Archive · 2006
194 posts
Welcome back. You’re all just a bunch of hooligans, anyway. Misanthropes It’s irresponsible to not sink your cinematic houndstooth into The Proposition (read Russ’ Toronto Coverage) – a western fable scripted by Nick Cave. From the bravura opening to the play… Continue reading
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you'll probably be this film. Actually, no. You will not. That said, you can win this DVD and that's almost as good or even better, depending on how you feel about Frankie Muniz as a character named Swink… Continue reading
Over the course of two seasons Battlestar Galactica has gone from “They brought back that crappy show?” to one of the smartest and relevant programs on television (to be fair, it was always smart and relevant, it’s just that a lot of us didn’t realize it… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: HyperionMSRP: $21.95PAGES: 272 I'm not really interested in the meta of Lost. The creators have diversified from the serial television story to include a meta-game called The Lost Experience which seems to fascinate… Continue reading
JRR Tolkien may have diminished to the West, but he remains Galadriel. Now, 275 years after his death, a new Middle Earth book, written by JRR himself, is coming out. I like to imagine L Ron Hubbard and VC Andrews welcoming the old man into the Posthumous… Continue reading
What if God and the Devil came to Earth and wooed a woman? That’s the premise of God, the Devil and Lucy, wherein Yaweh and Lucifer get tired of duking it out for human souls and decide that whoever can land Lucy will be declared the winner. The only rule is… Continue reading
When people talk about Francis Ford Coppola they always mention the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, and maybe if they’re disparaging him, Jack. But one of his great films almost never gets mentioned, and it’s too bad – The Conversation, released between… Continue reading
Just when you thought your expectations for Death Sentence, the new Kevin Bacon starring film directed by Saw “mastermind” James Wan, couldn’t get any lower, they go and cast Aisha Tyler as a 50-year old man.The film is based on the book of the same name by… Continue reading
CHUD.com is again ahead of the curve. Back in June I sat down with director Nick Jarecki to talk about his fascinating film portrait of director James Toback, The Outsider. In that interview, Nick spilled the beans on his next project: Q: You have the book… Continue reading
I now present, the Storm Before The HIM: Continue reading
Last week George Clooney used his movie star fame and good looks to get a meeting with the folks at the UN, hoping to make them pay attention to the genocide in Darfur. Now that he’s solved that problem, George is heading back to the director’s chair for… Continue reading
It seems like Zak Penn's The Grand has been in the works forever, so long ago that the set visit was conducted by former CHUD editor Dave Davis as well as our current SEE THE TRAILER! Continue reading
