Archive · 2005

October 2005

285 posts

300 RECRUITS SOME TROOPS

Dawn of the Dead ’04 director Zach Snyder is getting his giant green screen ready for 300, and now he’s got several humans to stand in front of it. The movie, an adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel, stars Scotsman Gerard Butler as Spartan king… Continue reading →

REVIEW: TWO FOR THE MONEY

There are a lot of people today who don’t get what the big deal is about Al Pacino. I see it on the CHUD message boards all the time, kids who are familiar with the concept that Pacino is one of our great actors but not believing it because they just haven’t… Continue reading →

DAILY GRABOID 10.6.05

I've started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it'll be because you're an astute fan of movies. I'm not going to make it easy and it's going to be from something I either like or find it fun… Continue reading →

SERENITY NOW AND LATER

The DVD for Serenity will probably be hitting shelves at the end of December – the 20th to be precise (same date as the first half of Battlestar Galactica’s second season). That’s most likely not a comment on the film’s success by Universal, but it is at the… Continue reading →

FAVREAU GETS HIS ASS TO MARS

If you showed me Swingers a few years ago and said “See that insecure guy who can’t get over his last girlfriend? Some day he’ll direct a huge effects-driven franchise-starting sci-fi flick based on a classic series of novels,” I probably would’ve responded… Continue reading →

SCARY BIERKO

In a move coldly calculated to get CHUD.com’s own Kevin Matchstick to buy a ticket, Scary Movie 4 will now feature none other than Craig Bierko. The film, which is being made for the brand new Weinstein Co. (I guess that’s the name they’re sticking with?),… Continue reading →

EMMERICH TRASHES THE PAST

He already froze North America, wrecked a bunch of Manhattan with a legendary radioactive lizard (and said lizard), and exploded a whole bunch of global landmarks with flying saucers. Now Roland Emmerich is venturing into the past for more stuff to destroy.… Continue reading →