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 first video, What is Grizzly … Continue reading
Robinson Devor’s Zoo made a big splash even before anyone anywhere saw a frame of footage. The film focuses on the strange case of Mr. Hands, a Seattle man and father whose secret life as a zoophiliac led to his demise – Mr. Hands would meet with a group of like-minded men who would allow … 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
Mainstream studio comedy these days is pretty much ruled by the Will Ferrell/Judd Apatow/Ben Stiller/Jack Black set, and one of the benefits of getting into their racket is that if you can turn a standout performance amidst all the other overactive hams in these films, you are pretty much guaranteed a starring vehicle of your … Continue reading
I’m not up on my Sara Gran, but I do know my Roman Polanski, and, aside from having the good sense to say no to a champagne/lude cocktail, I’m well aware that the master filmmaker did the crazy-bitch-gets-worked-up-over-nothing subgenre to perfection with Repulsion. But there must be something to Gran’s novel, Come Closer, which Miramax … Continue reading
Remember all that talk of Blood Meridian being Ridley Scott’s next film after Penetration aka Body of Lies? Forget about it. Now that he’s attached himself to Ethan Reiff’s and Cyris Voris’s Nottingham, a revisionist retelling of the Robin Hood legend intended as a star vehicle for Russell Crowe (as the not-so-bad-after-all Sheriff of Nottingham), … Continue reading
During the press tour for The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky revealed to our own Russ Fischer that he had a Biblical project lined up, but he wouldn’t spill the magic beans about which fable he would tackle. Now, in an interview with The Guardian, Aronofsky says that he wants to make a movie about Noah. You … Continue reading
Bill Condon does not lack for humbleness. Though the Academy Award winning screenwriter of Gods and Monsters and the shoulda-been Academy Award nominated director of Dreamgirls must have considerable reserves of confidence stored away somewhere (how else does one manage the combustible egos of Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles and Eddie Murphy on the same movie), … Continue reading
When I’m in the supermarket at 3AM paying for some terrible boxed product to satisfy whatever post-bar craving has possessed me for the evening, I inevitably look in awe upon the many rows of paperback thrillers. The names of both author and novel often seem interchangeable, and the covers rely on geometric color shapes and … Continue reading