Movie Reviews

We’re a hotheaded group of individuals. We crave a pull quote like anyone else, but it’s not about that. It’s only about you the reader. We love you. We want to take you home and cuddle with you. The following reviews are the opinions of the editors of CHUD.com and are by most accounts bang on.

REVIEW: I AM LEGEND

There’s an implied standard when reviewing a film that you should only review what’s on the screen. Not what’s in your head, not what could have been, not the cut that might end up on DVD. It’s a worthy ideal, if futile and, to some extent, counter-productive. One beauty of film is what it suggests, … Continue reading

REVIEW: THE GOLDEN COMPASS

The Golden Compass is an extraordinary movie for one bad reason: it manages to be both rushed and boring at the same time. The film blows forward at a breakneck pace but never thinks to make anything happening on screen in the least bit interesting. By the end of the movie you feel like you’ve … Continue reading

REVIEW: THE MIST (JEREMY’S TAKE)

Frank Darabont’s The Mist is far from a flawless work: its first act relies on contrived conflict to set its ideologically (and theologically) diverse characters against each other; the basic conventions of the narrative will be overly familiar to anyone who’s seen "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"; and, on a strictly superficial level, … Continue reading

REVIEW: MIST, THE (NICK’S TAKE)

Remember way back when there was a rumor about Frank Darabont possibly being involed in a television miniseries remake/continuation of The Thing? I don’t think I imagined that. Well, regardless of all of that Frank Darabont has his The Thing. It’s called The Mist. In fact when I look back on this harrowing and unforgettable … Continue reading

REVIEW: SOUTHLAND TALES

To paraphrase Stephen Colbert: Is Southland Tales a great disaster or the greatest disaster? While Southland Tales won’t end a studio, as Heaven’s Gate did, it’s also a much, much worse movie than that legendary failure. Southland Tales is like Heaven’s Gate, though, in that it seems to be a product of unrestrained hubris, a … Continue reading

BOOK REVIEW: HEAD GAMES

BUY IT FROM AMAZON: CLICK HERE!MSRP: 14.95AUTHOR: Craig McDonaldPUBLISHER: Bleak House BooksPAGES: 300Author website You’ve never heard of Hector Lassiter? Pulp novelist. Screenwriter. The man who lied about his age to ride in the Pershing Expedition? Who went overseas to fight in Europe? Notorious womanizer. He had that famous falling out with Hemingway and had a … Continue reading

REVIEW: BEOWULF (DEVIN’S TAKE)

I knew that Beowulf would be a quality bit of spectacle after seeing the 3D preview at Comic Con this summer. I was blown away by the visuals and especially by the 3D experience, but nothing I saw in that footage indicated to me that Beowulf would be anything other than a novelty thrill ride. … Continue reading

BOOK REVIEW: BUTCHER BIRD

BUY IT FROM AMAZON: CLICK HERE!MSRP: $14.95AUTHOR: Richard KadreyPUBLISHER: Night Shade BooksPAGES: 256 This is my favorite fantasy novel of the year, and I hate fantasy*. It’s an old and somewhat tired concept: Regular guy has his eyes opened to the weird wonders of the world and beyond and finds that he’s the better for it, … Continue reading