With our current CHUD design celebrating Clash of the Titans, now is as good a time as any to bring you this short one on one I did with Ray Harryhausen at San Diego Comic Con. Harryhausen was there to support the DVD release of a colorized version of his classic 20 Million Miles to … Continue reading
I was born at just the right time for Jonny Quest to have absolutely no impact on my childhood. According to Wikipedia, the show’s Saturday morning reruns ceased airing in 1972, while The New Adventures of Jonny Quest didn’t debut until 1986, at which point I was thirteen-years-old and habitually waking up to the work … Continue reading
"Hey, what’s that Creature Corner guy doing writing about a comedy?"Well, since Devin picked up and left the East Coast for the sunny, Armenian-packed land of milk and honey known as LA, Chud has been without a NYC base. I’m the last bastion of hope for all you New Yorkers. Apologies in advance.But I come … Continue reading
Paul Bartel’s original Death Race 2000 is a full-blown non-guilty pleasure. It’s a fantastically fun movie with satire that’s cheap but biting and a memorable bunch of setpieces despite a budget that makes Dungeon Seige‘s craft service pockets look deep. Paul W.S. Anderson’s remake promises to be something significantly smaller. It already sounds terminally calculated: … Continue reading
Here’s a Zack Snyder casting choice every libidinous geek can get behind: Carla Gugino has been announced as the female form behind the original Silk Spectre, Sally Jupiter. Like several other actors in the film, Gugino will be aged to appear both younger and older for scenes taking place at different points on Watchmen‘s timeline. … Continue reading
I know that Thomas Haden Church had a lot of lean years leading up to his sterling turn in Sideways. And I also understand that lots of cats simply want to work constantly to keep the dough rolling in and (hopefully) to exercise those thespian muscles. But Church seems to be accepting projects these days … Continue reading
Ah, the accelerated cycle of Web buzz. For J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield/1-18-08, we’ve gone from excitement at the initial trailer to intrigue regarding the follow-up viral marketing to frustration backlash at the apparent aimlessness of said viral marketing to backlash against that backlash as people write off the frustration as geek loathing since we’re supposedly now … Continue reading
Just when it was getting easier to tolerate Brett Ratner as a perfectly average director with an above-average sense of self-promotion, the very bright and learned and, to the best of my knowledge, sane film critic Scott Foundas had to go and turn the libertine into a cause. In an unusually lengthy profile for LA … Continue reading
Okay, wait what? Anton Yelchin has been cast in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek film as… Chekov? Let’s just get the nerdery out of the way here: Chekov (and his Davey Jones of the Monkees wig) didn’t join Star Trek until the show’s second season. Having him in a Star Trek film set prior to or … Continue reading