Odds are you stumbled upon this article because your curiosity about the title of this blog got the better of you. Good. I got your attention. Now that I have it, I would like to say you are reading the first of hopefully many blogs by me, Dustin Turley, CHUD.com’s newest blogger. Like previous … Continue reading
There’s an old story about Charlie Chaplin coming in third (or was it fourth?) in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in San Francisco. It’s a story I love telling people. I love bringing it up for no reason to friends in bars and then watching them chuckle as they try to figure out how, … Continue reading
Enclosed in this wonderful, action-packed first blog entry is going to be a little info about myself. I suppose the better you know me and where I am coming from, all the better to understand my views and opinions on the things that I will eventually write about. Moves are pretty much the be-all, end-all … Continue reading
Updated: Read Devin’s interview with John Cusack here It’s not such a shock if you haven’t heard much about John Cusack’s new movie, War, Inc. A Google news search yields an anemic handful of hits. There’s no “arg” for it, unless you count real life. But for certain corners of the internets it’s as much … Continue reading
The First Rant is the Deepest. Yes, boys and girls, it most certainly is. The brief description under my name and next to my handsome face is all you really initially need to know about me. The rest will come through via my writing. However, if for some unknown reason you wish to know more … Continue reading
Debuting at Cannes this year was Wong Kar Wai’s film Ashes of Time Redux. This is a surprise to just about everyone, as the director seems to plan his releases around some kind of Mayan star-calendar or something. After last year’s debut of My Blueberry Nights at the festival, I was expecting to see Quetzalcoatl … Continue reading
What’s the most disgusting thing you’ve ever seen? Some of you might mention a specific bit of icky gore from a b-level horror film that you saw last month; others might recall a moment of pouring salt on a snail and watching it curl up and die. But me? I vividly remember this most disgusting … Continue reading
The house that I grew up in was directly in front of a cemetery, and one of the biggest questions I had to field as a kid was whether or not this fact scared me. Now maybe it is one of those things, where if you are confronted by it all time you just kind … Continue reading
The current state of cinema is one that revolves mostly around the bottom line. Big names, big distribution deals and all the usual content we read day in and day out. Basically, the bigger the better. The only facet that isn’t inflating in any way is the size of the risk that filmmakers take to … Continue reading