Few were surprised or upset when Katie Holmes, considered by many to be the weakest link in Christopher Nolan’s Batman revival, dropped out of the sequel a while back. And with other, juicier casting news to think about, the subject of Holmes’ replacement hasn’t been foremost in the rumor mill. Even so, Maggie Gyllenhaal has … Continue reading
“From the director of Nutty Professor II and the Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard.” I don’t care what genre of movie we’re talking about, that ain’t a good starting point. And yet, that’s exactly where New Line Cinema decided around this time last year they wanted to kick off their movie version of … Continue reading
As many of you know, I’m a weird guy. Not weird in the "I like to bend a kid over" way but in a "man, he surprised me that he owns all the books in the Manitou series" or a "I didn’t expect a guy who runs a geek website to be so into playing … Continue reading
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
Frosty from Collider dropped me an email saying that he had just come from an event for Surf’s Up, the latest fucking penguin movie, where Shia LaBeouf denied being in Indiana Jones IV. “It’s turned into this insane thing, and it’s fun to watch everybody talk about it, but I don’t have a deal or … Continue reading
I really wish Paul Bartel wasn’t dead. I have this thought often. These days it’s usually just one beard having empathy for another. But right now it’s because based on looks alone, Bartel would be perfect* to play Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski in a film likely to be directed by the Hughes Brothers. Los … Continue reading
Udated at the bottom! Alert reader Tony Cigarette Burns sends this message: Devin,Thanks to the powers of YouTube, some extended trailer of 300 has made its way onto the net:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UapGEIMQtkwNow I know what you’re saying, who cares, right? Scroll to 1:52 into the trailer for this beauty: Well that’s certainly Rorschach from Watchmen, Zack Snyder’s … Continue reading
Writing for CHUD these last few years has made me less actively cynical – ‘You soulless corporate bastards!’ – and more passively cynical – ‘It’s a business, what do you expect?’ – but every now and again something so egregiously awful comes down the pike that I find myself getting the old dander up. Such … Continue reading
When I’m Clint Eastwood’s age, I hope I’m dead. If I’m not dead I hope I’m spending a lot of time chilling out; I can respect Eastwood’s drive to keep on making movies even as the very bones in his body slowly disintegrate with age, but I can’t understand it. Eastwood’s still not done with … Continue reading
The more cineastes get to know Bong Joon-Ho and Park Chan-Wook, the more likely it is they’ll be known as the Spielberg and Lucas of Korea. They’ve already redefined Korean cinema, and made huge blockbusters that have outgrossed each other (Oldboy was a huge hit, but The Host‘s gross was so high that 25% of … Continue reading