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.
Black Book is a Paul Verhoeven film, so you expect shocking, titillating moments. They’re there – a girl dyes her pubic hair, a Jewish resistance fighter sleeps with a Nazi, a giant vat filled with shit is dumped on someone – but it’s the murky moral ground where he sets the film that makes Black … Continue reading →
Warning: This review contains spoilers and a rampaging lemur. The tragic misperception of grindhouse movies, furthered by fusty film critics who prefer their entertainment wholly honorable and resoundingly stale, is that they are, first and foremost, bad, thus suggesting that those who adore them are, at best, ironic in their appreciation or, at worst, taste-impaired. … Continue reading →
When I used to say that I was really into grindhouse films, nobody knew what I was talking about. Now they’ll think I mean the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double feature. It’s like when Green Day made punk mainstream – you always had sort of assumed that punk would never get near the Top 40 because … Continue reading →
If you’ve been paying any attention to the site lately, then you’ve probably already read our damn good back and forth with Will Arnett and Amy Poehler regarding Blades of Glory. Hilarious stuff. And if you were on the fence about the film, that probably did a lot to push you over toward seeing it. … Continue reading →
I really don’t enjoy reading reviews that are reactions to other reviews rather than the film itself. I enjoy writing them even less. But I found myself battling with that as I tried to get my thoughts together on Scott Frank’s directorial debut The Lookout. There’s a good bit of praise coming from the critical … Continue reading →
This is the second year in a row that I have been lucky enough to see what amounts to a “lost” film. Last year it was the spectacular Army of Shadows and this year it’s the equally impressive Killer of Sheep. While Shadows was the result of a great director reaching the pinnacle of his … Continue reading →
I was incredibly surprised by how well TMNT, Warner Bros’ attempt to restart the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, works. The movie has no right being as good as it is, although some of that reaction could come from diminished expectations. Still, TMNT works effectively as a continuation of the original comics/cartoons/movies as well as … Continue reading →
Walking out of The Last Mimzy I felt indescribably sad. It took me a second to figure out why – after all, the movie didn’t end on a sad note, and even if it did, the film is so incapable of eliciting any emotional response beyond annoyance that I couldn’t imagine it would make me … Continue reading →
Billy Wilder once said that a love story isn’t about what gets a couple together, but what keeps them apart. Knocked Up takes the opposite route with its main couple, as Judd Apatow and his crew spend the film’s running time not finding ways to keep Seth Rogen and Katharine Heigl apart but rather reasons … Continue reading →