With Hostel’s "not quite what we expected" performance this weekend (Dellamorte explains), I’ve heard such talk as this: bloviation that Hostel II‘s opening return is an indicator of big opening horror having run its course. Will 2006/2007 mark the high in horror until the next Scream makes it fashionable again? Or is it all just … Continue reading
Pete Doctor did such a splendid job guiding Monsters Inc. to the screen that I’m going to pretend his next directorial effort, Up, doesn’t sound like a joke project. I mean, what are we supposed to do with a premise that has a seventy-year-old joining forces with a "wilderness ranger" to fight "beasts and villains"? … Continue reading
I have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and Ned Beatty will not have it. Escape As Game 2 of the least competitive NBA Finals since 2002 lumbered its way to tip-off at 6 PM PST, I was anxiously aware that television history was being made on HBO’s East Coast feed. But, being a … Continue reading
For almost a year now I’ve been doing weekly appearances on Playboy Radio on Sirius (website), discussing the new releases, chit-chatting with the hosts and Playmates, and on one occasion in studio, not touching the exposed beautiful breast of a naked cover girl. Pussy be thy name. It’s been a lot of fun working without … Continue reading
For almost a year now I’ve been doing weekly appearances on Playboy Radio on Sirius (website), discussing the new releases, chit-chatting with the hosts and Playmates, and on one occasion in studio, not touching the exposed beautiful breast of a naked cover girl. Pussy be thy name. It’s been a lot of fun working without … Continue reading
If you told me there was a movie starring Frank Langella and Elliot Gould hitting theaters, I would have to assume that it was a rerelease of a film that came out some time in the 70s, when both those guys were really big. Especially if you told me that the movie was about a … Continue reading
Last summer, before going to Comic Con, I did a pit stop in Las Vegas to visit the set of Zak Penn’s The Grand, a new improv comedy set in the world of poker tournaments. Zak’s first film, Incident At Loch Ness, was pretty brilliant, and the cast he had lined up this time – … Continue reading
The most surprising thing about Steve Martin teaming with barely sentient director Harald Zwart (One Night at McCool’s, Agent Cody Banks) for the sequel to the Pink Panther remake is how much it still hurts; I should have given up caring a long time ago. Which Martin sure seems to have done – it’s hard … Continue reading
I’m secure enough in my sexuality to admit to man-crushing on certain actors – guys who I think are the shit, have all of the goods, and should be way bigger than they are. And somewhere in my top 10, you’ll find Johnny Messner. This gravelly-voiced stud has been flittering about the margins for years … Continue reading
In writing for CHUD, you sometimes see news from the same company of the same nature so often that you dismiss it on its face. Ever since Walden Media started up in the “big-budget family entertainment” lane and scored with The Chronicles of Narnia, we’ve seen notice after notice of them snapping up child-oriented fantasy … Continue reading