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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…

DAILY GRABOID 3.22.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading

FROM MAYBERRY TO THE MIDDLE EAST

Will "liberal Hollywood" finally make a straightforward statement (or at least a sideways swipe) on governmental policy and this century’s Middle East catastrophe? Or will we have to wait for the next movie set in futuristic London for some overt political perspective? We’ll see how an A-list filmmaker like Ron Howard deals with Iraq — … Continue reading

JESUS’ AUNT

The whole Christ family is getting cast for Catherine Hardwicke’s take on the life of the Virgin Mary, Nativity. Shohreh Aghdashloo is going to go from curing mutants in X3 to being the auntie of the Savior in the film, playing the sister to Keisha Castle-Hughes. The film is getting hurriedly put together for a … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 3.21.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading

SOME HOT FUZZ BUZZ

We’ve been salivating for another fried gold slice from the masterminds behind Shaun of the Dead, arguably the best balance of horror and comedy since American Werewolf in London. Can they reach similar heights with the tired buddy-cop formula? Probably! This isn’t really brain-altering news, but the blokes have finally started production on Hot Fuzz in an official … Continue reading

MEAT FOR THE GRIND HOUSE

Official details on Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s horror/exploitation double-feature Grind House have been pretty scarce, but now that the flick has started shooting down in Austin, news should slowly start oozing forth like a Nicotero effect. While nothing has hit the trades yet, apparently Sin City looker Marley Shelton (the crimson-lipped "Customer" from the … Continue reading

TWO HORSE BLACKTOP

I thought Monte Hellman was over and done. After all, the last film the guy made was 1989’s Silent Night, Deadly Night 3, not the most auspicious finale for the man who brought us The Shooting and Two Lane Blacktop. Sometimes Hollywood takes people like Hellman and eats them up – and sometimes it magically … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 3.20.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading

RETURN OF THE RAT(NER)?

I got a couple of emails telling me that Brett Ratner was directing the Wolverine spin-off movie. I haven’t even seen X3 and this just about ruined my week, until I actually looked at the article where this information comes from – and no such thing is actually said. MTV.com talked to Vinnie Jones, who … Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: THE RUINS BOOK COVER

I’ve wanted to integrate some coverage of books into the site for a while; it just seems like an obvious extension of what we already cover, and I think there’s room on a site like CHUD for coverage of books that aren’t part of an epic fantasy series or written by Stephen King. That’s why … Continue reading