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: MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN

Few actors have a following as tenacious as Bruce Campbell’s. There is hardly a genre property that hasn’t had a suggested dreamcasting of “The Chin” (or “The Bruce” or just “The Man”. Campbell’s nicknames tend to start out similarly). If the enthusiasts had their way, we would have Bruce Campbell as Superman, The Comedian and … Continue reading

REVIEW: MURDERBALL

Wheelchair rugby. It sounds like a contradiction in terms. The game is played in post-apocalyptic wheelchairs on basketball courts, as squads of quadriplegic smash into each other to get possession of a ball and deliver it to the other team’s goal line. Fast and brutal, the sport once known as Murderball is thrilling and scary. … Continue reading

REVIEW: DARK WATER

Movies are like alchemy. If they were like chemistry, you could add the right ingredients – great actors, a promising director with visual style – and get what you would expect, a good movie. But because movies need some transmutive magic the end result is never obvious. Take for example Dark Water, a movie that, … Continue reading

REVIEW: CRONICAS

What is the journalist’s responsibility? Is it to get the best story or is it to help people? This is the question that haunts John Leguizamo in his first Spanish speaking role in Cronicas. A hotshot reporter for a pan-Latin America news station, Leguizamo and his team are in Ecuador doing follow up interviews about … Continue reading

REVIEW: FANTASTIC FOUR

You can’t help walking into a movie with expectations. You’ve seen the ads, you saw the trailer, maybe you’ve read the snarky commentary we have added to the news here about the movie. Usually you can be pretty sure that you won’t come out of the theater too surprised. It happens, of course – although … Continue reading

REVIEW: UNDEAD

Of the assorted cinematic horror themes, zombies are one of my favorite poisons. Sure, I derive a degree of enjoyment from the slashers, lycanthropes, spooks, bloodsuckers, demons and sea-beasts, but for some reason those doddering reanimated cannibals amuse me the most. That said, I can still smell the fetid stench when these elements are poorly … Continue reading

REVIEW: WAR OF THE WORLDS

Steven Spielberg is widely credited as having invented the summer blockbuster. His Jaws was the first film of its kind, a massive and unstoppable ticket-selling machine, just as single-minded as the shark itself. But the blockbusters that have come after have strayed from the Jaws blueprint – it’s easy to forget that Jaws isn’t a … Continue reading