It’s pretty incredible to get the chance to interview Donald Sutherland, one of the all time greats, even once. But to do it twice – and just a few months apart? I feel so lucky I’m willing to give back all the big CHUD paychecks and do this job just for the love of it! … Continue reading
Mick Garris has been known as ‘The Guy Who Adapts Stephen King Stuff,’ and while that isn’t the worst niche to have to yourself, it’s probably nice for him to get a chance to spread his wings a little bit as the creator and mastermind of Masters of Horror, the anthology show that airs on … Continue reading
Mick Garris has been known as ‘The Guy Who Adapts Stephen King Stuff,’ and while that isn’t the worst niche to have to yourself, it’s probably nice for him to get a chance to spread his wings a little bit as the creator and mastermind of Masters of Horror, the anthology show that airs on … Continue reading
It’s beautiful outside – the sun is shining, the air is filled with the smell of green things growing, and girls are down to their t-shirts. That must mean it’s time for the moviegoing public to collectively accept whatever half baked bullshit is fed to them by the movie studios – at least as long … Continue reading
Written by Nick Cave, John Hillcoat’s The Proposition is a bleak story set in Australia’s early days, and in the untamed deserts that seem to be very analogous to the American West. Guy Pearce is an outlaw whose younger, soft brother is captured by the authorities and will be hung – unless Pearce finds his … Continue reading
Let me preface this by saying I like baseball as much as movies. I’ve watched just about every Yankees, Braves, and Indians game this season and can watch any baseball game at any time. The months between November and April are probably my most creative but also excruciating to sit through. I’m a baseball idiot … Continue reading
I can’t imagine sitting down with Courtney Solomon and not asking him about his last film, Dungeons & Dragons. It can be weird asking someone about their shitty previous work – sometimes they seem to deny that the film was no good; other times they just say that the movie made a bundle in pay … Continue reading
The last time I met Richard Dreyfuss things didn’t go well. It was on the set of Poseidon, Wolfgang Peterson’s big budget remake of the 1972 camp disaster classic about a huge cruise ship that gets turned upside down. You can read the whole encounter here, but the short version is this – Dreyfuss punched … Continue reading
The last time I met Richard Dreyfuss things didn’t go well. It was on the set of Poseidon, Wolfgang Peterson’s big budget remake of the 1972 camp disaster classic about a huge cruise ship that gets turned upside down. You can read the whole encounter here, but the short version is this – Dreyfuss punched … Continue reading
Art School Confidential reteams the Ghost World duo of director Terry Zwigoff and writer/cartoonist Dan Clowes. Clowes is much beloved in the alternative comic world for his glorious book Eightball, which has always been among the most accessible of the non-mainstream comics. It’s interesting that life has taken Clowes to Hollywood – he’s currently writing … Continue reading