ESSENTIAL CHUD – DAY SEVEN
Doug Jones is a guy you should know by name, if not by voice. After appearing in Blade 2, Guillermo del Toro tapped him to play Abe Sapien in Hellboy. More recently Jones brought to life both Pan and the Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth. He’s pretty much wrapped his role as the Silver Surfer … Continue reading
When I was a kid and my mom or the school would take me to the planetarium, there were a couple of items in the gift shop that always fascinated me to no end. There was astronaut ice cream, the space age treat. There were the pens that could write upside down and in zero … Continue reading
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
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
The Polish Brothers seem like they work slowly – it’s been eight years since Twin Falls Idaho, with The Astronaut Farmer only the third feature to follow their debut. But with acting and writing gigs for other filmmakers, plus their own research, their output isn’t as surprising. Neither is their focus on Americana, which has … Continue reading
Billy Bob Thornton has played a lot of down home characters, but none so approachable and determined as Charles Farmer, who bucks NASA and the FAA to build his own rocket and explore space in his own way, on his own time. You’re old enough to remember the moon landing. Yes. When Neil Armstrong and … Continue reading