The small moral choices are the ones that fascinate me the most, because they’re the ones we all make. We don’t spend our time worrying about robbing a bank or murdering a spouse, but we do think about picking up that ten you saw fall from someone’s wallet or cheating on your wife just this … Continue reading
Opie Cunningham, director of the greatest film ever made starring Matthew McConaughey and Jenna Elfman (EDtv), has done the prudent thing and cast Frank Langella to reprise his role as former President Richard M. Nixon in his big screen adaptation of Nixon/Frost, a new play by Peter Morgan currently wowing audiences on Broadway (starring Langella … Continue reading
My interest in Star Wars has waned to the point of Star Trek, (yeah, I said it- what!) but damned if I don’t revisit the universe that George built and blew up when anything Star Wars-ey rolls into town, so this week has seen more Star Wars on my computer than the past two years … Continue reading
Despite the goodwill garnered (and promptly, I humbly submit, pissed away) by Eddie Murphy in his excellent turn as James "Thunder" Early, the once red-leathered king of comedy continues to join forces with the powers of lowest common denominator in potentially flaccid family fare*. While that last line illustrates a sad propensity for a weakness … Continue reading
Last night was one of the more surreal experiences of my life – I sat in an almost full movie theater and watched a movie in which I was featured. The movie, Heckler, is a documentary about hecklers and critics; it’s told from the point of view of Jamie Kennedy, who received unbelievably scathing reviews … Continue reading
Context makes all the difference in the world. If, for example, the director of The Descent approached Seymour Cassel and said ‘I need a leathery old gentleman,’ a soft rustling of cloth would be followed by the same view of a reproductive organ you used to consult banned library books to find. But if he … 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
The job of newswriting for CHUD is nothing if not taxing on your general pop culture/geek culture breadth of knowledge. Personally, I get kind of bummed when I read that a film is based on something from a “noted” or “acclaimed” author, and I know next to nothing about the person. So while I can … Continue reading
If the 1953 film How to Marry a Millionaire is to be believed, all a golddigger (watch out!) has to do is have the luck of being nearsighted or presumptive. How not to marry a millionaire is a little more complicated when you have to do things like enter as a contestant on a reality … Continue reading
The Weinstein era of Miramax was infamous for many things. They came with big money and bigger balls to film festivals to gobble up acquisitions. They strong-armed Oscar campaigns like few others could. They empowered maverick directors like Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino to do what other studios wouldn’t allow. But for many film geeks, … Continue reading