A good critic should react to a movie, not to the movie’s poster or trailer or Fox’s seeming desire to burn the freshness out of the movie months before it’s even released. It’s that last one that has given me some trouble with Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. … Continue reading
I want to make Roy Frumkes the patron saint of CHUD.com; I don’t think there’s anyone in the film world whose sensibility is more in line with ours. Roy wrote and produced the splattery classic Street Trash, about bums that drink a tainted wine that causes them to melt and explode – a movie that … Continue reading
I like Tom Cruise. I’m not an apologist, but I can differentiate between what happens offscreen and on and I still believe he’s one of the greatest movie stars of all time and a rather amazing actor above and beyond that. Plus, we’re both short and share a birthday, so there’s that. That said, I … Continue reading
One of the most surprising things about 50 Cent’s movie Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was how utterly terribly Fiddy was as an actor. Sometimes I would stare at the screen in wonder and amazement at how bad he was – it was like Fiddy was a one dimensional being let loose in a three … Continue reading
After just one week of filming, the remake of Revenge of the Nerds has shut down. No, it’s not because everyone involved came to their senses; rather, the movie’s biggest location – Emory College in Atlanta – got the jitters over the film’s raunchy content and pulled out of their deal with Fox Atomic. The … Continue reading
The Hughes Brothers have been in director jail* since 2002’s From Hell was so fucking terrible. Just completely fucking awful. But now they’re coming back, and it’s with a project that a number of directors have been eyeing – a big screen version of the David Carradine TV show Kung Fu. The script is being … Continue reading
Inside Man was Spike Lee’s most successful film, earning 180+ million dollars worldwide. Watching the DVD recently I was still amazed that Spike was able to make a pretty mainstream thriller that still feels very much like a Spike Lee movie – this is a text book example of how a director can apply his … Continue reading
Probably a bad idea to bring Tandy back for Driving Another Miss Daisy. Name: Tequila Worm (unofficial) AKA: Vomit Creature, Reverand Barf, Puke Floorcrawler, On a Scale of One to Ten I’m Regurgiteight, Midget in a Mansuit, The Cabo Wobble, Spew Sutcliffe, Jessica Bile.Appearances: Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) – BUY IT FROM CHUD … Continue reading
The Last Waltz is the greatest concert film ever made. Period. Someone out there is going to claim that U2 had the greatest, or one of the films about the festivals in the 60s – Newport or Woodstock or Altamont – but the truth is that The Last Waltz is a great concert film because … Continue reading
Last week I revealed to a heart-broken world that Gael Garcia Bernal would not be playing Paz, the super-assassin sent to kill Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum. Paul Greengrass wasn’t sitting still, though – he leapt into casting action and found himself a new bad guy, Edgar Ramirez. Some of you – very few … Continue reading