If you were Daniel Craig, would you pass up the opportunity to work with Fernando Meirelles in order to make an Edward Zwick liberal guilt epic? I’m hesitant to editorialize on this one because I don’t have all of the details, but the talk all over Hollywood today is that Craig is off Blindness, Meirelles’s … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!LABEL: Time LifeMSRP: $18.98TRACKS: 20 Who’d have thought that "geek musical" would become a subgenre on Broadway? The unusual success of Spamalot caused, if nothing else, a mayfly Internet meme about unlikely properties being adapted for musical theater. Usually, the related jokes ended with something along the lines of "Whoa, … Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We’ve tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we’ve begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We could very easily have spent this whole article discussing sequels and … Continue reading
Doing this the right way, counting back as it was back in the day. One a day. Discuss it right here. Previous deaths: 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82. Enjoy!* # 81 -The Abyss As his innards imploded and his skeleton became … Continue reading
The official site for The Dark Knight, which has been showing a Bat Signal for the last week or two, has updated with… a link! The link takes you to ibelieveinharveydent.com, which right now only has a ‘campaign’ image of Dent running for District Attorney. Technically, this is the first image of Aaron Eckhart as … Continue reading
Everyone makes a big deal over what a racist caricature Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu was, but, if these overly sensitive critics would deign to read just one of Rohmer’s wonderful books, they’d learn differently. To wit (from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu): "Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare … Continue reading
I hope someone makes a movie about my life someday. If they do, I’m guaranteed to not only be remembered forever, but also to be remembered as better looking than I really am – after all, they rarely cast uglies in the lead of a motion picture. For example the Bronte sisters were not exactly … Continue reading
300, and its explosive box office run, had a lot of surprises for the industry, but one of the greatest was the ease with which Gerard Butler anchored the film in his star-making turn as King Leonidas. And ever since then, casual fans and fanboys alike have been looking forward to what he’s going to … Continue reading
When people think about teen films from the 80s they fall into a John Hughes reverie, but for my money one of the best teen films of the decade had nothing to do with that guy or his players; it’s Taps, a 1981 military school drama with a killer cast, including George C Scott, Timothy … Continue reading
Hey, now we can say that the summer season is really kicking in. Wait, maybe I should say it like I’m David Caruso:Well, now it’s obvious.Summer’s kicking in.Shit, that was way too Shatner. Or maybe I’m on to something…THE MOST INTERESTING FILM OF THE WEEKWell, since there’s only one picture opening wide this week (Captivity … Continue reading