I’d seen this image of Optimus Prime doing his best Mr. Universe impression with glowing eyes and ribcage a few days ago, but since it was on the cover of Empire, and since Optimus Prime can be seen in bootlegged sketches all over the internet and since this reveal was covered in a few other … Continue reading
When Silent Hill was released earlier this year, its clock was critically cleaned as underwhelming, nonsensical and plodding (read the CHUD review here). Yet, using a rusty machete in a real-life manifestation of the road to hell being paved with the best intentions, Silent Hill carved up some guilty fascination and laid it firmly on … Continue reading
Before James Brown’s newly lifeless body even had a chance to begin to experience rigor mortis, Brian Grazer and Spike Lee announced that they’ll be making a biopic about the revered R&B legend. To be fair to the newly attached at the hip duo, Grazer was involved in the project before Brown fell flailing to … Continue reading
Am I totally nuts or is that Brian Posehn playing the preacher hitching Sue Storm and Reed Richards? If this is the case, I am preemptively declaring that not only did I like better Fantastic Four than Batman Begins, I am going to like Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer better than The Dark … Continue reading
As I was writing this piece I found myself a little confused. I felt like I knew that DeNiro was going to star in What Just Happened?. But how could I? All of the other sites were reporting it as news. I must have been mistaken. But no. A quick check of the CHUD archives … Continue reading
Val Kilmer has a reputation of being hard to work with. And maybe that reputation has kept him from getting some great roles in the past. But are things so bad that he has to revisit Real Genius, a comedy he starred in back when my voice was changing?* Virgin.net, without resorting to tactics like … Continue reading
And just like that, Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween is taking Shape. Last week we reported that the young Michael Myers was cast – over the holiday weekend it was revealed that big grown-up Mike is cast as well, and Zombie has gone brawny with one-time wrestler and Sabertooth, Tyler Mane. It’s an interesting choice, … Continue reading
What a year. 2006 didn’t have the greatest depth of good movies – I wasn’t exactly sweating which films would make the 15 – but the ones that were good tended to be very, very good. That’s why I ended up with a tie for first place – and why, quite honestly, any of my … Continue reading
***Update***Dave is still gone, but I’m thinking about re-running his ‘Dave’s Underground’ pieces in January. My wife was playing the Christmas mix-CD he made a few years ago and it reminded me just how much it stinks that he bid us adieu. It’s a slow time a year and a 2007 without him sucks just … Continue reading