I am really dragging ass today. Just completely exhausted. I blame my tired eyes for mistaking “John Krasinski is writing and directing an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace book” for “Jane Krakowski is writing and directing an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace book.” At first I was all WTF????, and then I saw … Continue reading
Over the course of two seasons Battlestar Galactica has gone from “They brought back that crappy show?” to one of the smartest and relevant programs on television (to be fair, it was always smart and relevant, it’s just that a lot of us didn’t realize it early on). The man behind the show is Ronald … Continue reading
JRR Tolkien may have diminished to the West, but he remains Galadriel. Now, 275 years after his death, a new Middle Earth book, written by JRR himself, is coming out. I like to imagine L Ron Hubbard and VC Andrews welcoming the old man into the Posthumous Authors Club together. The book will be The … Continue reading
What if God and the Devil came to Earth and wooed a woman? That’s the premise of God, the Devil and Lucy, wherein Yaweh and Lucifer get tired of duking it out for human souls and decide that whoever can land Lucy will be declared the winner. The only rule is that they have to … Continue reading
When people talk about Francis Ford Coppola they always mention the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, and maybe if they’re disparaging him, Jack. But one of his great films almost never gets mentioned, and it’s too bad – The Conversation, released between The Godfather movies, is a masterpiece of paranoia and a real template for … Continue reading
Just when you thought your expectations for Death Sentence, the new Kevin Bacon starring film directed by Saw “mastermind” James Wan, couldn’t get any lower, they go and cast Aisha Tyler as a 50-year old man.The film is based on the book of the same name by Brian Garfield, the guy who wrote the mostly … Continue reading
CHUD.com is again ahead of the curve. Back in June I sat down with director Nick Jarecki to talk about his fascinating film portrait of director James Toback, The Outsider. In that interview, Nick spilled the beans on his next project: Q: You have the book and the documentary. Do you have another project lined … Continue reading
Last week George Clooney used his movie star fame and good looks to get a meeting with the folks at the UN, hoping to make them pay attention to the genocide in Darfur. Now that he’s solved that problem, George is heading back to the director’s chair for Leatherheads, a romantic comedy set against the … Continue reading
It seems like Zak Penn’s The Grand has been in the works forever, so long ago that the set visit was conducted by former CHUD editor Dave Davis as well as our current SEE THE TRAILER!
Werner Herzog stalks around the set of Zak Penn’s new improv film, The Grand, dressed all in black like a Teutonic Johnny Cash. He’s in character as The German, a truly nasty poker player who has come, along with his own personal menagerie (Herzog will explain this in the interview) to the National American Indoor … Continue reading