel Tower and the recently corpsed Baudrillard to issue a set of stamps featuring the Harry Potter characters. … Continue reading