Now that Will Eisner’s in a coffin he’s able to spin in it. Nah, that’s unfair. The news coming down the pike that Frank Miller is stepping in to direct a feature film of Eisner’s seminal comic The Spirit could easily be construed as a case of a creator standing on the shoulders of giants, … Continue reading
It’s not that often that you go to the movies and feel the magic of special effects. Most films have CGI effects that feel completely CGI – not so with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. People have no idea that Davey Jones doesn’t have a bit of make-up on him – Bill Nighy … Continue reading
The Graboid and Chud Thinker features have inspired me. Here is a puzzle from the mind of Blofeld – also known as Chud’s shortz. This is a standard “Cryptogram” puzzle. I have taken a quote from a beloved movie and anagrammed the letters into the answers of the 8 clues. If you answer a clue, … Continue reading
Forgive me if this is old news but since Devin and Dave are off at Comic Con and a Vegas set visit, I’m going to carry the news torch. Then again, it may be like a glass of nice cool iced tea since I’m neither a Communist or a pedophile… Eric Bana has pleased the … Continue reading
My "review" of Pan’s Labyrinth will arrive later this week and believe me it’s been one of the tougher reviews to write. It’s hard to not to just fellate Guillermo in text, something you’ll realize when you see it. This is the first San Diego Comic Con I’ll not be going to since the late … Continue reading
I like to believe regular CHUD readers are reasonably smart — astute enough to have found our site, and masochistic enough to keep returning. We’ve been running the Daily Graboid for nearly a year now to test your movie knowledge, but how about straining that noggin? The CHUD Thinker is a puzzle, rebus, pictogram, visual … Continue reading
How does the anarchic comedic sensibilities of Anchorman director/star combo Adam McKay and Will Ferrell mesh with the middle American sensibilities of NASCAR? Not that bad, it turns out. When I attended the Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (when is this movie screening again? I love it!) junket, I asked Adam McKay if … Continue reading
For the last couple of weeks G4 has been featuring Nick and I as talking heads on its weekly countdown show, Filter. It airs every Saturday at 7pm Eastern/Pacific, and repeats on Sundays at 5 and 11. But you may have missed some of these shows. The folks at Filter have been good enough to … Continue reading
Aint It Cool News broke the story this weekend, and now SciFi Wire has all but confirmed it – Doug Jones will be making a major announcement at Comic Con this weekend about his casting in a big superhero movie. And the word is that he’ll be playing the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four and … Continue reading
It turns out that the guy who runs SpielbergFilms.com had never met big Steve. I mean, how does that happen? Even I’ve met him twice, and SpielbergFilms is easily the best site on the web for anything about Spielberg, and an invaluable resource when it comes to cutting through the bullshit that inevitably surrounds the … Continue reading