Welcome to week 2 of this lame experiment. This was a weird week. Because i watched 8 films last weekend and only 3 during the week. Sneaked in a few repeat views there. Here is the list of films I saw since last Friday. The Hustler Carrie Dressed To Kill Frozen An Evening With Kevin … Continue reading
BBC’s Radio 1 has long been a bastion of exploration and taste on the airwaves emanating from across the pond. The first broadcast (recording of course) I ever heard archived from the station was Jimi Hendrix, back in the 90’s when a friend of mine worked for Chicago radio station WXRT and raided their archives, … Continue reading
My new job means that the family Savage will have to invest in a new car. Now to me this sounds like a rather tenuous reason to write a blog and do some fantasy geek shopping. So I ask you gentle reader to journey with me to the Nerd car showroom where we can choose … Continue reading
Pants is a very funny word. It’s short, it has that wonderful plosive sound that all good ‘P’ words have and it ends abruptly with a comical hiss. It can be an adjective “Mike! Your blog is pants” or a noun “Mr Crossey, please put some pants on”. Throughout the ages many famous linguists have stated that Cellar … Continue reading
The fall TV season has begun and, as with previous seasons, I’ll try to watch as many new and returning shows as possible and write about them. And if I happen to watch a film in between, comments about it will be made. I’ll try my best no to include spoilers, but I’ll most likely … Continue reading
It’s nearly been a year since I wrote a blog at CHUD. I’ve watched as a lot of new writers came into the fold and did their schtick. A handful were amazing, while the rest wrote. Originally, I was going to convert this place into the new home for “Criterion by the Numbers”. The problem … Continue reading
Today’s title is brought to you by my viewing of The Faculty this morning. Despite the quote, I will not be talking about The Faculty, but rather Pandorum. I would apologize for the confusion, but I don’t respect you enough to do so. Pandorum is the monstrous offspring of two space-based spec scripts smashed together … Continue reading
The summer I was 13 years old, I wrote my grandmother every four days. My mother had stressed that she was very lonely and looked forward to hearing from us. I figured I’d make it my personal mission to write her, and even carefully gridded out a calendar with a ball point pen on the … Continue reading
Now, let’s all get that groan out while we can. We good? Great. Now not only did we get the misfortune of another installment of Resident Evil, but director of the first Resident Evil is back to film what is, undeniably, the worst attempt yet. Paul W.S Anderson has made my shit list. I’m not … Continue reading
So there is news making the film score circles and the Harry Potter legions freak out. According to Potterish, they have received confirmation from WB Brazil that the esteemed John Williams will be scoring Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (yes if you didn’t already know the final HP film is split into … Continue reading