I grew up on the original Hasbro Transformers TV show like a lot of you, and (hopefully) like a lot of you, I’ve since come to appreciate the mindless entertainment it gave me as a child, but need nothing else from this property. I don’t need the special edition of the animated movie. I don’t … Continue reading
You have to give Aaron Sorkin credit: The man loves TV even when it’s not loving him back right now. I wasn’t too sad to see the scattershot Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip suffer a surprisingly quick and quiet demise, and neither were that many of you. But rather than rush back to the … Continue reading
If you’ve been reading the front page, you know that Hollywood has been considering a variety of options to firm up box office revenue and thwart the looming threat of piracy. One of the most controversial is the “premiere” day-and-date release which would see major blockbusters available for cable PPV purchase prices in the $30-$50 … Continue reading
What determines the quality of a life? Longevity? Material wealth? Your cache of friends? Your legacy? What exactly do you have to or acquire to make your existence worthwhile? We’ve struggled with these questions for about as long as we’ve drawn breath, and I certainly don’t pretend to have “the” answer, if there is just … Continue reading
And there it is. He doesn’t look cranky, mumbly, and/or surly. Perhaps Spielberg snuck up on Ford at the tail end of a rare moment of off-camera amiability just before he snapped this first official photo from the new film. It’s best not to ponder these things.
In real life, Kate Hudson ended her marriage with faithful neo-hippie singer Chris Robinson when she got a taste of the supposed Butterscoth Stallion AKA Owen Wilson. Apparently, there’s a karmic price to pay for that because she’s just signed up to be the new ‘tang for Dane Cook in his upcoming romcom Bachelor No. … Continue reading
I’m grateful to be living in a golden age of sorts for geek material, but the flipside of that is not unlike the flipside when music scenes have exploded. When the Seattle music scene blew up in the early 90s, we got to enjoy the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains….and … Continue reading
Instead of just bumping the one article for the CHUD Podcast, I’m going to give each installment their own so that we can build this thing up a little better and keep it fresh. Of course fresh isn’t exactly on the menu with these shows due to the meandering craziness of them, but you get … Continue reading
It’s a familiar storyline by now: The Internet has put entertainment, as we know it, at a crossroads. Now that people can get music, books, and movies when they want it, how they want it, and for whatever price (or none at all) they wish to pay, the big money firms/studios/labels that previously were gatekeepers … Continue reading
I was underwhelmed the very first time I saw Sin City. Being unfamiliar with the source material, I had no particular admiration for the seemingly literal presentation of it that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller provided. I’ve since come to enjoy it to some extent due to round-the-clock showings on Starz, where the small-scale, stage-y … Continue reading