The Magazine: Giant The Pitch: A newcomer in the world of magazines geared towards men and their entertainment. Sort of like an American HOT DOG. Of all the US books out there, this is the one most in tune with CHUD.com’s mentality.The Cost: $3.99The Month: Feb/MarchThe Publisher: SameCover Story: Ethan Hawke Main Interview: Ethan Hawke … Continue reading
The remake of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 opens with a jittery, wired undercover sting gone wrong. Ethan Hawke, all too convincing as a junkie, is leading two cops in an effort to take out some Serbian mobsters, but it all goes to hell, as your average pre-credits sequence sting will do, and Hawke … Continue reading
The Magazine: EW #802 The Pitch: America’s weekly (except for when they do pointless double issues) entertainment magazine. Sometimes totally fun and loaded with goodness and others absolutely flimsy and gosspiy, it’s one of those must read guilty pleasures we look forward to.The Cost: $3.50The Month: JanuaryThe Publisher: WBCover Story: 200 Forecast Main Interview: N/A … Continue reading
The Magazine: EMPIRE #188 The Pitch: The biggest and best movie magazine in the world. Made in the UK. Huge. That’s all you need to know.The Cost: $8.99The Month: FebruaryThe Publisher: SameCover Story: Ocean’s Twelve Main Interview: Cast of Ocean’s Twelve PRO: Tons and tons of interviews, most of them quite solid. The Ocean’s Twelve … Continue reading
The Magazine: EMPIRE #187 The Pitch: The biggest and nest movie magazine in the world. Made in the UK. Huge. That’s all you need to know.The Cost: $8.99The Month: JanuaryThe Publisher: SameCover Story: Alexander Main Interview: Jack Black PRO: They give out a lot of four star ratings to deserving films. Their coverage for movies, … Continue reading
As the Harry Potter films get farther into the book series, the filmmakers are presented with the challenge of condensing hundreds upon hundreds of pages into a two hour movie. Daniel Handler’s Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events presents the opposite problem – clocking in at a few dozen pages per volume, the filmmakers … Continue reading
Nick’s review. Following up a film that seems to be aging slowly into a bona fide classic, a film that may well be considered your masterpiece, must be daunting at best. So how do you do it? If you’re Wes Anderson it seems that you make an action movie. A Wes Anderson action movie, that … Continue reading
A sloppy mix of legend and half researched fact, yet another teaming between Nic Cage and Jerry Bruckheimer, a movie full of slow motion and blaring “excitement” music, National Treasure is exactly the sort of film I hate. But somehow, instead of finding myself gnawing at my ankle as the movie went on I was … Continue reading
Somewhere Jonathan Frakes weeps. It seems a foregone conclusion that Team America: World Police, a puppet movie parody of Jerry Bruckheimer action films inspired by Thunderbirds, will make more money on its opening day than his live action big screen adaptation of that same show. The second film from South Park creators Trey Parker and … Continue reading
It’s been so long since David O. Russell’s Three Kings elevated the quirky indie director into a whole new stratosphere of brilliant filmmaking that I was beginning to despair that he would ever release another movie, and that if he did it would be some sort of awful self-indulgent wanking. Thankfully he finally released another … Continue reading