Yesterday we showed you the first TV commercial from Cloverfield, and some folks on our message board commented that it didn’t seem like the spot was selling the monster. Well, Paramount ain’t that dumb – they’ve got a second spot and it’s all about the monster. It’s mostly iterations of the same footage we’ve seen, … Continue reading
At 67 with a major career behind him, John Hurt doesn’t have much to lose by speaking frankly. And while he doesn’t quite rag on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in his new interview with Premiere.com, he certainly doesn’t come across like an overscripted publicitybot like so many actors with new … Continue reading
When the invite for The Great Debaters press day hit my inbox, I made two immediate requests: 1:1 interviews with Denzel Washington and Nate Parker. I was fairly certain that Denzel would decline, but, hey, it never hurts to ask. As for Nate, whom I’d never seen in anything before, I was going on the … Continue reading
Sam Raimi is going back to his horror roots with his next movie, directing a low(er than Spider-Man 3‘s) budget supernatural thriller he cowrote with brother Ivan way back in 1992, right after they wrote Army of Darkness. Called Drag Me To Hell, the film is about someone who gets cursed (The Curse was the … Continue reading
Where the author tells you of the many things out there that make him want to become a master thief with an exceptionally large basement to hoard the myriad material things worth owning and loving. Installment One.Installment Two.Installment Three.Installment Four.Installment Five.Installment Six.Installment Seven.Installment Eight.Installment Nine.Installment Ten.Installment Eleven.Installment Twelve.Installment Thirteen.Message Board Discussion. Good day. The love … Continue reading
We have an exclusive clip from Michael Haneke’s remake of his own film, Funny Games, which is going to be premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and then hitting theaters in February. Two creepy young men take a family hostage in their own home and begin torturing them by making them take part in … Continue reading
Last night I was talking to CHUD’s box office guru Andre Dellamorte about Cloverfield, the JJ Abrams produced giant monster movie. I had recently heard that the last FX shots for the film were due yesterday, and with the movie only a couple of weeks away, I was figuring that screenings would have to start … Continue reading
In its most ludicrous decision since the censoring of the one-sheet for Michael Winterbottom’s The Road to Guantanamo (exclusively unveiled by CHUD back in ’06), the MPAA has rejected the poster for Alex Gibney’s Oscar short-listed documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, because its depiction of torture "is not suitable for all audiences". At issue … Continue reading
I’ll never give up on Chow Yun-Fat, but I have completely given up hope that he’ll ever make a decent English language film. Actually, I remember kinda liking James Foley’s The Corruptor, but let’s not get into that now. Rather, let us slouch in collective dismay at the news that the one-time coolest man in … Continue reading
Once upon a time, Stephen Sommers’s G.I.J.O.E. was threatening to go all A-list on us with the casting of George Clooney as Duke. Actually, that was never going to happen, but it’s fun to remember ridiculous casting rumors. Now that the production has lowered its sights, they’re finally making headway in filling out some of … Continue reading