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FROM TEEN PREGNANCY TO DEMONIC POSSESSION

There’s a lot of buzz around a young woman named Diablo Cody, and for good reason: her screenwriting debut, Juno, is completely fucking terrific. Cody manages to walk the line of being indie and precious and giving her characters quirky, perhaps overstylized dialogue while keeping everything emotionally real and honest. I saw the film with … Continue reading

THOMAS CROWN GOES DUTCH & DIRTY

While John McTiernan’s remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (co-written by CHUD fave Kurt Wimmer) was one of summer 1999’s more pleasant surprises, the clamor for a sequel wasn’t exactly deafening. And, yet, Pierce Brosnan persisted, figuring that Eric Ambler’s novel The Light of Day (subsequently made as Topkapi by Jules Dassin), would be perfect … Continue reading

AVATAR’S VILLAIN LOVES THE LAW

Matt Gerald looks like a cop, and in the photo to the right he looks like a cop who’s one chromosome away from being an Alaskan vampire. Consequently he’s usually cast as a law-giving type: in the upcoming Choke; in Terminator 3, S.W.A.T, Tigerland, etc. (OK, he was a military officer in Tigerland. Close enough.) … Continue reading

PIMP MY VIETNAMESE VILLAGE

Oliver Stone’s Pinkville continues to add cast members, but there’s one role that’s going to prove tough to fill: that of a ten year old Vietnamese girl who sees rape and murder of her mother and sister and the burning of her home, who testifies to the atrocities committed by American soldiers at the My … Continue reading

DYLAN WALSH IS STEPPIN’ TO THE O’QUINN

If Screen Gems opts goes PG-13 with its remake of Joseph Ruben’s The Stepfather (as they’re currently doing with the new Prom Night), well… who gives a shit? The original film was a nasty little piece of work that benefitted from taut direction, a Donald Westlake screenplay and Terry O’Quinn turning in one of the … Continue reading

DO YOU HAVE THE CRAZY?

The Signal is an excellent film that lives right at the intersection of art movie and horror movie, a film that isn’t afraid of being a little bit avant garde at times but is also happy to kill a character by brutal bug spraying to the throat. I saw it at the LA Screamfest in … Continue reading

ARONOFSKY PINS DOWN MICKEY ROURKE

Darren Aronofksy has cast Mickey Rourke in the lead for one of the chapters in his Men of Physical Combat Trilogy (the other films are The Fighter, about real life boxer ‘Irish’ Mickey Ward, and The Atomic Wedgier, cast and storyline unknown), The Wrestler. The role had originally been earmarked for Nicolas Cage, who suddenly … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE’S B.O. WRAP UP – 11/9/07

Titles Weekending Purr Screen Total 1 Bee Movie $26,000,000 (-31.6%) $6,592 $72,214,000 2 American Gangster $24,319,000 (-44.2%) $7,949 $80,679,000 3 Fred Claus $19,225,000 $5,335 $19,225,000 4 Talking Points: The Musical $6,710,000 $3,029 $6,710,000 5 Dan in Real Life $5,872,000 (-25.4%) $3,025 $30,678,000 6 Saw IV $5,010,000 (-51.6%) $1,725 $58,086,000 7 The Game Plan $2,410,000 (-38.7%) … Continue reading