In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore stands before a group of true believers and delivers a fairly engaging Power Point presentation about global warming. The same dynamic will be played out in movie theaters, except that cinemagoers will also get Tales of Young Al Gore, stories from his life that end up having some bearing … Continue reading
Ben Affleck’s trying to get out of his hole, and he’s got the help of some fine actors. The lantern jawed actor is directing Gone, Baby, Gone, from his own adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel. He’s got his brother Casey starring, along with the very talented and wasted in Mission: Impossible III Michelle Monaghan … Continue reading
I watched Hustle & Flow again recently and it still amazed me. I don’t want to overestimate a director’s talents based on one film, but with that movie Craig Brewer proved himself to be someone worth noting. And he seems determined to be someone who keeps working – the director is already setting up his … Continue reading
Jon Favreau is talking about his upcoming Iron Man movie, and he’s ruled one thing right out – don’t go into theaters looking for the first drunken superhero. "The alcoholism doesn’t come into play until later on in the story of Iron Man," he told MTV (Hey Jon, who’s checking your MySpace messages? CHUD.com requested … Continue reading
Last week I brought you an exclusive interview with X-Men: The Last Stand screenwriters Zak Penn and Simon Kinberg, who revealed that the whole "final chapter" aspect of the film was dreamed up by the marketing people and not by them. They saw the film as the final chapter in a trilogy, but that there … Continue reading
This review contains some spoilers. X-Men: The Last Stand isn’t the worst movie of the year. Hell, it’s not even the worst film in the series. The bad news is that it’s also not the best, although the elements seem to be there; what we end up with is a movie that’s a miracle, given … Continue reading
The updated version of Night Stalker only ran on ABC for a few weeks, but we live in a time when cancellation isn’t quite the end for a TV series. The show has been resurrected on home video, complete with a number of episodes that never aired – including the second part of an integral … Continue reading
In today’s “no shit” news, it looks like Sony is about to begin gearing up the prequel to massive smash hit The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons. Da Vinci is one of those movies that makes studio execs very happy – despite the fact that it truly stinks and the critics have … Continue reading
Evan Almighty, as you may know, is the sequel to Bruce Almighty; this time Steve Carrell plays a guy who gets the full on Noah treatment and has to build himself an ark (not of the covenant variety). CHUD reader Stew sends us these four pictures with the attached note: This is Stew from the … Continue reading
John Moore might be positioning himself as the king of remakes. He’s got three films under his belt, and two are remakes – the last one was Flight of the Phoenix, and the latest is a redo of The Omen. This version stars Liev Schreiber in the Gregory Peck role, Julia Stiles in the Lee … Continue reading