As a rabid fan of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced, I can’t get enough of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. So when I heard that Nick’s TV "reality" show Danger 50,000 Volts was coming to American DVD, I was excited. The DVD hits stores in the US on Tuesday (order it from CHUD.com … Continue reading
As a rabid fan of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced, I can’t get enough of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. So when I heard that Nick’s TV "reality" show Danger 50,000 Volts was coming to American DVD, I was excited. The DVD hits stores in the US on Tuesday (order it from CHUD.com … Continue reading
REVIEWED THIS WEEK:– House of M #1 & 2– Adventures of Superman #640 & 641– Dream Police #1– Catwoman #44– Deadworld #1– Captain America #7– Neverwhere #1– Robin #139 At Two Issues Deep, “House of M” is Full of Sound and Fury By Russell Paulette The big event comic seems a blessing and a curse—the … Continue reading
After Dakota Fanning left our roundtable, one of the other reporters turned to me and said, "That was surreal." Talking to Fanning can be surreal indeed. She’s a tiny, adorable little girl with the wise eyes of an old woman. She’ll giggle and talk about horses and dolls, but she’ll also stop on a dime … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Batman Begins $26,700,000 $121,600,000 2 2 Bewitched $20,200,000 $20,200,000 1 3 Mr. and Mrs. Smith $16,700,000 $125,400,000 3 4 Herbie: Fully Loaded $12,700,000 $17,800,000 1 5 Land of the Dead $10,200,000 $10,200,000 1 6 Madagascar $7,300,000 $160,000,000 5 7 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the … Continue reading
Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company has been frantically whipping the horses on the remake wagon since their first major financial successes (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror), and The Hitcher is next on the money trail. The original 1986 flick, which made C. Thomas Howell the household name it is today, revolved around a man … Continue reading
A quick note. I’d love to start running RON pin-ups from reader/artists, so if you have a character you like, send me a JPG no wider than 400 pixels at nick@chud.com. We’ll run them. To help fill in the blanks a little, we’re going to be running profiles right from the files of Lt. Mike … Continue reading
This afternoon I had the pleasure of talking with Nick Frost, star of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, about his new DVD Danger 50,000 Volts, which hits stores in the US on Tuesday (order it from CHUD.com here). It’s a funny and interesting program where Frost shows you how to get out of various life-threatening scenarios, … Continue reading
Spike Lee’s next film, The Inside Man, not only has a title ripe for porn but also a cast ripe for porn – Great Actor Porn. Previously Denzel Washington, Jodi Foster and Willem Dafoe have been announced for this film about a cop vs a clever bank robber stuck in a hostage situation. Now more actors … Continue reading
We normally don’t link to stuff like this, but Hustle & Flow kicked my ass when I saw it a couple of weeks back and I want to try to get it into the CHUD reader consciousness. It’s the story of a small time pimp and weed dealer who takes one last shot at redemption … Continue reading