The fellow above isn’t pissed because Madmartigan escaped again but because he’s one of many human beings in a world before Christianity and broadband internet access. I’d be angry too. Imagine downloading an episode of Dexter at 14.4 baud or worse yet, while being raped by folks with jutting foreheads. That is life twelve thousand … Continue reading
Kenny Ortega might be known around Hollywood right now as one of the masterminds of the lucrative High School Musical phenomenon, but, in my heart, he’ll always be the director of Newsies. (Look, you can throw Batman Begins, The Prestige and Reign of Fire at me all day long, but Christian Bale was never more … Continue reading
That it’s become cliche to lament the passing of Steve Martin’s credibility leaves me with no option but to curse one of my comedy heroes for hatching an uninspired spy thriller premise that, on its face, wouldn’t pass muster as a made-for-cable movie. If you’re so goddamned determined to wreck movies, Steve, could you at … Continue reading
Note to publicists: this extremely NSFW clip from Cashback shall be considered the gold standard for CHUD-linked promotional materials henceforth. If you cannot favor us with this much gratuitous nudity, please don’t bother. Important: this does not apply to Calendar Girls II: Gravity’s Sorrow. If this clip triggers a glimmer of recognition, it’s probably because … Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our our disappointments, our essentials list and slowly exhumed our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Guilty Pleasures. We’ve all got those little flicks that we know are wrong, but feel so right. And … Continue reading
Universal simply cannot be deterred from exploiting their grand history of monster properties, and as a concept, that’s not a bad thing. Classic horror tales like Frankenstein and Dracula endure because they’re set on well-written, fully-fleshed out characters that can be interpreted in a number of ways. And so when whatever current wave of horror … Continue reading
Missing from Anne Thompson’s article relaying Kevin Spacey’s plans to reprise his role as Lex Luthor in the sequel to Superman Returns, currently titled Man of Steel, are a number of things: 1) a budget, 2) a credible explanation as to how Bryan Singer will begin production on Supes 2 next year after completing the … Continue reading
Imagine if Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro suddenly decided they hated each other and would never work with each other again. In my mind, the apparently now-permanent break-up of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat is that catastrophic. Though the two men haven’t worked together in a director-actor capacity since Hard Boiled, most of us … Continue reading
You may not have heard much about Gavin Hood’s Rendition, but, by the end of this September’s Toronto Film Festival, it could very well be a frontrunner for Best Picture. It’s not like this is a stretch; Hood’s Tsotsi won the 2005 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Kelly Sane’s screenplay made the 2006 industry Black … Continue reading
Since May, movie reviews across all media have been eager to exclaim finally, a summer movie that delivers! Now it’s my turn. While Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix isn’t the least artful film in the series, it is rather workmanlike in comparison to the films by Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell. And … Continue reading