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
If you or I were to be the target of a blatantly politically motivated investigation by the US government, we’d be sweating. When it happens to Michael Moore, he’s smiling. The US Treasury department is investigating Moore for bringing ‘ailing September 11 rescue workers’ to Cuba for medical treatment, despite our longstanding travel ban against … Continue reading
Okay, James Wolcott. I’ll see your "lean cut Giacometti sculpture with a lone wolf aura" and raise you "the apotheosis of wounded American manhood in an era when being a man was anathema to the national mood". I can’t win here because I had to click through to your linked picture of a Giacometti sculpture; … Continue reading
My t-shirts often get comments from the talent at press days (Kurt Russell loved this one), but today one may have gotten me a scoop. When I sat down to have a one on one interview with the legendary director William Friedkin to talk about his creepy and excellent new film, Bug, he took notice … Continue reading
While many of my peers grew up on TV showings of Asian martial arts films, my foreign movies of choice were always the Hammer horror films. Lush and vibrant with incredible atmosphere, the Hammer films defined a certain kind of gothic horror. To this day I can’t see fog creeping along the ground without thinking … Continue reading
The Ex feels like a sitcom. There’s a wacky workplace filled with kookie characters. There’s the heartwarming but stressful home life. There’s a zany neighbor kid who brings the cute but also a little bit of safe edge. And it stars Zach Braff and Jason Bateman, guys who are more familiar to us from their … Continue reading
I love to name drop someone who actually knows who I am. It’s so rare. Hanna Hall is a fucking talented lady and so incredibly lovely to boot. I mean, she’s not lovely to boot. I’ve tried kicking her, but it always ends up with me on the ground and her scurrying off to safety. … 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
Jack Valenti may be dead, but the MPAA’s draconian practices are not; as of today, the organization will view the smoking of cigarettes in movies as a determining factor in their already screwy ratings system. This decision has been a long time coming, particularly for an industry based in a state that’s led the way … Continue reading