Sometimes even the hardened news hounds here at CHUD.com miss a story or two. Usually it’s not a big deal, but this past week we almost let an opportunity to shit on the idea of a sequel to Superman Returns get by us! Thanks to Garth at Dark Horizons, we managed to see the story … Continue reading
The horror kids are getting all worked up over this French Inside picture (not this equally commendable, Made-In-America Inside picture), so I guess we’re all compelled to see it even though they lied about Hatchet*! Directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, Inside is a allegedly a taut home invasion flick in which an awful … Continue reading
What’s the difference between a dæmon and a demon? One could spend a good deal of column space and bore a great many readers differentiating between the two, so, for the purposes of this article, we shall define a dæmon as "a person’s attendant spirit" and a demon as "a film by Lamberto Bava".Unfortunately for … Continue reading
Ridley Scott has made the single best gangster film of the 21st century with American Gangster*, but even more amazing than that, he’s managed to make a film where Cuba Gooding Jr is actually… good. Yes, Cuba’s in American Gangster playing Nicky Barnes, the Harlem drug kingpin who appeared on the cover of the New … Continue reading
I was over at Joe Carnahan’s blog reading his thoughts on the strike (he’s prepping for a summer 08 shoot, thinking that only the writers will strike) when I saw that he announced Chris Pine dropping out of Killing PabloWhite Jazz in order to ‘go where no man has gone before,’ according to Joe. That … Continue reading
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I had to stop and take a few breaths before writing this article, because every paragraph I read in the source story just screamed wrong, wrong, WRONG. Where’s that Kevin Spacey .gif? The basics: as we’ve reported before, Bill Pullman is playing a sorta, kinda version of Philip K Dick in the unauthorized biopic Your … Continue reading
Back in August CHUD.com brought you the news that the Frank Herbert estate believed they were close to launching a new Dune film. The details were scarce, and we didn’t even know what studio or what filmmaker really wanted the rights to the book. Now Aint It Cool has a scooper who thinks they know … Continue reading
Lionsgate is a weird company. They produce lots and lots of junk – War, Midnight Meat Train, Saw IV – but they also distribute movies like Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth and they brought Paul Haggis’ Crash to an Oscar win. They’re a schizophrenic company, making their rent by making awful genre pictures, but … Continue reading
Fresh from his exhausting stint doing not a goddamn thing for the past decade (does The Good Shepherd count?) Joe Pesci is about to live every boy’s dream: he’s going to play fuck/marry/kill with Helen Mirren, Helen Mirren and some unknown actor, all within the confines of a thinly fictionalized Mustang Ranch. Guess which one … Continue reading