Why the hell did Kevin Smith make Clerks II? The answer has to be one of those commerce instead of art things – the film goes nowhere beyond the first one, and the characters end up at a place only slightly different from where they ended up in the first one. In fact, much of … Continue reading
Ghostbusters. Meatballs. Twins. Dave. Just a few of Ivan Reitman’s contributions as a director, and that’s not even including Six Days, Seven Nights [one of Nick’s guilty pleasures]. He also produced Old School, Private Parts, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone and Jason Reitman! Not a bad mix, all told. The man has been at … Continue reading
I had a girlfriend who took 200 dollars in 20s out of my wallet and ripped them up before tossing them out of the window of a moving car. If she had superpowers I don’t doubt that she would have killed me. For me Ivan Reitman’s My Super Ex-Girlfriend isn’t a romantic comedy – it’s … Continue reading
I like to believe regular CHUD readers are reasonably smart — astute enough to have found our site, and masochistic enough to keep returning. We’ve been running the Daily Graboid for nearly a year now to test your movie knowledge, but how about straining that noggin? The CHUD Thinker is a puzzle, rebus, pictogram, visual … Continue reading
First of all, let me just say that I’m back. Full on. I’ll do news. I’ll do reviews. I’ll do Leaks and Graboids and whatever seems apt. I’m probably not going to do many interviews because I kinda suck at them though it looks like I might have a chance to chat with Oliver Stone, … Continue reading
***WARNING***Good day. Since so much of our site’s content is lost in other designs, hampered by ad code messing with the pages, or surrounded by gas and low on evil, I’m going to start reprinting them for new eyes. You’ll see classic Smilin’ Jack Ruby, stuff from me when I was relevant, early Devin, and … 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
Dave Davis and I are in Las Vegas right now, visiting the set of Zak Penn’s improv poker comedy, The Grand. It was 90 degrees at 7:30 this morning, but we haven’t been out of the hotel once – we’ve been watching Zak and his cast, which includes Werner Herzog, David Cross, Woody Harrelson, Cheryl … Continue reading
Now that Will Eisner’s in a coffin he’s able to spin in it. Nah, that’s unfair. The news coming down the pike that Frank Miller is stepping in to direct a feature film of Eisner’s seminal comic The Spirit could easily be construed as a case of a creator standing on the shoulders of giants, … Continue reading
It’s not that often that you go to the movies and feel the magic of special effects. Most films have CGI effects that feel completely CGI – not so with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. People have no idea that Davey Jones doesn’t have a bit of make-up on him – Bill Nighy … Continue reading