Sometimes you think an upcoming movie is so cool already that no force on Earth could make it cooler. How could A Scanner Darkly, a movie based on a Philip K Dick story, directed by Richard Linklater, done in the awesome animated style of Waking Life and starring Robert Downey Jr, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder … Continue reading
I hated Ju-On, and I hated the remake, The Grudge. Both were directed by Takashi Shimizu, who has made a cottage industry of retelling the same story about a ghostly curse in various sequels and direct to TV films. I hated Ju-On because I felt like I wasn’t needed – the film has utterly no … Continue reading
What I remember most about Brokeback Mountain is how beautiful it is. The movie in my mind’s eye is a steady succession of gorgeous scenery – majestic mountains and lonely plains, rivers and streams and long, endless highways. Ang Lee tells his sad love story perfectly with just the scenery of the American West. Which … Continue reading
To read this interview properly, imagine Seth Rogen laughing after every single answer he gives. The guy has a great laugh, and he loves to use it. Rogen is an alum of my all-time favorite TV show, Freaks & Geeks. He later moved on to another great, and doomed, show, Undeclared (buy Freaks & Geeks … Continue reading
On Tuesday, December 13, one of the funniest comedies in years hits DVD – The 40 Year Old Virgin. There’s a regular, theatrical version, and then there’s an unrated version, with 17 extra minutes of content. To celebrate the release of the DVD, CHUD.com has gotten three copies signed by Steve Carell, and we’re giving … Continue reading
Andrew Adamson sort of looks like Steve Buscemi. Just an observation. Adamson makes his live action directorial debut with Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, playing every place you can possibly imagine this Friday. You may have seen his earlier films, Shrek and Shrek 2. I heard they were moderately well … Continue reading
The other day I reported to you that Sarah Michelle Gellar would be returning for The Grudge 2, the least necessary sequel in history, since the original didn’t even have a fucking plot to continue. At the time I said that I thought her continued starring roles in crappy PG13 genre films was a bad … Continue reading
Stephen Gaghan is a tired, talkative man. I caught him at the very tail end of his Syriana PA tour, the morning after a Q&A session that apparently went nearly two hours, and probably could have gone twice that. He’s been at the promotion grind for a while now, and so some of his responses … Continue reading
The 40 Year Old Virgin DVD is hitting stores next week (there’s a theatrical version and an unrated version with 17 extra minutes put in – buy either version from CHUD right here!), and I had a chance to speak to Seth Rogen and director Judd Apatow about it recently. Seth’s interview will be up … Continue reading
Interviewing Georgie Henley and James McAvoy is like listening in on a private conversation. The two just keep their personal dialogue going, and you hope to be able to steer the direction a bit with a question. Georgie didn’t take her eyes off James the whole time we talked. Georgie plays little Lucy, who discovers … Continue reading