While Devin spent the early part of this week in Romania, I went the other direction. Sony held a two-day press event (four days with travel, ultimately!) to show off all sorts of new code for the PS3 and PSP, and even a couple things for the PS2. Altogether, this is a more impressive lineup … Continue reading
The advent of summer is wonderful for obvious reasons (temperatures wax, clothes wane) but also for one known only to movie-die hards: festival announcements*. While eager crowds are lining up to eat the baby-shit sandwich called Shrek 3, pretentious assholes like me are staring into a computer screen (or worse: Film Comment**) to see what’s … Continue reading
The list of famous offspring who go on to appear on screen is long and impressive. Sofia Coppola. Lisa Marie Presley. Liza Minelli. Come to think of it, the list needs more men. Thankfully, when the true-story nature of The Pursuit of Happyness rendered it unimpeachable, junior Fresh Prince Jaden Smith became the latest in … Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We could very easily have spent this whole article discussing sequels and … Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We could very easily have spent this whole article discussing sequels and … Continue reading
Clothes really make the man. The half of our species with external reproductive organs gets a little flush when we see new images of men in metal suits. Meanwhile for some of the people born with a pair of ovaries (instead of this little ovarian nub the drunks down at the research institute are still … Continue reading
Once again, it just doesn’t matter if anyone but the ticket-buying public thinks a movie blows. Or does it? Friday estimates are in for Spider-Man 3, and they’re in record-breaking territory: $59 million, trouncing the comparatively paltry $55.8 million earned by Dead Man’s Chest last year. That looks pretty good on the surface, especially since … Continue reading
Earl Dittman wins. He gets his name (even in small print) associated with a massive marketing push and we just get another lousy blockbuster. I’ll spend the next few hundred words explaining eactly why, but for the people who just read the first paragraph and skip to the score, here it is: Spider-Man 3 is … Continue reading
If you’ve been reading Jeremy’s fantastic Crop Report feature, you’d know that Burn Before Reading, the Coen Brothers’ follow-up to the already completed No Country For Old Men, sounds like a pitch-perfect return to form. That’s on the page, anyway, and since their material is so relentlessly scripted before cameras roll, that’s two-thirds of the … Continue reading
…aaaand we’re back. May. The most obvious month in cinema. I know that everyone reading this is planning to see Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean, and I’m afraid that some of you are going to plonk down duckets for Shrek, as well. Your funeral, pal. And yet in spite, or because of those … Continue reading