I’m not going to blog a massive piece of text about Microsoft’s press conference that essentially opened E3 2007. It was broadcast live, and you can scan the loads of coverage that have already been blogged for all the tiny details. With one notable exception, the only games shown were 2007 releases, most of which … Continue reading
Since May, movie reviews across all media have been eager to exclaim finally, a summer movie that delivers! Now it’s my turn. While Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix isn’t the least artful film in the series, it is rather workmanlike in comparison to the films by Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell. And … Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our our disappointments, our essentials list and slowly exhumed our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Guilty Pleasures. We’ve all got those little flicks that we know are wrong, but feel so right. And … Continue reading
First off, I apologize for the delay. The holiday week and a few other unforeseen complications got in the way of our prognostication this month. But we’re not about to let it go, since July is bursting with films, especially if you live in an area fed by a decent indie cinema. There’s the big … Continue reading
The coolest thing about Transformers was the teaser for Cloverfield. Or the Untitled J. J. Abrams Project. Or, as the title may now actually be, 1-18-08. A website bearing that name and URL (1-18-08.com) has surfaced featuring only a still from the teaser watermarked with the date. And Paramount’s marketers aren’t as geek-friendly as Warner … Continue reading
Since last fall, George Romero has been back in Canada, shooting Diary of the Dead in and around Toronto. In case you missed news of the flick, this isn’t Dead movie number five in a chronological sense. Diary follows a group of students who were making a movie in the woods at the time of … Continue reading
Less than a year ago, Jamie Lee Curtis claimed that she was done with acting, and after watching only bits of Christmas With The Kranks, I’m pretty certain that acting feels the same way about her. Zero sum game then, all good. But today she’s making a move. Not even a vaguely entertaining one like … Continue reading
Because it stars Simon Pegg, we’ve been following the casting news for How To Lose Friends And Alienate People pretty closely. In addition to Pegg, Jeff Bridges, Kirsten Dunst, Gillian Anderson and Danny Huston are all on board the Robert B. Weide-directed adaptation of Toby Young’s memoir about being a total loser with an English … Continue reading