I feel like the professor who begins his semester by showing up late to class reeking of whiskey, but inauspicious debuts are my specialty, and those were always the best classes anyway… Hello, I’m Andre Dellamorte, and I’m doing to a twice weekly now for CHUD. There’s going to be one on Thursday/Friday, and another … Continue reading
So it’s been a while since we’ve heard rumblings on a Jurassic Park IV. Well check your cup, because the water’s rippling again. The movie that time forget then remembered then forgot and remembered is being teased once more thanks to a recent interview with Laura Dern (who’s been rumored to return in the fourth … Continue reading
For the next eight days until Friday, April 13th, I’ll be watching and reviewing the movies in the Friday the 13th franchise from the very first through Jason X (I’m up in the air about including Freddy vs Jason). I’ll be counting kills, observing the bad behavior that gets teenagers killed at Camp Crystal Lake, … Continue reading
The director’s cut DVD is often bullshit: a couple of extra scenes shoehorned in to a film that was perfectly fine, a way to sell a couple of extra discs. Every now and again a director’s cut emerges that is the real deal, though, a complete reworking of the original film. And sometimes those director’s … Continue reading
There’s a few folks out there who couldn’t give a dump or four about the Grindhouse revival that opens wide today. It’s been perceived as a roadblock to Rodriguez’ true calling of making Frank Miller movies revolving around a sinful metropolis. To that whinery it must be said, keep your pants on. Sin City 2 … Continue reading
My grandmother was always quick to remind me, "If you ain’t got nothin’ nice to say, don’t fucking say it, and, for the last time, turn off that goddamn hose!" She also blamed the Jews for her chronic arthritis, and once mailed President Reagan what she thought to be severed head of the Yeti, but … Continue reading
Freddy Rodriguez was pretty tired. The sound of his voice on the phone revealed that much, but what was really telling was the way he would break into yawns. I was only given a few short minutes to talk to the star of Robert Rodriguez’ half of Grindhouse, Planet Terror, and the circumstances weren’t ideal, … Continue reading
I’ll never forget a brief exchange I had with Peter Bogdanovich in 1997 at a New York City Barnes & Noble book signing for the updated This is Orson Welles (a must-own tome for anyone who claims to love films, even though Welles wasn’t always the most reliable narrator of his own history). During the … Continue reading
We’ve always known that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodgriguez love trashy old b-movies at least as much as chicks and music. They sketched out their own a decade ago in From Dusk Till Dawn, and now they’ve finally gone full bore. The three-hour blast called Grindhouse exhumes, re-examines and reinvents the film’s namesake style. In … Continue reading
I get the feeling that the tale of the making, unmaking and remaking of Southland Tales will be far, far more interesting than the actual movie itself. That tale has a new chapter today, as Richard Kelly has announced that Sony has opened up their wallets to give him some FX he’s been clamoring for. … Continue reading