You know your neighborhood is going to hell when Adam Sandler is filming his new movie there. That’s what happened last week when Sandler showed up at the firehouse down the block from me to film scenes for his new movie, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He also shot scenes at a local … Continue reading
My copy of Alan Moore and Melinda Gibbie’s kiddie porn comic Lost Girls, about the sex lives of Dorothy Gale of Oz, Alice (from Wonderland) and Wendy Darling of Neverland is on back order from Amazon. I was hoping that this book would serve as the final capstone in the “let’s reimagine our childhood characters … Continue reading
Ed Zwick has a specialty, and that specialty is telling stories about the minority experience through the eyes of the white man. Zwick is drawn to other cultures, and how white people have helped them. Through Zwick we have learned how Matthew Broderick freed Denzel Washington in Glory and how Tom Cruise defended ancient Japanese … Continue reading
Fox will do anything to make money – even court Christians. The same corporation that brings you Temptation Island is also bringing you FoxFaith, a new specialty film division aimed specifically at Evangelical Christians. The idea is to tap into that Passion of the Christ market, to get the holy rollers who think the cinema … Continue reading
Gabrielle Union, is you is or is you ain’t the lead female in I Am Legend? IESB.net says you are, but blackfilm.com says nay – that the role of Anna, a human survivor Will Smith’s character stumbles upon in a post-apocalyptic vampire world, will actually be played by Alice Braga, niece of Sonia Braga and … Continue reading
I am really dragging ass today. Just completely exhausted. I blame my tired eyes for mistaking “John Krasinski is writing and directing an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace book” for “Jane Krakowski is writing and directing an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace book.” At first I was all WTF????, and then I saw … Continue reading
If only we had the savvy and networking prowess of Latino Review. Sadly, we are lame and don’t play well with others. Seriously, we’re lame. You should see Kelvin and his associates at Comic Con, they’re like ninjas except instead of shuriken they’re tossing business cards. We’re following Kenny Baker around with cameras. Pick your … Continue reading
Instead of just bumping the one article for the CHUD Podcast, I’m going to give each installment their own so that we can build this thing up a little better and keep it fresh. Of course fresh isn’t exactly on the menu with these shows due to the meandering craziness of them, but you get … Continue reading
The Crypt-O-Gram message board discussion. Damn, I hate Pan & Scan! My DVD player is stuck on full screen mode. Following is a list of title cards from 25 movies. Letters have been chopped off of the front and end of each title. How many of them can you name? Here is the thread for … Continue reading