Through the month of June The Indpendent Film Channel is running Pulp Indies – 30 days of crimes, sex, drugs and thugs! Sounds like an average month at Chez Faraci. Anyway, each Friday the channel will have a different "pulp indie" movie, and they’re all good ones. Here’s the list: June 3 – Reservoir Dogs … Continue reading
I have met many people who lament that the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys already covered the first days of skateboarding, so why do we now need a narrative feature version? Besides the fact that almost no one sees documentaries, there’s an important reason for the existence of the new film Lords of Dogtown – it’s … Continue reading
You may see posters and ads for Rock School and think to yourself, "Wait, I’ve seen that movie." Wrong. Rock School is a fantastic and funny documentary about The Paul Green School of Rock Music, a school that teaches kids from 8-18 how to play rock music – and real rock, like Led Zeppelin and … Continue reading
You know how your parents would give you a little slack to see how you used it, finally yanking you back doubly hard when you screwed the pooch (not literally, in my case it was just fellatio)? You know, you’d show an interest in something and they’d se if you followed through with it or … Continue reading
I’ve been working on notes for my review of Howl’s Moving Castle, the new film from Hayao Miyazaki (who brought us Spirited Away) and one of the things I’ve been thinking about is "How many masterpieces does one guy get in a lifetime?" Because Howl’s is another one – a beautiful, sweet, funny and exciting … Continue reading
All images copyright Nick Nunziata & Lewis Cox III. Do not reprint without permission. * Note: I’m going to include the previous strip above the current one as to preserve some semblance of continuity in case you’d missed or forgotten the last strip. The CHUD.com Superstore has just opened up and there are TONS of … Continue reading
Teen cutie Camilla Belle has signed on to star in the remake of When a Stranger Calls, a horror film about the dangers of pre-Caller ID life. The original 70s semi-classic starred Carol Kane as a baby sitter who gets threatening phone calls – that are coming from inside the house! Belle will be taking … Continue reading
Woody Allen’s latest movie, Match Point, premiered at Cannes to fairly enthusiastic reviews, reminding us that the fellow may not have lost it after all. Shot in England because it’s cheaper and he can get foreign financing (Europeans see his movies while you philistines go for the seventh viewing of Revenge of the Sith. How … Continue reading
School’s out for the summer, but The Prognosticator is back for June. Star Wars kick started the blockbuster season, and now this month brings us the big guns hoping to dethrone it from the top of the heap. Can Bruce Wayne defeat Darth Vader? Will the winning War be of the Worlds or in the … Continue reading
(From the Vampire Cheats Death stories) This cough is getting worse and my head feels like it’ll explode with the next fit, like someone could take the tip of a pin and pop it open with the slightest prick. There’s that light but leaden feeling in my arms and legs, swimming in gauze almost, and … Continue reading