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DAILY GRABOID 12.29.05

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

REGGIE BANNISTER: AUTEUR!

Here’s some news likely to get fans of Phantasm excited – Reggie Bannister may be giving up ice cream slinging and dwarf killing for directing. In an interview with my pal Daniel Robert Epstein over at reallyscary.com, Bannister reveals some of his future plans. RS: Do you have any desire to write and direct films?Reggie: … Continue reading

DAVE’S TOP FIFTEEN OF 2005

My Top 15 for 2004Devin’s Top 15 for 2005 Questionable though they may seem, my admittedly weird tastes and viewing habits tend to fall somewhere right in the middle of the CHUD collective.  I appreciate craftsmanship, but I also love junk — for example, I missed Good Night and Good Luck and Hustle and Flow, … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 12.28.05

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

RIDLEY’S KINGDOM IS NOW HEAVENLIER

Here’s a trend I like – playing extended cuts of movies in theaters to advertise DVD releases. It’s a fun chance to see a film in its natural setting one last time, and who doesn’t love director’s cuts? That’s a rhetorical question, since some director’s cuts are just too damn long. I can’t even imagine … Continue reading

THEY BOUGHT IT AT THE WICKER STORE

Neil LaBute’s version of The Wicker Man is turning the whole thing around – now it’s a group of matriarchal pagans who burn people alive in a big old wicker man. This is not helping the guy’s image as misogynistic. The first pictures of the titular wicker man have surfaced on the web, and it … Continue reading

POTTER’S PENULTIMATE YEAR

The final Harry Potter book should be headed our way some time in 2007, it seems. JK Rowling has announced that she’s about to start writing it. "For 2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the Harry Potter series," she says on her website. "I contemplate the task with mingled … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 12.27.05

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

DEVIN’S TOP FIFTEEN OF 2005

My Ten Worst for 2005My Top Fifteen for 2004 I learned a lot about the movies this year. I saw over 150 of them in theaters, so I would hope I came out of that with something more than hemorrhoids. One of the things I learned about was the way movies aren’t stationary things. You … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 12.26.05

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