I hate being in a position where I have to eat my words, but I’ll chow down like Herzog on leather when it’s called for. After dismissing Tim Burton as a hamster on a treadmill for the past decade, Sweeney Todd has forced me to admit that he’s got energy left to burn. His work … Continue reading
After seeing I Am Legend I’m not sure I want Will Smith to be hunting anything but the monsters in Jada Pinkett’s past. But that’s not stopping him from guiding a flick called Monster Hunter for Sony. Starring Hitch co-criminal Kevin James, the flick is about a child psychologist able to see the monsters that … Continue reading
2007: The year that Chinese toymakers couldn’t do anything right*. First they’re poisoning children and probably ruining Christmas, then thanks to less than stringent security at Hasbro’s Chinese facility, they’re spoiling Iron Man, too. Don’t read the next paragraph or click the link if you really want to know no more about the film than … Continue reading
Hold your nose. The Wayans Brothers (Keenan Ivory, Marlon and Shawn) have taken their signature brand of idiocy — the spoofish buffonery that spawned four Scary Movie films and over $420 million for Dimension — to Paramount, where they’ll, er, mount a similarly-minded flick in dubious honor of cop movies. There’s no title, and not … Continue reading
“It is happening again.” Those words, spoken by the giant in Twin Peaks, are fucking ominous. They mean that a cycle of horror and death is coming around again; even as the words are spoken, someone is dying. Terribly. Which is as good a way as any to explain how I see the work of … Continue reading
I’m not sure what I can do to break the string of Shutter Island articles featuring lame title metaphors, so I’m just going to stop thinking about it. The Scorsese/DiCaprio production has added its first high-profile female cast member: Michelle Williams will be heading to the remote New England locale as the wife of DiCaprio’s … Continue reading
That article title is my own way of suggesting that, contrary to all expectations (assuming I had any, though such an assumption would be false), this new Punisher almost looks like the real thing. And by ‘the real thing’ I mean the character I will forever hold in mind having been first exposed to the … Continue reading
The Pursuit of Happyness came to screens wearing a bulletproof vest. Instead of the bright yellow letters of law enforcement (FBI, POLICE, etc) it had that most deflective phrase scribed on the back in large letters: ‘based on a true story’. What kind of heartless dick would criticize such a touching, heartfelt tale? (Dicks like … Continue reading
Here’s a rundown, in language CHUD can understand, of what’s happened since the last time we got a new, numbered Street Fighter game: The Coen Brothers were great. Batman got nipples. Cop Land. DVD arrived. The Coen Brothers started to suck. George Lucas raped everyone, everywhere, at once. The Manitou arrived on DVD. The Coen … Continue reading
Mohammed is the most common name in the world! That’s one of the useful facts audiences learned from Superbad last summer. And next year, the newbie actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who might forever be known as McLovin, could conceiveably be playing a character named Mohammed — he’s been cast in the Judd Apatow production Year One, … Continue reading