Jonathan, Devin from CHUD here. You might remember exchanging a couple of emails when Ryan Rotten saw your film Welcome to the Jungle at the American Film Market last year and said it was a remake of Cannibal Holocaust. You seemed like a nice guy, and I was really looking forward to your film. I’m … Continue reading
The basic concept behind Michel Gondry’s new film, Be Kind Rewind, is a touch of genius – when Jack Black accidentally erases all the videotapes at the video store where he and Mos Def work, they have to rerecord all the movies, but featuring themselves. Apparently in the film this process is Sweding, and 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.Message Board Discussion. Good day. The love of consumption … Continue reading
The Dark Knight was filmed in IMAX, and the IMAX website has put together a little featurette about director Christopher Nolan using the format to make his Batsequel. The featurette is mostly about how psyched everybody is to be using IMAX (did you know that it’s a big process? As in large in size? I … Continue reading
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There’s finally reason to get almost tepidly excited about Paramount’s screen version of Scott Smith’s The Ruins: he’s revealed to USA Today that the novel’s malevolent foliage won’t be making like John Moschitta. The conceit of talking vines didn’t collapse my suspension of belief on the page; I mean, I figured if I was able … Continue reading
The big news about the Wachowski Bros’ adaptation of Speed Racer was originally that they were shooting the film in such a way that everything in the frame would be in focus, just like how everything in a cartoon is in focus. I was under the impression that this would require heavy duty camera skill … Continue reading
I want to program a ‘Brad Pitt dropped out of a movie’ macro on my computer*. The guy seems to always be pulling out of projects, from Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain to Almost Famous to The Departed, and now he’s added another to the list of ‘Could Have Been**’ movies: State of Play. This was … Continue reading
Please send letters. Andy Writes: Hi Nick – you always seem to really appreciate feedback, and seeing as how I haven’t sent any in for a while I thought you might appreciate this. Reading CHUD from my desk at the office helps me ease myself into the working day. As I’m in England, by the … Continue reading