Eva Mendes has approximately two pretty big things going for her, and by that, I mean her mighty affordable asking price and her willingness to sign up for just about any project (What? What did you think I was going to say those two things were?). Well, she’s not bad on the eyes, either, but … Continue reading
1. ROLLING STONE #1031 This is one of the flagship music/movies/culture rags out there. Despite some rather depressing lows hit in recent years, RS has begun to pick up steam again thanks to a concerted effort to chronicle every single mistake the Bush administration makes in detail in its political coverage led by reporter Matt Taibbi. In … Continue reading
If there’s one thing that grabs my attention more than a B-list actor starring in a film, it’s when a gaggle of them are in one film together. But there are gradients even amongst B-actors, and it’s only fair to make the distinction. For example, even though I would call them both B-actors, I wouldn’t … Continue reading
I keep saying it, but y’all don’t really hear me: If you’re a screenwriter, toss out that pirated copy of Final Draft and crank up Microsoft Word. If you want to get some films made these days, you need to be writing high-profile magazine articles, chump. Now that coverage guys have realized they can find … Continue reading
Despite the fact that Daniel Craig moved on from his upcoming film Blindness, Fernando Meirelles is moving full steam ahead and in directions you might not expect given his rather grim filmography thus far, which includes The Constant Gardener and City of God (and Blindness is every bit as bleak). After that onslaught of onscreen … Continue reading
Here’s the kind of Cannes story you wouldn’t expect to hear normally: After an apparently successful screening, MGM is grabbing the new Rob Schnieder movie Big Stan, a prison/martial arts comedy, even though Schneider and crew have already sold off partial rights for the film to HBO. Hell, MGM didn’t just buy it. They’ve committed … Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We could very easily have spent this whole article discussing sequels and … Continue reading
300, and its explosive box office run, had a lot of surprises for the industry, but one of the greatest was the ease with which Gerard Butler anchored the film in his star-making turn as King Leonidas. And ever since then, casual fans and fanboys alike have been looking forward to what he’s going to … Continue reading
For me, movies based on kung fu manuals pretty much reached an impenetrable ceiling when Stephen Chow turned out the slow-starting, yet insanely entertaining Kung Fu Hustle. For the unfortunate uninitiated, he played a shifty geek whose life was irrevocably altered when some vagrant sold him a manual on the “Buddhist Palm” technique as a … Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We could very easily have spent this whole article discussing sequels and … Continue reading