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BILL MURRAY’S SEEN THE LIGHT

In writing for CHUD, you sometimes see news from the same company of the same nature so often that you dismiss it on its face. Ever since Walden Media started up in the “big-budget family entertainment” lane and scored with The Chronicles of Narnia, we’ve seen notice after notice of them snapping up child-oriented fantasy … Continue reading

VAN SANT’S MERRY PRANKSTERS

Tom Wolfe’s inside-mocking-without brand of satire was never more pungently amusing than with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was published forty-years ago. I haven’t read the book since high school, and can’t imagine how any of it will speak to our intensely connected age; all due respect to Ken Kesey, but to drop out … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE’S B.O. WRAP – 6/10/07

Title of Film Gross of Film Per Screen Totale 1 Ocean’s Thirteen $37,080,000 $10,401 $37,080,000 2 Pirates! Caribbean! World! End! $21,316,000 (-51.8%) $5,326 $253,614,000 3 Knocked Up $20,017,000 (-34.8%) $6,960 $66,241,000 4 Surf’s Up $18,000,000 $5,102 $18,000,000 5 Shrek the Third $15,750,000 (-43.8%) $4,012 $281,892,000 6 Hostel: Part II $8,750,000 $3,723 $8,750,000 7 Mr. Brooks … Continue reading

TWO AND A HALF MINUTES OF NIGHT

Hot on the heels of the teaser poster for 30 Days of Night is the full trailer, which gives you the whole story in a nutshell. Alaska. A month without sunlight. Josh Hartnett. Vampires. Trenchcoats? OK, I have faith in David Slade because Hard Candy was cool, but trenchcoats? Is there a vampire named Louis … Continue reading

FOR NO GOOD REASON: THE BEGINNENING

Preamble I am easily distracted. Some might say I have ADD. I’d like to hurt these people. And I will. One day, I’ll make the whole world pay. Why No Ocean’s Thirteen Review? What’s there to say? It’s essentially review-proof: more so than the other two, Soderberg has designed this film to evaporate from your … Continue reading

TIM STORY IS A LOSER

Maybe it’s a good thing that I’ve fallen behind on my Crisis on Infinite Comic Book Adaptations five parter (part one is here; part two is here) – I hadn’t yet gotten to Vertigo action comic The Losers, and my delay means that I can talk about it with the knowledge that a director has … Continue reading

THOU SHALT WATCH THIS TRAILER

I’ve been curious to see The Ten for a while — it’s Wet Hot American Summer / The State‘s David Wain basically giving the finger to Kieslowski for nintety minutes by making loosely connected comedy sketches based (sorta) on the Ten Commandments. Even if the title reminds me too much of that horrible pre-show ‘entertainment’ … Continue reading

THE INVASION HAS BEGUN

At this point I think I’m more interested in a movie about the behind the scenes dealings on The Invasion, Warner Bros’ updating of Invasion of the Body Snatchers than the actual film being released; original director Oliver Hirschbiegel didn’t make the studio happy with his talky take, and when he wouldn’t make changes producer … Continue reading