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: HOT FUZZ (JEREMY’S TAKE)

There’s nothing worse for a genre filmmaker’s career than to attain geek deification with one’s first picture. While the initial adulation is wonderful, expectations set in as soon as the second movie is announced. Give ’em enough time, and they’ll start writing the next one themselves – either in their heads or as fan fiction … Continue reading

REVIEW: DISTURBIA

I hate nostalgia. It’s an awful quality in human beings, and it’s getting worse as we go further into the 21st century – we’re getting nostalgic for things that happened this week, it seems. No nostalgia drives me as nuts as that for bad things from the 80s, especially bad movies and TV shows. But … Continue reading

REVIEW: LONELY HEARTS

Lonely Hearts is not a bad movie. It’s more often than not a pretty good one; well made and filled with some excellent performances. Yet the movie never quite clicks, perhaps because it insists on telling two stories – one that is dramatic and one that slowly peters out, neither of which complement each other. … Continue reading

REVIEW: GI JESUS

GI Jesus has a lot of things on its mind. It’s thinking about the war in Iraq. It’s thinking about immigration from Mexico. It’s thinking about how soldiers do or don’t reintegrate into society. It’s thinking about how being away affects a soldier’s family, and how the current stoploss policies hit them even harder. And … Continue reading

REVIEW: GRINDHOUSE (RUSS’ TAKE)

We’ve always known that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodgriguez love trashy old b-movies at least as much as chicks and music. They sketched out their own a decade ago in From Dusk Till Dawn, and now they’ve finally gone full bore. The three-hour blast called Grindhouse exhumes, re-examines and reinvents the film’s namesake style. In … Continue reading

REVIEW: REAPING, THE

Even if you’ve always wanted to see the Book of Exodus enacted chapter and verse (with Louisiana doubling for Cairo) I highly suggest not rushing out to buy a ticket for The Reaping. It’s not so much a horror flick or thriller as an enaction of Christian fantasy, where any moral indecision can be resolved … Continue reading