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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…

POLTERGEIST: BACK FROM THE DEAD?

Name recognition is the most important thing in movie marketing. It’s why I’m surprised that the Batman Begins sequel is currently called just The Dark Knight, although I feel like it may end up as Batman: The Dark Knight. If people recognize the name of the movie in some way, the theory goes, they’re more … Continue reading

11CA! – WRITING THE FILM WEBISODE

Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a fantastic writer? Well if you find out, please share that shit with me. As we deliver the bum’s rush to potential investors for 11 Colonels ATTACK! (CHUD Forum), we’ll be offering a handful of offbeat, insightful, and often extremely useless little webisodes for the world … Continue reading

SOMEONE’S GOT AN ARMAGEDDON OBSESSION

If there’s one thing the mid-late 90s taught us – much like the mid-late 70s taught us, and the mid-late 2020s will probably teach us – it’s that watching people and the geography that’s crawling with them get annihilated is great fun. The genre sputtered through the 2000s with The Core, The Day After Tomorrow … Continue reading

ANOTHER WEEKEND WITH OSTERMAN

Terrorists are everywhere. One of the men behind the recently uncovered plot to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix had access to the base as their local pizza delivery guy (just to tie all current events into pop culture, he worked at a place called Super Marios Pizza), and the rest of the plotters were seemingly … Continue reading

LATE TO THE PARTY #3: WILD STRAWBERRIES

As I post this essay, I’m down in Los Angeles, watching my older brother’s graduation ceremonies. He’s getting awarded his Ph.D. in Something Technical, which makes him the first Doctor Arbuckle in the family. I’m not sure exactly what the official papers will call him, but he works with nanorobotics, and getting swarms of fast, … Continue reading

BEN KINGSLEY, FACILITATOR OF FATLITIES

Conceptually, there’s a lot of potential with making a movie about a dysfunctional hitman overseen by a caring minder (played by Phillip Baker Hall) who bottoms out and decides to relocate to try and get his stuff together. To add to the pot, he forms an odd friendship with a normal schlub who doesn’t quite … Continue reading

MAN, ETHAN HAWKE BITES

I really miss the days when monster flicks could be just that without a completely scientific or rational grounding of a fantastic premise. Far too often these days, you can’t enjoy a vampire or zombie film without some background nonsense about hemoglobin, genetics, and plagues. It was a fresh idea at one time for about … Continue reading

BACK AND FORTH WITH ROBERT RODRIGUEZ

I’ve been up, down, and every other direction and inclination with Robert Rodriguez. There’s so much to love about the guy, and that makes his missteps that much more frustrating. While he can do pretty much anything on a film set – shooting, directing, writing, scoring, special effects, cooking – he’s proven he rarely does … Continue reading

MICHAEL MOORE IS MR. END-OF-JUNE

Hoping to rekindle the Fahrenheit 9/11-incited box office firestorm of June 23rd, 2004, The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate have elected to release Michael Moore’s latest controversy courting documentary, Sicko, on June 29th, where it will compete with Pixar’s Ratatouille and Fox’s Live Free or Pass Away Pecefully in Your Sleep. The film, which skewers the … Continue reading