Ever since not seeing 2005’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, I’ve been desperate for a sequel that would specifically send the quartet of girls to Turkey, Greece, New York, Vermont and Providence. Why, these locations seem positively ideal for some estrogen-injected hijinks! Now that Variety has made me the happiest cad in the world … Continue reading
Colorful, perky, unabashedly campy… this is precisely the vibe I expected to get from a well-cut theatrical trailer for Hairspray, the movie musical based on the Broadway musical based on the 1988 John Waters feature – which was noteworthy at the time of its initial release as the Baltimore maestro’s first PG-rated effort. Interestingly, when … Continue reading
I don’t want to live in a world where the Coen Brothers aren’t making movies on a regular basis. Even after the disappointing duo of Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers, cinema is better off with these boys making movies. Lucky for us, Joel and Ethan will be returning after a three year layoff at this … Continue reading
Here’s hoping Jennifer Lynch has become a much better filmmaker since 1993’s Boxing Helena, because it looks like she’s finally taking another crack at her father’s profession. Yes, the author of The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (which I devoured before the Season Two premiere of Twin Peaks), is finally ready to make her sophomore … Continue reading
I hail from the Michael O’Donoghue school of comedy, which holds nothing sacred – the more verboten the subject, the riper it is for relentless ridicule. This has gotten me into a little trouble here and there. Years ago, while flirting with stand-up comedy in New York City, I attempted a hastily invented bit about … Continue reading
Few films deserve to be considered automatic Oscar contenders, but, as of today, John Patrick Shanley’s big-screen adaptation of his 2005 Tony Award winning Doubt can pretty much be placed at the front of the 2008 class. That’s what happens when you cast Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman as the leads in an explosive … Continue reading
So here we are again. Hot. MOST INTERESTING FILM OF THE WEEK Look, I’m not interested in guessing on this one; I want to proselytize. So I’m going to say this: Hot Fuzz will make $100 million dollars this weekend. Sure, it’s only on 700 screen, which barely counts as a wide release, but this … Continue reading
The speculation is over. Let the speculation begin. After weeks of bowel-churning suspense, Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob and Artistic Director Thierry Fremaux (both loyal CHUD readers) have revealed the official "In" and "Out of Competition" selections for this year’s cinematic shindig, and the big story isn’t what made it (we kinda knew that … Continue reading
Okay, sci-fi buffs (and I know CHUD is riddled with you fuckers): it’s time to explain why D.F. Jones’s Colossus books are relevant in an age where the rampant proliferation of nuclear technology has supplanted the fear of U.S. and Russia going head-to-head in global thermonuclear war. As a child of the Cold War, I’m … Continue reading
While I’ve very strong feelings about the profound waste of time and money that was the Whitewater "Scandal", I’m going to avoid delving into them as a response to the news that the co-writer of Crash will be adapting Susan McDougal’s The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk. I’m always up for a good political rumble, but … Continue reading