Archive · 2004
32 posts
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… Continue reading
Hell yes. If anyone needed to be told that Billy Crystal was about four years past his Oscar hosting prime, then I'd like to sell them my comic collection for Overstreet value times two. The Academy Awards have recently been hampered by one overriding force… Continue reading
DON’T YOU WORRY ABOUT BLANK, LET ME WORRY ABOUT BLANK With the recent release of Futurama: Volume 4, I have come to side with those who say that the entire run of Futurama is better than The Simpsons, even if you compare great run of the latter with the full… Continue reading
We ran a cool contest recently for the upcoming Drawn Together cartoon on Comedy Central. We had three prizes: Third was Reno 911 Season 1 DVD, Second was Chapelle's Show Season 1 and the awesome grand prize was South Park Seasons 1 through 4. The lucky… Continue reading
Rumormongering about the upcoming Superman movie is now the top pastime of 1 out of 8 American adults. In fact, there is a magazine starting up that will cater specifically to this group of enthusiasts, Krypton Krap, which will have advice on things like… Continue reading
Festival Fury: The 2004 Toronto International Film Festival Sometimes, technology blows. HDTV, smart phones and talking toasters are well and good, but when something fails for no appreciable reason, angry hijinks ensue. About a month ago, I spent nine days… Continue reading
I spent quite a few years in Boston, and in the mid ‘90s Brad Anderson kept cropping up as the name to watch, largely because of films like Next Stop Wonderland. But that sort of romantic escapism, grim as it sometimes was, didn’t do much to prepare anyone… Continue reading
Director Richard Loncraine obviously liked working with his pasty Wimbledon star Paul Bettany, as he’s following the striking British thesp to his next project and taking over the vacated chair on the Harrison Ford action-thriller The Wrong Element. Which I… Continue reading
Now that director Antoine Fuqua is apparently doing a little time in Director Jail to serve penance for King Arthur, his next project American Gangster (aka Tru Blu, aka The Return of Superfly) has completely crumbled. Fuqua recently dropped out of the… Continue reading
Big news, Slap Maxwell and Buffalo Bill fans – Dabney Coleman has been offered a role in the new film from action maven Tony Scott, Domino, which for the last time has fuck all to do with X-Force. It's not know whether or not The Dabs will be taking the role,… Continue reading
It's no secret that we here at CHUD are fans of David Benioff, the writer of The 25th Hour. In fact, when I did the junket for Troy I got to meet Brad Pitt and Sir Peter O'Toole, but Benioff was the one who had me with butterflies in my stomach. At that… Continue reading
