We have some very cool prize packs to give out for Waist Deep, which hits DVD today. I’ll have a three pack of Waist Deep, Inside Man and Assault on Precinct 13 (remake) for some long-suffering readers of CHUD.com. How do you win these DVDs? Easy – prove you’re a reader of CHUD.com. Send me … Continue reading →
Mark Savage is an Australian filmmaker who doesn’t just push the boundaries of sex and violence in film, he blasts through them with a shotgun. He’s been a cult director for some time, but now Subversive Cinema is living up to their name and has released a box set with three of his most extreme … Continue reading →
Terry Gilliam was at the ThinkFilm offices doing interviews in a conference room. Right outside the room was a big cardboard sign, the kind that homeless beggars have. It said, “Studio-less Filmmaker/Family to Support/Will Direct for Food.” It was a prop for his late afternoon publicity stunt, when he would go to the Daily Show … Continue reading →
65 Years of “Stan the Man”: Stan Lee Meets The Amazing Spider-Man By Jeb D. It’s been 65 years since Stan Lee first went to work for Marvel Comics. It seems amazing that he spent his first couple of decades there as an essentially anonymous hack, churning out the formula romances, Westerns, and monster stories … Continue reading →
I first heard about Shortbus at the first or second Tribeca Film Festival. John Cameron Mitchell was on a panel about sex in film, and he talked about how he was working on a new movie that would be set in a New York City salon (not the beauty type. Think more like intellectuals) and … Continue reading →
I guess since he didn’t actually have one in the hand it’s technically alright he went for the two fuller ones in the bush. Or on the beach or whatever.
We are just days away from the premiere of season 3 of Battlestar Galactica, the only truly superb TV show in the SciFi Channel’s history. If you’ve read me gushing about Battlestar before you’ll know that I think this series is, in many ways, just about as good as TV gets. A lot of the … Continue reading →
Does he suck? Does his comic? The Daywalker is Back in Blade #1 By Jeb D. Blade got his start as a member of one of the best ensemble casts of the 70’s: the intrepid vampire-hunters of Tomb of Dracula. When Hollywood came calling, though, it became necessary to simplify things by ignoring and/or rewriting … Continue reading →