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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

HYMN FOR A HITMAN

Have you ever seen that Girls Town movie on MST3K featuring Mel Torme as a juvenile delinquent and Paul Anka cameoing as a choirboy who serenades a young harlot with the "Ave Maria"? I only ask because every time I hear the fucking "Ave Maria", I think of that movie. So color me impressed that … Continue reading

SHIA: SPIELBERG :: STEWART: HITCHCOCK

* Noted CHUD reader and Dodgers enthusiast Shia LaBeouf was dropping all kinds of hints at the Transformers junket about a project he was developing Steven Spielberg (or that Spielberg was developing for him whether he liked it or not – which would be kinda creepy and awesome if it were, like, a small-scale remake … Continue reading

THE AYATOLLAHS OF ROCKNROLLA

This is something like my third update regarding Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla, and I still have to reacquaint myself with the premise every time I write about it. Couple that with the fact that I never thought Ritchie was all that great to begin with, and you’ll understand why I’m down on this follow-up to the … Continue reading

RUN, MAX, RUN

If you read Where The Wild Things Are as a kid, you’ll understand why I say it’s a childhood touchstone – the kind that morphs into a generational pass-along. Whether it was the dark yet charming Caldecott winning illustrations, the realization of childhood imagination, the ability to dominate fear and subsequently wield its power, or … Continue reading

THE DEVIN’S ADVOCATE: “MATURE” GAMERS ONLY?

Last week Manhunt 2, a game heavily promoted here on CHUD, was banned in the UK. In the US the game got an ‘Adults Only’ rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, meaning that Nintendo and PlayStation wouldn’t license the game for their respective consoles, essentially killing it dead. The game’s developers, Take Two Interactive, … Continue reading

SORKIN’S GREAT WHITE WAY

You have to give Aaron Sorkin credit: The man loves TV even when it’s not loving him back right now. I wasn’t too sad to see the scattershot Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip suffer a surprisingly quick and quiet demise, and neither were that many of you. But rather than rush back to the … Continue reading

MATT DILLON JUST WANTS TO WORK, MAN!

I might be straying into alarmist territory here, but is consenting to work with the director of Wild Hogs, a pair of Scientologists and Robin Williams (whose impressive/depressing five-film 2006 output remains wholly unseen by me) evidence of a death wish? I’m only asking because, prior to taking a role in the worse-than-dining-on-newborns* You, Me … Continue reading

PROOF OF DISINTEREST

It’s not often that Variety‘s foreign box office recap moves me to tears, but this week’s column pulverized me as if it were the final chapters of Great Expectations. Be prepared to have your heart ripped from your chest cavity and stomped on like it just insolently requested the services of your shine box: "With … Continue reading