Now that Will Eisner’s in a coffin he’s able to spin in it. Nah, that’s unfair. The news coming down the pike that Frank Miller is stepping in to direct a feature film of Eisner’s seminal comic The Spirit could easily be construed as a case of a creator standing on the shoulders of giants, … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
The Graboid and Chud Thinker features have inspired me. Here is a puzzle from the mind of Blofeld – also known as Chud’s shortz. This is a standard “Cryptogram” puzzle. I have taken a quote from a beloved movie and anagrammed the letters into the answers of the 8 clues. If you answer a clue, … Continue reading
Forgive me if this is old news but since Devin and Dave are off at Comic Con and a Vegas set visit, I’m going to carry the news torch. Then again, it may be like a glass of nice cool iced tea since I’m neither a Communist or a pedophile… Eric Bana has pleased the … Continue reading
My "review" of Pan’s Labyrinth will arrive later this week and believe me it’s been one of the tougher reviews to write. It’s hard to not to just fellate Guillermo in text, something you’ll realize when you see it. This is the first San Diego Comic Con I’ll not be going to since the late … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
[Same intro as last time] Once upon a time I was a Stephen King apologist. If he ran over someone’s cat, I’d drive to their house and say “I’m sorry Stephen King flattened your furry little Obnoxio”. Nowadays, people are running Mr. King down like it’s going out of style [once] and his last few … Continue reading
Broken Lizard is about as vital as any creative team working in Hollywood to me. Though Michael Mann is the guy who gets me to drop whatever I’m doing to watch his films [and Newell will be interviewing him for CHUD.com next week, lucky ape], these guys make me laugh more than anyone else and … Continue reading
Once upon a time I was a Stephen King apologist. If he ran over someone’s cat, I’d drive to their house and say “I’m sorry Stephen King flattened your furry little Obnoxio”. Nowadays, people are running Mr. King down like it’s going out of style [once] and his last few books have left me colder … Continue reading
After several years of nothingness, we’re rebooting our mailing list with a new vigor, a new attitude, and some new faces. Sadly, the old one has been lost to time and space, but sometimes you have to raze the old to make way for the new.The Sewer Chewer is a site devoted primarily to this … Continue reading