What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
In the wake of our ongoing ‘Essential’ list, we’re going to also rerun the popular and lost to the annals of the web CHUD’s 100 BEST KILLS list, half of which originally aired in the sadly defunct MOVIE INSIDER magazine with the rest appearing on this here site. As the site prepares for a ground-up … Continue reading
After basking in the glow of The Queen‘s success, two-time best director nominee Stephen Frears is in talks to move on to his next filmic project, The Burial.Based on a New Yorker piece written by A Civil Action author Jonathan Harr (which was subsequently made into cinematic Lunesta), the Rain Maker story focuses on how … Continue reading
Expanding on his big fat acting portfolio, Steve Buscemi has been sharpening the screenplay/directorial skills on the side. His latest, Interview, just had U.S. rights picked up by Sony Classics. Interview debuted at Sundance this year and is based on the 2003 Dutch film titled, well, Interview, where a journalist begrudgingly gets an assignment to … Continue reading
About a year ago I had the chance to see a movie that just blew me away – Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. I was very impressed with the film on every level, but especially with the way that it managed to tweak the slasher film genre while actually being a complete … Continue reading
Over the last couple of days, web pundits have been all atwitter about the growing divide between critics and audiences. This makes me think that web pundits and goldfish must share some essential brain matter, since these people are treating this like it’s a new phenomenon and not something gets discussed to death every year … Continue reading
Louis CK almost hit. He had a show on HBO, Lucky Louie, that was really growing, getting better every single episode*… until the network cancelled it unceremoniously. CK has been one of those guys working hard in comedy who should be better known and whose work should be better appreciated (fuck all y’all Pootie Tang … Continue reading
Earlier this week, Devin wrote about Gerard Butler stepping into the shoes of Snake Plisskin, to which the general reply was: OK, not the worst thing ever…who’s directing? We still don’t have a director for Ken Nolan’s script, but we do know that the film has landed at New Line. Several studios stuck hands out … Continue reading