The Rock’s latest filmic effort arrives on screens today, Gridiron Gang, the true story of Sean Porter, a guy who inspired urban toughs to put away their nines and replace them with footballs and created a successful program to send young people on their way towards happier lives. For some it stuck [one became an … Continue reading
Instead of just bumping the one article for the CHUD Podcast, I’m going to give each installment their own so that we can build this thing up a little better and keep it fresh. Of course fresh isn’t exactly on the menu with these shows due to the meandering craziness of them, but you get … Continue reading
We don’t run a lot of links to other sites when they get photos from films. I don’t find that too interesting, honestly, and when we score exclusives – unless they’re really early – I don’t send the link around to other sites. But I am running this link because it is an excuse to … Continue reading
The first James Ellroy book I read was American Tabloid. I was working at the Wall Street Waldenbooks (which would become a Borders, move to the World Trade Center, get destroyed and then move back to Wall Street. Cyclical!), and really into JFK assassination theories. Like, I “acquired” every book in the store about it. … Continue reading
Technically the new film from Stuart Gordon isn’t a horror movie, but it’s scarier than half the genre films released in the last few years. It’s Edmond, based on the David Mamet play of the same name, a notoriously difficult and confrontational work that examines some of the darkest impulses hiding in all of us. … Continue reading
Story: Nick NunziataStory & Art: Lewis Cox III The Dark Him Message Board Discussion.
USA A.J. Schnack It’s almost exactly an hour into About A Son before the first image of Kurt Cobain hits the screen. A series of still on-stage photos flickers in montage, then fades away. Only at the film’s end does anything like a portrait of the singer fill the frame. The rest of the images … Continue reading
USA, Jeff Garlin You know — or should know — John Waters as the director of some of the dirtiest low-art movies ever made. If Pink Flamingos, Polyester and Female Trouble aren’t in your repertoire, it’s high time to update the Netflix queue. But Waters is also an able speaker; his lectures are more like … Continue reading
Aint it Cool News has one of those unverified scoops they like to run a lot, and this one is about Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer. This scooper claims to have a source in Spectral Motion FX who tells him that the Surfer is “NOT going to be a computer generated or … Continue reading
The next Marvel movie has been announced, and it’s going to be… Sub-Mariner. Yes, one of Marvel’s oldest characters and perennially one of the company’s third stringers, Namor will be coming to screens in all his green Speedo and nothing else glory. And it’s happening soon – Jonathan Mostow, who you may recall as the … Continue reading