CHUD'S 50 GUILTIEST PLEASURES – DAY ELEVEN
You wanna know if someone genuinely disagrees with you a lot or is a mere contrarian? Here’s your litmus test: Just mention Wild Hogs, the indefensibly awful "middle age guys get their groove back" flick from Walt Becker starring John Travolta, Tim Allen, William H. Macy, and Martin Lawrence. If their response doesn’t involve projectile … Continue reading
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know you’re all burned out on viral marketing, and thus this is merely an official dispatch. The 1-18-08 site has added a third, brand new photo as seen above, and apparently in the midst of all this Chtulu/Voltron/Parasite/MechaGodzilla/Jet Jaguar/? craziness, somebody’s barbeque got out of control. Or the Broadway musical version … Continue reading
We’ve been giving you lots of news lately on Jim Carrey, and most it has been bad as the guy has been struggling to get his film career back on the superstar track. Projects are falling through left and right, and those that he’s actually gotten into production…well, you know the deal. Still, I wish … Continue reading
First off, give it up to James Wan. Not as a writer or director or anything…after all, I can’t stand the Saw movies and I never even bothered with Dead Silence. But with his latest film, Death Sentence, he’s managed to hook me before I have seen a single frame of film. Hell, before I … Continue reading
Universal simply cannot be deterred from exploiting their grand history of monster properties, and as a concept, that’s not a bad thing. Classic horror tales like Frankenstein and Dracula endure because they’re set on well-written, fully-fleshed out characters that can be interpreted in a number of ways. And so when whatever current wave of horror … Continue reading
Today’s shaping up to be an ace day for viral marketing, both official and unofficial. J.J. Abrams weighed in with Harry at AICN about the puzzle site from late last week, http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com, and he says not only is it not one of his sites, but that he has frickin’ sites, as in multiple ones which … Continue reading
It was just a week or so ago that Devin caught you up on the beginnings of the viral marketing efforts of Watchmen, which consisted of a short-lived site that hosted a Rorschach symbol and an email address link. The tricky part of the equation is that site was registered to Michael Regina of OneRing.Net … Continue reading
1. WIZARD #190 The comic book industry has their glossy, all encompassing magazine and it is this one. They tend to have their formula and stick to it, but sometimes they’ll surprise you. This issue’s strong points: I like the "Skrull or No Skrull" feature because I always thought that Marvel had been squandering the … Continue reading