Editorial

CONTEST: FLATOUT 2 (XBOX)

I never played Flatout. I thought it was a French game, pronounced "Flatooo". Actually, I was knee deep in Need for Speed Underground and Burnout incarnations to give another racing game the time of day. Then I heard about the "Ragdoll Olympic" aspect to the game and was immediately thrilled to play the sequel. Of … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 8.16.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: NICOLAS WINDING REFN (PUSHER)

Nicolas Winding Refn isn’t a household name, and probably never will be. You don’t find mainstream fame by making uncompromising crime films that are both phsyically and emotionally brutal. His movies Bleeder and Fear X (with John Turturro, co-written by Hubert Selby Jr) got some attention outside his native Denmark and surrounding Europe. Ironically, it’s … Continue reading

SCREENING: THE WICKER MAN

While we all wait patiently for Rattan Gentleman, Neil Labute’s The Wicker Man will just have to do. As everyone knows, this is a remake of the Pagan cult classic starring Edward Woodward (TV’s The Equalizer) and Christopher Lee (TV’s Count Dooku) with Nicolas Cage and Ellen Burstyn playing hero and villain, respectively. It’s an … Continue reading

INTERVIEW: DAVID ELLIS (SNAKES ON A PLANE)

Director David R. Ellis is probably one of the most mellow Hollywood veterans I’ve ever met, a real Southern California surfer type complete with rich tan and abundant usage of terms like “radical”. He’s been an actor, stunt coordinator and second unit director on everything from Nightbeast to The Wraith to Harry Potter, before shifting … Continue reading

INTERVIEW: MATT DILLON (FACTOTUM)

Matt Dillon wants to be taken seriously. At the New York press day for his new film, Factotum, he was very interested in talking about the ins and outs of his character, Hank Chinaski, the alter ego of sodden writer Charles Bukowski. He wanted to talk about how he inhabited the character, how he did … Continue reading

THOR’S COMIC COLUMN

The threat of Annihilation just gets bigger and bigger By Graig Kent After the climactic and cool finales to the Annihilation prologue mini-series featuring the Silver Surfer and Nova (the Ronan and Super-Skrull minis didn’t sell me past their first issues), Keith Giffen was going to have to step up his game to keep the … Continue reading

CHUDSTORIES: WAKE-UP CALL

(From the Pulp Crime stories) I’ve got problems, and it’s not just the fact that I woke up with a 9mm pressed to my skull. My problem is that the gun and the uneasy resemblance of a man connected to it hardly phase me. The third time this month I’ve let this happen. That’s more … Continue reading