Archive · 2006
212 posts
It has been 17 years since the cute Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade hit screens. Digest that for a while. If that doesn't make you feel old, realize that I was a senior in high school working at the movie theater showing the film and wonder if I can even… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: WarnerMSRP: $19.98RATED: Not RatedRUNNING TIME: 90 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Goose egg. The Pitch “Who’s up for another five-year-novel-for-television? Anyone? Hello?” The Humans Dylan Neal, Alex Zahara, Myriam Sirois,… Continue reading
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
No film has divided me in recent memory like Snakes on a Plane. We here at CHUD were early adopters of the phenomenon, and it’s been sad seeing the thing run into the ground the way it has been in the last few months. There’s something primal and beautiful… Continue reading
Last year we heard that Ron Howard was going to tackle the story of Cortez and the conquest of the Aztecs in The Serpent and the Eagle, to be written by Brian Helgeland. I don’t know if that’s still happening, but if it is, we have a Dueling Cortez Movie Race… Continue reading
BUY IT FROM AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: TartanMSRP: $28.99RATING: RRUNNING TIME: 110 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:– Commentary– Featurettes THE PITCH “A Vietnam War ‘guys-on-a-mission’ ghost story!” THE HUMANS Woo-seong Kam, Byung-ho Son, Tae-kyung Oh, Won-sang Park,… Continue reading
Before it even officially made it over here, cruelty master Park Chan-Wook's Lady Vengeance (formerly Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) still made the Best of 2005 lists of Devin (HERE), Russ (HERE) and myself (HERE), because we're the wily sorts, and prone to… Continue reading
Poor Baz Luhrmann can’t catch a break these days. He was competing with Oliver Stone to get an Alexander the Great project off the ground, and when Stone’s stunk, it sank Baz’s take on the subject. That was a number of years just wasted for the director. Now… Continue reading
This may not be news to you, but it was news to me. Then again, I just write the TV news here, so why would I be up to date with what’s happening on the boob tube? At any rate, the Sundance Channel is going to premiere City of Men tonight at 9; it's the… Continue reading
Samuel L Jackson continues to indiscriminately sign on to projects, the latest being an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story 1408, itself an adaptation of a section of his book The Shining. Jackson seems to just sign whatever contract is on the top of his… Continue reading
I was hoping that after Mr. & Mrs. Smith Doug Liman would return to making smaller movies. He hasn’t, but it seems like he’s meeting me halfway – the most famous person currently on board his next project, Jumper, is Jamie “Gone after the second act of King… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Tartan VideoMSRP: $9.99RATED: PG-13RUNNING TIME: 80 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Theatrical Trailer• Bonus Interview Footage• Deleted Scenes Disclaimer: This is a Blue State review. The Pitch “Got a good Karl Rove story? I mean,… Continue reading
