In two weeks United 93, the first narrative feature film to deal directly with the events of 9/11, will open the Tribeca Film Festival. It’s really fitting – Tribeca began as an answer to the devastation the terrorist attacks had visited upon the economy of downtown Manhattan (we’ll argue about where Tribeca is exactly later. … Continue reading
I think Hard Candy is a film perhaps best seen cold – without any knowledge of the storyline whatsoever. If you don’t know anything about the film, stop reading after this paragraph – the rest of this positive review contains the sort of minor spoilers that tell you what a movie is about and that … Continue reading
Dear CHUD reader, I have failed you. I didn’t ask Gretchen Mol about her pubes. You see, in her new movie, The Notorious Bettie Page, Mol has some full frontal action, and her ladybits are done up in the style of the film’s time period – thick and fuzzy. And black. I have often found … Continue reading
Brian K Vaughan is one of the best comic book writers today – his three main titles, Y The Last Man, Ex-Machina and Runaways are all among my very favorite books on the market (Y and Ex-Machina often jostle for the top spot in my list). The third trade paperback volume of Ex-Machina, Fact vs … Continue reading
I got quite a few emails from folks who missed yesterday’s live appearance on G4’s Attack of the Show! and are dying to see the concept art we ran from the piles of MEG pre-viz stuff. There it is above. Now tell me you wouldn’t want to see THAT on the big screen. In a … Continue reading
Above is an exclusive new character image from Pixar’s next film, Cars. Hell, we’re so special it’s two new exclusive character images – on the left we have Ramone, voiced by Cheech Marin, and on the right is Fillmore, played by George Carlin. I’m pretty excited about Cars, mainly because – and I know this … Continue reading
Above is an exclusive new character image from Pixar’s next film, Cars. Hell, we’re so special it’s two new exclusive character images – on the left we have Ramone, voiced by Cheech Marin, and on the right is Fillmore, played by George Carlin.I’m pretty excited about Cars, mainly because – and I know this is … 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
Hard Candy lives and dies on the performances of its two leads. Writer Brian Nelson has crafted a fantastic, literate script, and director David Slade (read my interview here) has vision to spare, but when your movie is about two people in a house, it’s really all about the performances. Ellen Page is fantastic as … Continue reading
The Longest Yard director Peter Segal, whose Sandleriffic career also includes 50 First Dates and Anger Management has been handed the unenviable task of trying to make Shazam into an interesting modern motion picture for New Line. The story involves dorky teenager Billy Batson, who meets an ancient wizard/pedophile and is granted the superpowers and … Continue reading