UPDATED! The trailer linked here has been pulled. Look for it to resurface again soon, and we’ll resurrect this piece at that time. I declare 2005 to be the year of Heath Ledger. He was fantastic in Lords of Dogtown. He’s completely different and great in the (admittedly not that good) The Brothers Grimm. And … Continue reading
How good does Aslan look in the picture above? I keep wondering what his breath would smell like. That’s how good he looks. With each new image from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, I get a little more excited. This past year has seen a couple of disappointments for … Continue reading
There have been a couple of movie poster trends lately, and the big screen version of the musical Rent is taking part in both of them! We’ve seen a number of posters where instead of the horrible floating head, the one sheet is broken up into a number of boxes, each with different images. That’s … Continue reading
Paging Oscar #2. Oscar #2, you have a call from Miss Charlize Theron. Sure, she’s doing sci-fi action adventure in the upcoming Aeon Flux, but Charlize isn’t necessarily going the way of Halle Berry and giving up meaty roles. She’s going to be starring in North Country, a fictionalized account of the first ever sexual … Continue reading
I have always been really interested in the unexplained and the paranormal. When I was younger I was more into that stuff as a hardcore believer, and Whitley Strieber’s books were, for me, the pinnacle of proof about the abductee phenomenon, where people would be snatched by aliens and methodically sodomized for some reason only … Continue reading
I don’t know if there’s another actress who personifies sardonic quite like Mary Louise Parker. Plus she’s really beautiful! I even forgive her for her role as one of the most annoying characters ever introduced on West Wing, Amy the feminist lobbyist (I haven’t seen her new Showtime series, Weeds, but it has Kevin Nealon, … Continue reading
If you’re visiting CHUD.com there’s a good chance that the films of John Landis have been important to you. Animal House. Coming to America. An American Werewolf in London. And of course, The Blues Brothers. It’s that film’s 25th anniversary, and Universal is releasing a new DVD edition (August 30th – buy it from CHUD.com … Continue reading
If you’re visiting CHUD.com there’s a good chance that the films of John Landis have been important to you. Animal House. Coming to America. An American Werewolf in London. And of course, The Blues Brothers. It’s that film’s 25th anniversary, and Universal is releasing a new DVD edition (August 30th – buy it from CHUD.com … Continue reading
When Mr. Beaks really likes something, I pay attention. He really liked the script for Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan’s insanely long awaited follow up to You Can Count on Me (has it really been five years since that film threatened to make a star out of Mark Ruffalo? It really feels like that guy is treading … Continue reading
One of the things that is so comforting about movies is that violence and explosions solve everything. In cinema there is no problem that cannot be overcome by the judicious application of explosives. Imagine what the indie world could accomplish if those arty farty filmmakers could just embrace this concept. Tell me that The Sea … Continue reading