After a much-deserved two year break in between mammoth productions, Peter Jackson is taking his first, tentative steps toward directing again by shopping his take on Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones around to the studios. As someone who had little use for King Kong, I think this is great news; at his best, Jackson is … Continue reading
This week will see a series of mini-featurettes about Grizzly Park, my maiden voyage into producing a feature. Directed by the enigmatic Tom Skull [I don’t know his legal name], it’s a nice cocktail of horror and comedy that we’ll hopefully be seeing in theaters later this year. Here’s the second video, Filming a Real … 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. Enjoy!* # 87 – The Onion Field "Something smells like face hole!" The Onion Field:You can count the number … Continue reading
Our 50 Disappointments list has only been running six days and already I’ve seen a troubling trend on our message board: ”I have a soft spot for this one because I saw it when I was fourteen.” This doesn’t make any sense to me. You’re not fourteen years old any more. I am sure there … Continue reading
Over the last few weeks, a continuous drip of Iron Man bits and pieces have been revealed. Devin caught the old-school (excuse me – Mark 1) suit. Nick caught the USA Today reveal of a hunger-striking Tony stark with glowing chest.Glowing chest? Old-school suit? WTFH!?Iron Fans know the latest pic is just ol’ Tony working … Continue reading
"We’ve lost control. Kill everyone." See, you try to corral a few zombies for some yucks, and what do you find yourself faced with? Annihilation. Happens to everyone tho, right? 28 Weeks Later is, of course, the sequel to from-out-of-nowhere powerhouse neo-zombie flick 28 Days Later. Upping the ante this time as zombie franchises tend … Continue reading
There’s nothing more frustrating than having your best-laid travel plans completely fucked up by an unscheduled bit of screwery on the subway. Today was a lovely day and I had a screening in midtown Manhattan, so I decided to take the 4 express train in and walk across town to the movie, while dropping in … Continue reading
I did pretty well on the English half of the SATs way back when, which means I was always good at word matrices and other matches sets of names and concepts. So if you asked me to complete a trio featuring Tina Fey and Amy Pohler I’d say Jane Krakowski or Isla Fisher, maybe even … Continue reading
You’ve no doubt heard the big news by now, but for those of you who’ve been laying low after killing your ex-wife, here’s the short version: Live Free or Die Hard is the Biggest Movie in the Blogosphere!!! Not since Nikki Finke blew the cover off the Spider-Man 3/Sony Internal Tracking Data story has the … Continue reading
The history of Don Murphy and CHUD could fill several articles and more, but suffice it to say that we’ve had a long running association with the guy, and he’s championed a whole farkin’ lot of genre material and big-budget mayhem on the bigscreen (e.g. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Transformers, the upcoming cool-as-hell-looking Paul Giamatti/Clive Owen … Continue reading