If you’ve been reading our Chud Essentials list over the past week, the film Q The Winged Serpent should be fresh in mind. I’m just saying that because in mere moments I’m going to write about the upcoming flick Winged Creatures, and I feel it’s really important to get thefact that it is not a … Continue reading
The Polish Brothers seem like they work slowly – it’s been eight years since Twin Falls Idaho, with The Astronaut Farmer only the third feature to follow their debut. But with acting and writing gigs for other filmmakers, plus their own research, their output isn’t as surprising. Neither is their focus on Americana, which has … Continue reading
Billy Bob Thornton has played a lot of down home characters, but none so approachable and determined as Charles Farmer, who bucks NASA and the FAA to build his own rocket and explore space in his own way, on his own time. You’re old enough to remember the moon landing. Yes. When Neil Armstrong and … Continue reading
Due to a technical issue, this roundtable with Virginia Madsen isn’t as long as it could have been. But most of the second half of the interview dealt with spoilers about The Astronaut Farmer or general discussion about The Number 23, which needs no more discussion. You’re missing out on a good anecdote about Madsen … Continue reading
It’s looking like a good year to be Boston in the movies. With The Departed‘s Oscar buzz sweeping up into registers that only dogs can hear and a directorial debut from Affleck that had promising reports from set, other production companies are eyeing the city’s history, unique locations and penchant for turning out working class … Continue reading
Two things that never need appear again in a film not oriented towards the chronic masturbator crowd: pool boys and pimps. And yet American Summer will soon begin shooting in New Orleans, hiding both those archetypes not only under one blasé title, but in a single character. Matthew Lillard, not so conspicuously low-profile since 2004’s … Continue reading
The distressingly large game geek contingent that continually argues the Metal Gear series as an example of masterful storytelling is about to get an extra shot of legitimacy. Series creator Hideo Kojima has been talking up movie possibilities for a while now, and Sony Pictures (providing an assist to SCEA with one of their only … Continue reading
The original title for this article was ‘Biel beats off Lohan’. Then I realized that (a) it wasn’t quite right and (b) we don’t have the bandwidth to support the number of hits we’d get from Dave Davis alone. Not that it matters anyway, since this is really just another excuse to run a partially … Continue reading
When I was a kid and still read Stephen King* his story The Mist was one that really seemed perfect for cinema. It’s the essential horror setup: a bunch of people, some sane, some not, are trapped inside a supermarket while their town is enveloped in an inexplicable mist containing horrific monsters. Frank Darabont thinks … Continue reading
Valve, though corporate mouthpiece EA, today announced that Halloween won’t be the only reason to be excited about black and orange this fall. The Black and Orange boxes will finally see the release of new Half-Life 2 content, as well as the debut of the full game on next-gen consoles. The Black Box, for PCs … Continue reading