Archive · 2006

April 2006

212 posts

DVD REVIEW: AEON FLUX

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Paramount Home VideoMSRP: $29.95RATED: PG-13RUNNING TIME: 92 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: • Commentary by: Charlize Theron and producer Gale Anne Hurd• Commentary by co-screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi• Creating a… Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: STATES OF CONTROL

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Pathfinder Home EntertainmentMSRP: $14.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 84 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: • Short film, On Some Consequences of a Passage by Guy Debord by director Zachary Winestine• Trailer• Photo Gallery• Cast bios•… Continue reading

A MESS OF MARVEL MOVIES

If this article were written in the mid-1990s, it would have a holo-foil die-cut cover and a variant by Stephen Platt. But this is 2006 and there's far more profit to be made in feature films, so here's sort of a "state of the union" regarding Marvel's slate.… Continue reading

REVIEW: UNITED 93

Sitting down before United 93, I expected a difficult experience. I was prepared for a film that would play to my assumptions about the hijacking and its perpetrators. I worried that it would be crass. And the film is sometimes extremely difficult to watch;… Continue reading

THE MAN BEHIND IRON MAN

Marvel’s shiniest hero (well, the one who doesn’t surf) has a new director. Jon Favreau will begin construction on the red and gold armor for Marvel’s Iron Man movie. Paramount is firing up the boot jets and making the project a priority. Favreau and writers… Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 4.28.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid… Continue reading

THE CHEWER COLUMN #45

Welcome back, everyone. This edition of The Chewer Column comes courtesy of a great group of intelligent and insightful CHUD readers who have agreed to participate in a roundtable discussion dealing directly with the events of 9/11, its place in modern film,… Continue reading

CONTEST: PIRELLI'S THE CALL

Somehow it seems like cars and excellent internet short films go hand in hand. First it was BMW with their The Hire, and now it’s Pirelli Tires. And Pirelli isn’t screwing around – their first internet short, The Call, stars John Malkovich as the Vatican’s… Continue reading