This is the introduction to the Garry Shandling interview. It’s the introductory part of the interview. It’s the part where I tell you who Garry Shandling is. This is the second part of the introduction to the Garry Shandling interview. This is where I tell you he plays Verne in Over the Hedge, opening this … Continue reading
I don’t know how to talk about movies. How to say smart things about them, break them down into their cinematic parts, boost their beauty and power with mere words on a page. I admire the writers that can. But I can’t intellectualize films. I feel them in my guts and a great movie may … Continue reading
Feeling like staying indoors tonight? If so, take a peek at G4TV’s Attack of the Show! to see myself, Film Threat’s Chris Gore, and one of Premiere Magazine’s luminaries discussing this year’s crop of summer movies. Will it be biting and incisive? I have no clue. All I know is that you’ll probably get some … Continue reading
Hey, I hope you guys are enjoying the new Golden Age. I wasn’t really convinced that we were living in great times for cinema until I saw the trailer for Richard Linklater’s next film, Fast Food Nation. It’s obvious that we’ve arrived at a point where incredibly talented filmmakers are getting money to make ballsy … Continue reading
When I talked to Mick Garris about his episode of the Showtime Masters of Horror show, and about the series in general, he mentioned some directors they had wanted to get on board, but who just weren’t available. “Guillermo [del Toro] was going to do one but he can’t because they’re constantly throwing giant studio … Continue reading
The dude who wrote the superhero drama Tonight, He Comes must be tearing his hair out in huge gruesome chunks, scalp flaps and all. For years the script kicked around various studios and (transcending its terrible title) gained a reputation for being one of the best unproduced screenplays… a status it still retains. The Sony … 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
In the opening scene of The Da Vinci Code, an old man is gutshot by Paul Bettany, who has been covered in pancake makeup. The film then cuts to a lecture delivered by Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of “religious symbology,” who is in France presenting what appears to be a version … Continue reading
Paris , 2010. An isolation wall surrounds the ghetto cities. Without rules or laws, gangs reign here as absolute masters, and he who does not die first wins a reprieve, while awaiting his turn. Damien is a member of the elite police task force. Special intervention unit officer and expert in martial arts, he is … Continue reading
Michael Cuesta’s first feature, L.I.E., was one of the first films I ever reviewed for CHUD. That review seems to have become lost in the ether, which just goes to show you how long it’s been between films for Cuesta. His latest is 12 and Holding, and it again is about young people in the … Continue reading