I received one email excoriating me for being too harsh on Chris McQuarrie’s Valkyrie. Unfortunately for the McQuarrie Defense League, it was from someone who hadn’t read the script. Look, no one’s more disappointed than me that McQuarrie’s output since The Usual Suspects has consisted of one measly movie. Though it’s not unprecedented for a … Continue reading →
In a rare moment of getting it right, Dino De Laurentiis has hired Robert Rodriguez to direct the remake of the Jane Fonda fever dream of sexuality, Barbarella. Starting with the obvious caveat that no version of the French comic book that is made today can match Roger Vadim’s continental swinger movie from 1968, Rodriguez … Continue reading →
As I watch the first real trailer for The Golden Compass, I know two things for certain. One, that Sam Eliott is going to win me over as the balloon enthusiast Lee Scorseby. And two, that Daniel Craig has a fifty percent chance of gaining my trust, despite the massive simplification and deviation from the … Continue reading →
The Crop: Valkyrie The Studio: United Artists The Director: Bryan Singer The Writers: Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander The Producer: Singer, Mcquarrie and Tom Cruise (As Exec Prod.) The Actor: Cruise The Premise: Claus von Stauffenberg, a conscience-stricken German WWII hero, joins a clandestine military resistance operation dedicated to toppling Adolph Hitler by any means … Continue reading →
As Heroes prepares to complete their horrible rip-off of Watchmen in tonight’s season finale, Aint It Cool News has broken three very big rumors in regard to casting in Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ classic comic book. According to the site’s scooper, Keanu Reeves is being offered the role of Dr. … Continue reading →
Just as suddenly as it appeared, IBelieveInHarveyDentToo.com seems to have disappeared, leaving behind just a black page with “Page Not Found.” But if you highlight the entire page you’ll see a long series of ‘Hahahaha’s – and a hidden message Secreted amidst the ha ha has is “See You In December” – possibly referring to … Continue reading →
The Indiana Jones IV information keeps rolling in (read last night’s revelation of Shia LaBeouf’s character and the film’s plotline here), thanks to ‘Belloq.’ Our idol-theiving source confirms rumblings I’ve heard from other quarters (and frankly, from common sense): Karen Allen will be reprising the role of Marion Ravenwood in Indiana Jones IV, and she’s … Continue reading →
What I think it’ll take for me to enjoy a new Jack Black movie: A small budget. A concept that doesn’t take a dictionary and a stack of Tijuana Bibles to explain. Pants. Which is a roundabout way of saying, of course, that Nacho Libre was terrible and that anything that looks remotely like it … Continue reading →
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We could very easily have spent this whole article discussing sequels and … Continue reading →
If you haven’t seen James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction, try to do so. It’s one of those flawed but fascinating documentaries that capures a subject in spite of itself. In this case, the subject is obviously Ellroy, as he talks about his history and crime writing influences, primary among them the murder … Continue reading →