Sitting down before United 93, I expected a difficult experience. I was prepared for a film that would play to my assumptions about the hijacking and its perpetrators. I worried that it would be crass. And the film is sometimes extremely difficult to watch; it would probably be worthless otherwise. But crass and obvious it’s … Continue reading
Marvel’s shiniest hero (well, the one who doesn’t surf) has a new director. Jon Favreau will begin construction on the red and gold armor for Marvel’s Iron Man movie. Paramount is firing up the boot jets and making the project a priority. Favreau and writers Arthur Marcum and Matt Hollaway are discarding previous drafts by … 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
Paul Greengrass was the last person I spoke to on the very long United 93 press day, and I guess that’s fitting. It’s been a long journey, coming from Watchmen to what is turning out to be the most critically acclaimed film of 2006 (and an Oscar frontrunner? It’s going to be interesting to watch … Continue reading
Paul Greengrass was the last person I spoke to on the very long United 93 press day, and I guess that’s fitting. It’s been a long journey, coming from Watchmen to what is turning out to be the most critically acclaimed film of 2006 (and an Oscar frontrunner? It’s going to be interesting to watch … Continue reading
Welcome back, everyone. This edition of The Chewer Column comes courtesy of a great group of intelligent and insightful CHUD readers who have agreed to participate in a roundtable discussion dealing directly with the events of 9/11, its place in modern film, and most specifically, the arguments for and against the upcoming United 93. So … Continue reading
Somehow it seems like cars and excellent internet short films go hand in hand. First it was BMW with their The Hire, and now it’s Pirelli Tires. And Pirelli isn’t screwing around – their first internet short, The Call, stars John Malkovich as the Vatican’s most powerful exorcist and Naomi Campbell as a dangerous and … Continue reading
I’m sorry about making Kristin Chenoweth cry. It wasn’t on purpose, I swear. I mean, I knew that asking her about John Spencer, her recently deceased co-star on The West Wing, might be emotional, but I didn’t expect the choking back of tears. Sorry! She’s so bubbly otherwise, too. Chenoweth is a tiny woman with … Continue reading
Hello? The American remake of the hit Japanese cell phone spooker One Missed Call has connected with a director, French filmmaker Eric Valette. A French guy doing an American remake of a Japanese movie. Dizzying. The original flick was a fairly by-the-digits terror tale (at least by the standards of its ordinarily psychotic director Takashi … Continue reading
This past Christmas, someone gave me a copy of Daniel Wilson’s book “How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion”. I thought it was a reasonably amusing faux guide to recognizing and neutralizing cybernetic threats (as well as a practical intro to basic real-world robotics), and then I shoved … Continue reading