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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…

ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH

There’s nothing more frustrating than having your best-laid travel plans completely fucked up by an unscheduled bit of screwery on the subway. Today was a lovely day and I had a screening in midtown Manhattan, so I decided to take the 4 express train in and walk across town to the movie, while dropping in … Continue reading

LORNE MICHAELS’ UNLIKELY TRIO

I did pretty well on the English half of the SATs way back when, which means I was always good at word matrices and other matches sets of names and concepts. So if you asked me to complete a trio featuring Tina Fey and Amy Pohler I’d say Jane Krakowski or Isla Fisher, maybe even … Continue reading

BLOG HARD, HYPE HARDER

You’ve no doubt heard the big news by now, but for those of you who’ve been laying low after killing your ex-wife, here’s the short version: Live Free or Die Hard is the Biggest Movie in the Blogosphere!!! Not since Nikki Finke blew the cover off the Spider-Man 3/Sony Internal Tracking Data story has the … Continue reading

A SECOND LOOK WITH DON MURPHY

The history of Don Murphy and CHUD could fill several articles and more, but suffice it to say that we’ve had a long running association with the guy, and he’s championed a whole farkin’ lot of genre material and big-budget mayhem on the bigscreen (e.g. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Transformers, the upcoming cool-as-hell-looking Paul Giamatti/Clive Owen … Continue reading

GRIZZLY PARK VIDEO #1

This week will see a series of mini-featurettes about Grizzly Park, my maiden voyage into producing a feature. Directed by the enigmatic Tom Skull [I don’t know his legal name], it’s a nice cocktail of horror and comedy that we’ll hopefully be seeing in theaters later this year. Here’s the first video, What is Grizzly … Continue reading

CHUD’S 50 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS, DAY 6

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

GET A LOOK AT ISLA FISHER’S COOKIE

Mainstream studio comedy these days is pretty much ruled by the Will Ferrell/Judd Apatow/Ben Stiller/Jack Black set, and one of the benefits of getting into their racket is that if you can turn a standout performance amidst all the other overactive hams in these films, you are pretty much guaranteed a starring vehicle of your … Continue reading

REPULSION ENDURES

I’m not up on my Sara Gran, but I do know my Roman Polanski, and, aside from having the good sense to say no to a champagne/lude cocktail, I’m well aware that the master filmmaker did the crazy-bitch-gets-worked-up-over-nothing subgenre to perfection with Repulsion. But there must be something to Gran’s novel, Come Closer, which Miramax … Continue reading

RIDLEY SCOTT MIGHT SHOOT THE SHERIFF

Remember all that talk of Blood Meridian being Ridley Scott’s next film after Penetration aka Body of Lies? Forget about it. Now that he’s attached himself to Ethan Reiff’s and Cyris Voris’s Nottingham, a revisionist retelling of the Robin Hood legend intended as a star vehicle for Russell Crowe (as the not-so-bad-after-all Sheriff of Nottingham), … Continue reading