The face of the Oscar race may be getting an overhaul, if Tom O’Neil’s Gold Derby is right – Warner Bros is going to give Letters From Iwo Jima a one week New York and LA qualifying run at the end of the year.Letters is the companion piece to Clint Eastwood’s recent disappointment, Flags of … Continue reading
It’s been a really long time since we’ve seen anything from Frank Darabont. The last film to carry his writing credit was 1999’s The Green Mile, and his last feature directorial effort was 2001’s The Majestic. But now he’s coming back – he has two movies lined up (The Mist and Fahrenheit 451), and this … Continue reading
Talk show couches across the nation, beware! Tom Cruise is coming back. After getting canned from Paramount and seeing Mission: Impossible III deflate at the box office, the tiny thespian is acting just like a Tom Cruise character at the end of the second act of a Tom Cruise movie – he’s getting back on … Continue reading
Dax Shepard knew CHUD when I walked in for our one on one for his new film, Let’s Go to Prison, opening this weekend. “You’re from CHUD,” he said. “CHUD’s been intermittently mean and nice to me – they can’t decide if they like me or hate me.” The fact of the matter, and I … Continue reading
I wanted to take this opportunity to talk to you about a movie that we have been ignoring on CHUD.com, The Fountain. Regular readers of this site probably have no idea that it’s the new film from Darren Aronofsky, and that it opens next Wednesday. OK, so maybe I have mentioned it once or twice … Continue reading
Eva Green has an indie sensibility in a big budget world. At the Casino Royale junket in New York City she wore a very concealing and shapeless black outfit, and a big skull ring, making her very different from fellow new Bond girl Caterino Murino, who showed up in a sexy and low cut dress. … Continue reading
Oliver Hirschbiegel was a pretty hot commodity in Hollywood coming off his one-two punch German films Das Experiment and Downfall, and Warner Bros snatched him up for their film The Invasion, an updated version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Produced by Joel Silver, the scifi film stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and I … Continue reading
You thought Peter Jackson’s King Kong couldn’t get any longer? Oh, how wrong you were! I’m starting to think that Jackson won’t rest until he’s made a single film equaling the length of the legendary lost original cut of von Stroheim’s Greed. The new Deluxe Edition DVD of King Kong is three discs, and the … Continue reading
Nic Cage has always been Hollywood’s biggest comic book fan – his stage name comes from Luke Cage, noted anal sex buddy of Marvel Comics superheroine Jessica Jones. He was attached to star in Tim Burton’s Superman movie, a film that would have certainly been more rousing than Bryan Singer’s, as it would have at … Continue reading
In the remaining weeks of 2006, American audiences are going to be treated to a succession of films that are stunning achievements, absolute masterworks. Any year end top ten list that doesn’t have one of these three movies in the top spot will be, to me, highly suspect. To have one of these films come … Continue reading