I know I’ve seen the original film version of One Missed Call, directed in 2003 by Takashi Miike. But I don’t remember much of it and won’t even try to dig up my DVD copy to compare it to the American remake, directed with corporate video elan by French helmer Eric Valette. Both feature cell … Continue reading
BUY IT FROM AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: St. Martin’s MinotaurMSRP: $23.95PAGES: 336AUTHOR WEBSITE: CLICK HERE Chelsea Cain’s serial killer thriller Heartsick has hit big. It’s everywhere, pimped to the fullest extreme at every major bookstore, ranked high on Amazon and making its best of ’07 List, and it has Youtube videos as part of its promotion. … Continue reading
As craft, Atonement is astonishing. There is no denying that Joe Wright is one of the most visionary and gifted directors working today. His name would certainly be tripping off the tongue of CHUD readers as often as that other, equally talented, Wright if his chosen genre to date wasn’t romance films. And he has … Continue reading
It feels good to like a Tim Burton movie again. I’ve spent most of the last decade on the outside of Burton’s films, unable to get past his empty stylistic tics and his obsession with fathers, growing more and more convinced that the guy had turned into nothing so much as an imitation of himself, … Continue reading
There’s an implied standard when reviewing a film that you should only review what’s on the screen. Not what’s in your head, not what could have been, not the cut that might end up on DVD. It’s a worthy ideal, if futile and, to some extent, counter-productive. One beauty of film is what it suggests, … Continue reading
The Golden Compass is an extraordinary movie for one bad reason: it manages to be both rushed and boring at the same time. The film blows forward at a breakneck pace but never thinks to make anything happening on screen in the least bit interesting. By the end of the movie you feel like you’ve … Continue reading
Frank Darabont’s The Mist is far from a flawless work: its first act relies on contrived conflict to set its ideologically (and theologically) diverse characters against each other; the basic conventions of the narrative will be overly familiar to anyone who’s seen "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"; and, on a strictly superficial level, … Continue reading
Remember way back when there was a rumor about Frank Darabont possibly being involed in a television miniseries remake/continuation of The Thing? I don’t think I imagined that. Well, regardless of all of that Frank Darabont has his The Thing. It’s called The Mist. In fact when I look back on this harrowing and unforgettable … Continue reading