They don’t make movies like The Good Shepherd anymore. It feels like it slipped into theaters through a crack in reality, escaping from a parallel world that never experienced the one-two punch of Jaws and Star Wars and rather based its major blockbuster formula on the Godfather movies. But is there another alternate universe that’s … Continue reading
The image above is the Silver Surfer (aka Norrin Radd, for those puzzled by my crypto-geek headline) from the upcoming film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Fox had originally decided not to show us the Surfer until after the teaser trailer hit tomorrow because they wanted our first look at him to be … Continue reading
Are you excited about James Cameron’s return to the world of narrative filmmaking after almost a decade doing 3D fish movies? Is Avatar a movie you’re waiting for with bated breath? You’re going to keep waiting. In an interview with The Independent, Cameron has confirmed that Avatar is going to take a very long time. … Continue reading
Empire Online has a whole new gallery of images from Hot Fuzz, your favorite comedy of the new year. While looking through the images – which include everything from action shots to behind the scenes clowning – I came upon the one above and decided this was the picture to share with my CHUD faithful. … Continue reading
As much as I liked yesterday’s teaser trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers, the title of “Week’s Best Teaser” has been quickly transferred to Grindhouse, the anthology effort from best buds Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Click here to see it.The teaser seems a little heavier on Planet Terror, Rodriguez’ zombie film, but that’s probably just … Continue reading
Halfway through the roundtable interview with Ian McShane for We Are Marshall I despaired that I would ever hear him curse in person. I’m not sure if anyone since Lenny Bruce has had a reputation so built on an ability to deliver expletives, but as the devilish Al Swearengen on HBO’s Deadwood, McShane has become … Continue reading
The title for the seventh and final Harry Potter book has been announced, and it is filled with grim portent. The book will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Hallows is being used in a way that seems unusual to me – “hallow” means to make holy, so I am assuming this is … Continue reading
Welcome to the fifth massive installment of Joe Carnahan’s answers to your questions. Joe’s new movie, Smokin’ Aces, is on its way to movie theaters on January 26th, and while we’re all waiting for that, Joe has started a blog: www.smokinjoecarnahan.com. Part of that blog is answering the questions of CHUD readers, and this is … Continue reading
NOTE: We have been contacted by Disney and asked to take the image down. We’ve complied. Coming Soon got their hands on an unofficial picture of Keith Richards in costume as Captain Jack Sparrow’s dad in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. You can see a small bit of the picture here, and I … Continue reading
One of the most interesting things about Will Smith’s new movie, Pursuit of Happyness, is how colorblind it is. The film is the true story of Chris Gardner, a black man who becomes homeless while working at an unpaid stock broker internship with and under a bunch of white people – the internship is obviously … Continue reading