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LATE TO THE PARTY #2: PULP FICTION

Welcome to this second installment of Late to the Party! A couple weeks ago, in the first column, I recounted my recent experience with the Japanese cult favorite Battle Royale. Being the kind of guy who might foolishly bring a children’s book and LeVar Burton to a rainbow party, I found I hadn’t fully explained … Continue reading

VAL KILMER DAY

God bless Val Kilmer. The guy seems to exist in every Hollywood world at once. He’s got more than a few clunkers acting as dust covers for video store shelves, and usually that’s a clear sign that your days as a theatrically-viable actor are over. But Kilmer continues not only to pop in theatrical films, … Continue reading

VAUGHN FISHIN’

It’s an understatement to say the Weinsteins haven’t had the best luck of late. A string of recent, widely-released films including Hannibal Rising and Grindhouse have failed to make financial impacts and their award push with films like Miss Potter and Factory Girl simply landed lukewarm. There’s always the upcoming Sicko and My Blueberry Nights … Continue reading

EUTHANIZE ‘EM

Hey, America! Hollywood thinks you’re all fucking idiots! Want to prove them wrong? Awesome. Don’t go see Old Dogs next year when it passes through your local megaplex like last night’s Olive Garden. Because you’re inured to the implied insult of studio product like Wild Hogs, I know this is going to be a tough … Continue reading

JULIA STILES STEPS INTO THE ROOM

Slyvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, the book that makes every guy cringe when they find it adorning a female conquest’s bookshelf, is getting dragged out of women’s lit class again, this time by Julia Stiles and the Plum Pictures trio of Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray and Daniela Taplin Lundberg. A watershed work exploring chronic depression … Continue reading

A RETURN TO THE SATELLITE OF LOVE?

The time since the end of Mystery Science Theater 3000 has been eased a little bit by Riff Trax, where Mike Nelson and friends (often his old MST3K cohorts Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, as well as the occasional out of left fielder like Neil Patrick Harris) offer downloadable commentary tracks for movies. The great … Continue reading

THE RAINN WILSON EXPERIENCE

Undeterred by his association with The Last Mimzy, Rainn Wilson, best known as the socially awkward Dwight Schrute from The Office, is bravely forging ahead with his big screen acting career, and may very well have found a pair of worthy collaborators in Mark and Brian Gunn (who both hail from the Missouri Gunns what … Continue reading

CHUD’S 50 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS, DAY 2

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

BEAR WITH ME

Grizzly Park is finished. I’m talking sound effects editing, color timing, credits, the MPAA, and all tha other noise. It came out great and is a really nice change-up from the current slate of horror flicks which simply try to outdo the previous film’s attempts to be raw and edgy. We’re planning to launch the … Continue reading