A scooper has told Coming Soon! that one of the roles in Quentin Tarantino’s half of the upcoming film Grindhouse may have been cast. Grindhouse is a neat experiment of a movie – Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez will both direct one hour segments based on the kind of movies you would have once seen at … Continue reading
Way back when I had a chance to sit down with Matthew Vaughn, and he talked about how he wanted to direct an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. Here’s what he had to say back when his gangster film and directorial debut, Layer Cake, was being released in the States: Vaughn: I’m doing a feature … Continue reading
It’s fitting that on the week before Halloween I’m running a contest for the Korean horror film Spider Forest. Because there’s nothing scarier than running a CHUD contest, of course. Spider Forest isn’t your average Pacific Rim horror picture – it’s a psychological thriller about mysterious murders in a cabin in the woods, and the … Continue reading
The Mask of Zorro was a real breath of fresh air in the stale, stale year of 1998. That was the year of dueling asteroid films and Godzilla; it seemed like the Hollywood action film was about to go the way of the musical. But Zorro was lithe where the rest lumbered, and it presented … Continue reading
My office is near City Hall in Manhattan, and I am used to walking outside and seeing big protests and parades and official nonsense of all sorts. But last year I saw the most bizarre thing yet – corporate mascots marching in front of City Hall, all campaigning to be voted the best by consumers. … Continue reading
This past weekend I contributed to my own growing case of tinnitus by blasting Black Sabbath’s Iron Man again and again on my iPod shuffle. It just felt like the right song to listen to while walking around my neighborhood. It may not be the best song to be playing in the halls of New … Continue reading
Harry Knowles has a very fascinating review of Uwe Boll’s BloodRayne up at Aint it Cool. It’s not fascinating because of the movie or the review itself, but because Harry saw the movie with Dr. Boll in attendance, and had a chance to hang out with him afterwards. Boll actually talked shit on Spielberg’s War … Continue reading
What do I like the best about these new stills from James Gunn’s Slither? I like how many of them are people reacting in utter horror to things. This makes me feel very good about the slime quotient of this film, which I wasn’t really doubting in the first place anyway. It’s no secret that … Continue reading
I don’t know if there’s a modern book that I did not get as much as I did not get Life of Pi. The book’s apparently a classic, a wonderful tale about a boy and a tiger who are trapped on a lifeboat together. It’s supposed to be this whole thing about God and about … Continue reading
As Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller get back together to start work on Sin City 2 (a title cleverly designed to help you realize that this is in fact related in some way to Rodriguez and Miller’s Sin City. See the film to find out how!), the good people at The Weinstein Co have announced … Continue reading