Russ Fischer

THE WRIGHT STUFF, AT HOME

Devin’s been going on about how great the Wright Stuff mini-festival is, and with good reason. Edgar Wright has put together a fantastic collection of films to show at the New Beverly theater over a couple weeks. If I could, I’d be there for every single night. Devin recently wrote about his experience seeing The … Continue reading

LOOKIN’ GOOD, IRON MAN

Getting new Iron Man details feels like waiting for your tax return to arrive. There are perfectly legit reasons for keeping a lot of the film’s details under wraps — I really don’t want to know the whole movie before I sit down in front of it — but in the meantime we’re being fed … Continue reading

ED NORTON JOINS KIDDER, LOHAN, VAN DAMME IN ELITE CLUB

Double your pleasure, Norton-o-philes. The actor, who suddenly cannot be stopped* will be playing dual, genetically identical roles for writer/director Tim Blake Nelson in the flick Leaves of Grass. The picture is billed as a ‘comedic thriller’, an identity readily apparent to anyone who reads descriptions of Norton’s roles: (1) an Ivy League classics professor … Continue reading

MIKE PATTON IS LEGEND

Worlds collide! It makes a lot of sense that, when the time comes to cast a voice actor to make your gibbering creatures come to life, you’d go to someone with a lot of gibbering experience. Enter Mike Patton, who, we’re now told, voiced the creatures crawling around New York in I Am Legend. (Note … Continue reading

BIG RED STARES BACK

The third official poster from Hellboy 2: The Golden Army went live on Friday. Because we here at CHUD do what we want when we want to, I’m just passing it along now. And in a break from tradition, I’m going to do so relatively free of comment. I don’t have any grand stories from … Continue reading

GET AN EAR FULL OF REAL COX

If you live in Chicago, Austin, Nashville, San Francisco or New York, there’s a chance to get up close and personal with John C Reilly, who’ll be appearing live as Dewey Cox, backed by The Hard Walkers. Following promo screenings of the film Reilly and the band will bloast out a live set of Cox … Continue reading