My favorite part of this new experience for me, if not for being able to listen to the wondrous creative people you’re about to read, was when a fellow journalist called me an asshole. I suppose I deserved it, using my NYC elevator fleeing skills out here in more laid-back L.A., but still, I thought … 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
The Graboid and Chud Thinker features have inspired me. Here is a puzzle from the mind of Blofeld – also known as Chud’s shortz. This is a standard “Cryptogram” puzzle. I have taken a quote from a beloved movie and anagrammed the letters into the answers of the 8 clues. If you answer a clue, … Continue reading
Forgive me if this is old news but since Devin and Dave are off at Comic Con and a Vegas set visit, I’m going to carry the news torch. Then again, it may be like a glass of nice cool iced tea since I’m neither a Communist or a pedophile… Eric Bana has pleased the … Continue reading
My "review" of Pan’s Labyrinth will arrive later this week and believe me it’s been one of the tougher reviews to write. It’s hard to not to just fellate Guillermo in text, something you’ll realize when you see it. This is the first San Diego Comic Con I’ll not be going to since the late … Continue reading
I approach M Night Shymalan’s films with a modified version of the auteur theory – I don’t think that he’s a great director, but he’s an idiosyncratic one, and as a result every movie he makes, no matter how bad, is interesting to examine. And he’s made some bad ones. I would rank Unbreakable among … 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
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
You don’t have to wait until the new season of Battlestar Galactica starts up for some sharp science-fiction — the new Sci-Fi Channel series Eureka starts on July 18th. The show’s official synopsis: Nestled in the Pacific Northwest, Eureka is a small town with big secrets. Shrouded in secrecy, the picturesque hamlet is actually a … Continue reading
Iron West: The Return of Doug TenNapel By Mark Wheaton “So…I’m attacked by mechanical outlaws, found by Sasquatch, then healed by a Mi-Wuk Shaman…I can understand that, but why are we weaving baskets?’ What an utterly fantastic week for comics: what looks like a good new “Ghost Rider” run (as opposed to last year’s muddled … Continue reading