I wanted to take this opportunity to talk to you about a movie that we have been ignoring on CHUD.com, The Fountain. Regular readers of this site probably have no idea that it’s the new film from Darren Aronofsky, and that it opens next Wednesday. OK, so maybe I have mentioned it once or twice … Continue reading
Don’t you hate it when you wake up like this?
Eva Green has an indie sensibility in a big budget world. At the Casino Royale junket in New York City she wore a very concealing and shapeless black outfit, and a big skull ring, making her very different from fellow new Bond girl Caterino Murino, who showed up in a sexy and low cut dress. … Continue reading
Disney and Pixar sure bang out movies like it’s nothing. It seems like we’re always anticipating another Pixar classic. Unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait until June 29th, 2007 for our next dose of greatness. In the mean time, here’s the official one sheet that they just released for their next epic, Ratatouille. Ratatouille … Continue reading
Though it was a mere rumor a few months ago, it’s now official. Sacha Baron Cohen has signed on to Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd. Cohen fills the role of Signor Adolfo Pirelli, Sweeney’s arch-nemesis, who also happens to be a barber. The picture is set to begin production in London in February. Based on the … Continue reading
Oliver Hirschbiegel was a pretty hot commodity in Hollywood coming off his one-two punch German films Das Experiment and Downfall, and Warner Bros snatched him up for their film The Invasion, an updated version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Produced by Joel Silver, the scifi film stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and I … Continue reading
You thought Peter Jackson’s King Kong couldn’t get any longer? Oh, how wrong you were! I’m starting to think that Jackson won’t rest until he’s made a single film equaling the length of the legendary lost original cut of von Stroheim’s Greed. The new Deluxe Edition DVD of King Kong is three discs, and the … 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
Nic Cage has always been Hollywood’s biggest comic book fan – his stage name comes from Luke Cage, noted anal sex buddy of Marvel Comics superheroine Jessica Jones. He was attached to star in Tim Burton’s Superman movie, a film that would have certainly been more rousing than Bryan Singer’s, as it would have at … Continue reading
In the remaining weeks of 2006, American audiences are going to be treated to a succession of films that are stunning achievements, absolute masterworks. Any year end top ten list that doesn’t have one of these three movies in the top spot will be, to me, highly suspect. To have one of these films come … Continue reading