Children of Men, one of the two best movies of 2006 (it was a good year) hits DVD this coming Tuesday, and Universal is going out of their way to make sure you know about it, and that you talk about it. And CHUD is happy to help them with this because we like this … Continue reading
Last year the Russian import horror/fantasy movie Night Watch was much hyped and made a moderate splash in the United States. In the ex-Soviet Union it was one of the biggest hits ever, though, guaranteeing the planned sequels. In the time since it has been unsure what the American fate of those films would be, … Continue reading
It was obvious a long time ago that 50 Cent saw himself as more than a rapper. The guy has been branding himself and G-Unit like a seasoned marketing executive, and part of that plan means diversifying, so we’ve had to suffer through a couple of embarrassing forays into the world of acting from the … Continue reading
November ’06 was a pretty big month for video games, primarily thanks to the drooling/panting anticipation of the XBOX 360 exclusive Gears of War. The merits of the game can be debated all day long by brand loyalty soldiers and the people who love to incite them, but fact is, Gears of War jumped to … Continue reading
After a good bit of time idling and doing practice laps, Speed Racer appears to be picking up a decent bit of momentum as it prepares to head into a major box office battle where it’ll take endless left turns with the likes of Iron Man and the next Narnia flick during the May kickoff … Continue reading
The rights to The Green Hornet, a character best known today for his 1960s TV that introduced America to Bruce Lee in the racially insensitive role of Kato, have been bouncing around Hollywood for years now. Universal had him, but they decided that a comic book character from the 30s who was unknown to anyone … Continue reading
Tom Cruise’s United Artists is looking more like a way to get the publicity-challenged actor work more than anything else*. The newly revived UA made Lions for Lambs, a Robert Redford drama about the military, its first production, and Cruise got a job in that. Now UA has bought a WWII thriller for Bryan Singer … Continue reading
Cineastes the world over have been rejoicing at the news that Francis Ford Coppola is back making movies – and back making personal movies – with Youth Without Youth, based on a novel by Mircea Eliade. Expectations have been tempered, though, as Coppola has begun showing the film, first to friends and colleagues and now … Continue reading
UPDATED AT THE BOTTOM! When his son Goro was named director of the upcoming Ghibli Studios adaptation of Ursula K Le Guin’s Tales From Earthsea, fears about Hayao Miyazaki’s retirement grew. Would the most celebrated living animator give up active creative participation in Ghibli films? Today, the answer is definitively, wonderfully, ‘no’. Toho Studios has … Continue reading
One of my favorite bits in Hot Fuzz involves Adam Buxton playing a small town journalist. I wasn’t very familiar with the guy before the film, but have developed a keen interest in him since. That interest has turned to complete and total fandom with this video, which Edgar Wright turned me on to. It’s … Continue reading