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.
“What’s in Rabbit Foot?” someone asks in Mission: Impossible: 3. The answer, my friends, is pure, concentrated MacGuffin. Like any good MacGuffin, Rabbit Foot is the thing that drives the mechanics of this film – in MI3’s case it’s a device (biohazardous, it seems) that evil arms merchant Philip Seymour Hoffman wants, and he’ll kill … Continue reading →
It’s been a while since we did one of these, and you folks have asked for it so here’s a new one. If all goes well I’m going to try and do these for all the big summer releases. Hopefully we’ll also have one tag team review on each podcast starting with the 9th one. … Continue reading →
Sitting down before United 93, I expected a difficult experience. I was prepared for a film that would play to my assumptions about the hijacking and its perpetrators. I worried that it would be crass. And the film is sometimes extremely difficult to watch; it would probably be worthless otherwise. But crass and obvious it’s … Continue reading →
What if they threw a satire and no jokes came? This is the question American Dreamz answers in its interminable running time. Completely castrated and devoid of comedy, American Dreamz is what it looks like when a filmmaker runs out of nerve just before filming begins. The movie barely even attempts to extend its comedy … Continue reading →
Many years ago some friends and I shared rent on a dingy practice space with one of those goth/metal bands that now litter MySpace. You know the ones: homemade backdrop with thorny roses, economy size mascara. They left their lyric book on an amp one day and we had a ball reading it. I don’t … Continue reading →
I think Hard Candy is a film perhaps best seen cold – without any knowledge of the storyline whatsoever. If you don’t know anything about the film, stop reading after this paragraph – the rest of this positive review contains the sort of minor spoilers that tell you what a movie is about and that … Continue reading →
The Notorious Bettie Page isn’t a bad film, I just don’t understand why it exists. It’s a biopic that focuses on a time of the subject’s life mostly devoid of interesting conflict and it’s an examination of sexual subgroup that seems to have no actual interest in that subgroup. Perhaps most strange of all is … Continue reading →
Oh, transvestites! You teach us so much in the movies. You all have heavy emotional baggage, but you maintain such a carefree and fabulous façade that you get over it. This is what you teach us – to loosen up, and maybe enjoy a little Abba or something. Movies have taught me that any man … Continue reading →
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: Da Capo PressMSRP: $15.95PAGES: 278 It must be weird to be present at the birth of something new. I’m not a father, nor do I have any friends who have spawned, so the closest I’ve come is witnessing the construction of the Super S’more: twelve graham crackers, eight bars … Continue reading →
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is like a gift to horror fans. “This is my Christmas,” aspiring psycho-killer Vernon says in the hours before his first murderous rampage, and those of us who grew up loving Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street and their myriad clones and rip-offs (in the … Continue reading →