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 →
* 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 →
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 →
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 →
I was born by the river in a little tent. And just like that river, I’ve been running ever since. Captivity’s Just Another Word for Nothin’ Left to Shill If you gaze long into an abyss, I’ve a feeling the abyss will start to look an awful lot like Roland Joffe’s Captivity – or, at … Continue reading →
I grew up on the original Hasbro Transformers TV show like a lot of you, and (hopefully) like a lot of you, I’ve since come to appreciate the mindless entertainment it gave me as a child, but need nothing else from this property. I don’t need the special edition of the animated movie. I don’t … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →