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.

MEDIA REPORT: EMPIRE #187

The Magazine: EMPIRE #187 The Pitch: The biggest and nest movie magazine in the world. Made in the UK. Huge. That’s all you need to know.The Cost: $8.99The Month: JanuaryThe Publisher: SameCover Story: Alexander Main Interview: Jack Black PRO: They give out a lot of four star ratings to deserving films. Their coverage for movies, … Continue reading

REVIEW: LEMONY SNICKET

As the Harry Potter films get farther into the book series, the filmmakers are presented with the challenge of condensing hundreds upon hundreds of pages into a two hour movie. Daniel Handler’s Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events presents the opposite problem – clocking in at a few dozen pages per volume, the filmmakers … Continue reading

REVIEW: NATIONAL TREASURE

A sloppy mix of legend and half researched fact, yet another teaming between Nic Cage and Jerry Bruckheimer, a movie full of slow motion and blaring “excitement” music, National Treasure is exactly the sort of film I hate. But somehow, instead of finding myself gnawing at my ankle as the movie went on I was … Continue reading

REVIEW: I ♥ HUCKABEES

It’s been so long since David O. Russell’s Three Kings elevated the quirky indie director into a whole new stratosphere of brilliant filmmaking that I was beginning to despair that he would ever release another movie, and that if he did it would be some sort of awful self-indulgent wanking. Thankfully he finally released another … Continue reading

REVIEW: CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK

Several years after his “Gilligan’s Island with nocturnal aliens” experience, intergalactic fugitive Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel) is holed up on a stark and secluded planet (guess he grew fond of such places during Pitch Black), living the quiet life, chillin’.  That is, until a group of mercenaries led by the exceedingly gruff Toombs (Nick … Continue reading