No film has divided me in recent memory like Snakes on a Plane. We here at CHUD were early adopters of the phenomenon, and it’s been sad seeing the thing run into the ground the way it has been in the last few months. There’s something primal and beautiful about this movie that doesn’t need … Continue reading
Last year we heard that Ron Howard was going to tackle the story of Cortez and the conquest of the Aztecs in The Serpent and the Eagle, to be written by Brian Helgeland. I don’t know if that’s still happening, but if it is, we have a Dueling Cortez Movie Race on our hands – … Continue reading
Before it even officially made it over here, cruelty master Park Chan-Wook’s Lady Vengeance (formerly Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) still made the Best of 2005 lists of Devin (HERE), Russ (HERE) and myself (HERE), because we’re the wily sorts, and prone to cheating. Our friends at Tartan are bringing the tragic tale stateside, and it’ll probably … Continue reading
Poor Baz Luhrmann can’t catch a break these days. He was competing with Oliver Stone to get an Alexander the Great project off the ground, and when Stone’s stunk, it sank Baz’s take on the subject. That was a number of years just wasted for the director. Now he’s gotten his act together to get … Continue reading
Samuel L Jackson continues to indiscriminately sign on to projects, the latest being an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story 1408, itself an adaptation of a section of his book The Shining. Jackson seems to just sign whatever contract is on the top of his pile these days, and he’s working harder than a man … Continue reading
I was hoping that after Mr. & Mrs. Smith Doug Liman would return to making smaller movies. He hasn’t, but it seems like he’s meeting me halfway – the most famous person currently on board his next project, Jumper, is Jamie “Gone after the second act of King Kong” Bell. The movie is a sci-fi … 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
I guess comic books are still a dependable source for movie material, but studios must now be sifting through the cheapie bins looking for hidden gems. "Hey, what’s this stuck between Bloodpool and D.P.7? Power & Glory? Never heard of it! Looks good, here’s my quarter!" New Line has rescued Howard Chaykin’s comic Power & … 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
Maybe we should change this site’s name to Cinematic Happenings Under David Dobkin. That’s right, this is the second news story in a row featuring the director of The Wedding Crashers – earlier tonight I brought you what I’m pretty sure is the scoop that Dobkin is directing an adaptation of the horror-comedy comic RIPD … Continue reading