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: WHEN A STRANGER CALLS

Do you remember when you would come to school and do your homework for the day in your homeroom? That’s exactly what When A Stranger Calls is like – sloppy and lazy filmmaking that’s so terrible you wish Simon West would have just claimed his dog ate the movie. The movie was ill-fated from the … Continue reading

REVIEW: TRISTRAM SHANDY – A COCK AND BULL STORY

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is brilliant, hilarious, wonderful and warmly entertaining. The concept is simple and complicated – Tristram Shandy is known as a book that is impossible to adapt for film because of its purposefully jumbled structure (it’s an autobiography that gets so sidelined by tangents and asides that the author … Continue reading

REVIEW: BUBBLE

The strangest thing about Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble isn’t that it was shot on a shoestring budget with non-actors in all the roles, or that it’s being released essentially simultaneously in theaters, on cable and on DVD. It’s that what begins as a meditation on the lives of small town people suddenly veers into a murder … Continue reading

REVIEW: ANNAPOLIS

Annapolis is the perfect movie for someone who has never before seen one. The film is aggressive in its attempt to hit as many clichés as possible in its running time, while shamelessly cribbing – and occasionally flat out ripping off – other, better movies. The only interesting character arc in the whole thing is … Continue reading

MUSIC REVIEW: STAR WARS – REVENGE OF THE SITH

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!LABEL: Sony ClassicalMSRP: $18.98TRACKS: 15MUSIC BY: John Williams I don’t know if controversial is the right term, but John Williams’ scores for the Star Wars prequels have certainly provided the material for much discussion over the previous six years since 1999’s The Phantom Menace. Of course, the music for the … Continue reading

REVIEW: HOSTEL (RUSS’ TAKE)

Eli Roth’s Hostel is a movie without any conviction. It’s a horror film that appeals to the middle ground, wades into fear instead of diving in, and relies on the names of other, better directors to sell the package to an audience that should be extremely suspicious. Why suspicious? Just look at the ads, with … Continue reading

REVIEW: HOSTEL (DEVIN’S TAKE)

There were two things that surprised me about Eli Roth’s Hostel – one was the direction the film took, which I wasn’t expecting from the ads. The other was the fact that I liked it. Both of these surprises hit me about halfway through the film. I won’t spill too much on the film’s plot, … Continue reading

REVIEW: MUNICH

2005 is going to go down in history as the year of bloat. Too many movies have gone too long, and Spielberg’s Munich is the latest culprit. Like many of the other bloat films – The New World, or King Kong – it’s a movie that’s not too long because it needs to be, but … Continue reading