Heck yes. I Am Legend. Big and bad and large in scope. How it was meant to be. I’m dying to see this one and though I’m not sold on Will Smith as the lead I’m more than sold on Francis Lawrence’s ability to deliver a great flick, and the honest truth is that this … Continue reading
My biggest worry with Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones has been that the tone might not match up to the haunting beauty of the screenplay. As we all know, Jackson has a tendency to go garish with his situations and characterizations; this is fine for The Frighteners or even Heavenly Creatures, … Continue reading
Last night I was hobnobbing with the elite of the horror movie news scene at the premiere party for P2 (I didn’t go to the movie, I just ate their food and drank their rum. And watched Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols totally take off together), and someone told me that Billboard had announced that … Continue reading
Lately we have been less interested in doing roundtables here at CHUD. The idea of sharing the exact same content with a dozen other outlets and having to deal with plenty of crummy questions just doesn’t seem worth it, in the long run. But of course there are always exceptions, and one of the big … Continue reading
The trailer for Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise in a Nazi uniform and eyepatch movie, has debuted at Yahoo! movies. It’s one of those trailers that gives the whole movie away, but I guess there’s no harm in that, since anybody with a brain knows the plan to kill Hitler failed. There are three things I … Continue reading
Looking at the cast list of Star Trek XI I see that the only person who I find really exciting is Eric Bana as the bad guy. If the rest of the bridge crew had been better cast I might have been psyched about Simon Pegg as Scotty, but he’s surrounded by third rate actors … Continue reading
Guillermo del Toro has added another item to his already heaping plate of future projects. He’ll be writing, directing and producing a movie version of an obscure British TV series, The Champions, for United Artists. The Champions ran for 30 episodes from 1968 to 1969, and it was about a secret UN trio called Nemesis … Continue reading
Frank Langella is making the rounds promoting his latest movie, Starting Out in the Evening, and as will happen when you place anyone in a room with a bunch of internet writers, he’s spilling on his next projects*, including The Box and Frost/Nixon, but what I’m interested in is what he had to say about … Continue reading
So what’s up with the publicity still of the Des Moines Priapsis Players community production of Heat? Actually, it’s one of four stills of the Pacino / De Niro team-up Righteous Kill, a movie that’s only about a decade too late. Empire Online has the exclusive pics, one of which demonstrates that, yes, you can … Continue reading