When I was in Lake Tahoe to see Smokin’ Aces a month or so ago, director Joe Carnahan dropped a sweet scoop in my lap – he’s going to direct White Jazz, adapted from the James Ellroy book by Carnahan and his brother Matthew. Carnahan was psyched about it, and he wanted to tell me … Continue reading
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Preacher, the excellent Vertigo/DC Comics series about a priest with the commanding voice of God, his contract killer girlfriend and their drunken Irish vampire best friend, is going to be a one hour HBO show. Of all the comic book properties that people … Continue reading
Earlier today Brad at Bloody Disgusting sent out a heads up email about a scoop his site had – the Robocop remake, which Dave Davis broke here on CHUD last year, is dead. Brad did discover that Ed Neumeier, who wrote the original film, was to have been involved. But don’t weep for Ed – … Continue reading
There’s a very good chance that you never saw David Gordon Green’s Undertow – it’s one of the least-seen great films of the 21st century (I blame myself – I failed to put the movie on my 2004 Top Fifteen and I gave it a positive but mixed review at the time). I feel like … Continue reading
This editorial contains complete and total spoilers for Little Miss Sunshine. The Little Miss Sunshine parade has begun. Today it was nominated for a number of Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature and Best First Screenplay. In the next couple of weeks you’ll see more of this – the film will end up on many, … Continue reading
The nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards have been announced, and maybe their list of Best Feature nominees will finally inspire me to finish my editorial about Little Miss Sunshine. See, that film – which stars such edgy, indie unknowns as Steve Carrell, Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin – is among the five films nominated. … Continue reading
Last night I was at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall for the New York premiere of Curse of the Golden Flower, the latest film from Zhang Yimou. There was a little red carpet with flashbulb-popping paparazzi, and Yimou and his star, Gong Li, both spoke before the film began. Alice Tully Hall is pretty big, … Continue reading
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I am hesitant to report too much Watchmen news. I’ve been down this road before, and it all ended in tears. Paul Greengrass was very, very far along with his version of Watchmen when the plug got pulled, and until filming on Zack Snyder’s version starts I’m not getting to comfortable. But Snyder et al … Continue reading
When you go to the movies and see trailers, they’re usually “green band” – ie, they’ve been approved for all audiences by the MPAA. Much more rare is the “red band” trailer. That’s the one only adults should see. We here at CHUD are very proud to bring you the red band trailer for The … Continue reading