Archive · 2006
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The trailer for David Fincher’s new film, Zodiac, is on the web. Click here to see it. I would tell you what I thought about this trailer, but after trying to watch it three times and having it turn into a narrated slideshow each time, I gave up. I’ll wait… Continue reading
I don’t know where Garth Franklin gets all his links from. Dark Horizons links to the most obscure corners of the net, which I love – it makes the site one of my daily must-reads. Otherwise how would I ever know that “MyVideoStore.com” is reporting that… Continue reading
Peter Weir, who last directed the vastly underrated Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, is getting nautical again with his next film, Shadow Divers. A long in development movie – once rumored to be Ridley Scott’s – it’s based on a book of the… Continue reading
I have to upfront with you people – I am no longer impartial when it comes to Dax Shepard. When I interviewed him in the W Hotel in Los Angeles last weekend he told me he liked my beard, which has grown to Old Testament proportions. “Some of my friends don’t… Continue reading
Welcome to the revival of CHUD.com’s video game presence, Master Control Program. Since it’s an exciting [and expensive] time to be a video game aficionado, what better time to bring back the column that almost was, a look at all things console and handheld?… Continue reading
Voldemort, you snake-faced bastard! The first teaser poster for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* has been loosed upon the world (below!), and it makes it look like things are going to be pretty dark for our heroes this time around. Actually, if… Continue reading
We haven’t even had Christmas 2006 and already the 2007 holiday movies are strutting their stuff. Thankfully the ’07 Christmas film that’s running a teaser happens to be one I’m actually looking forward to: Fred Claus. It’s about Santa Claus’ brother Fred,… Continue reading
The face of the Oscar race may be getting an overhaul, if Tom O’Neil’s Gold Derby is right – Warner Bros is going to give Letters From Iwo Jima a one week New York and LA qualifying run at the end of the year.Letters is the companion piece to Clint Eastwood’s… Continue reading
It’s been a really long time since we’ve seen anything from Frank Darabont. The last film to carry his writing credit was 1999’s The Green Mile, and his last feature directorial effort was 2001’s The Majestic. But now he’s coming back – he has two movies… Continue reading
Talk show couches across the nation, beware! Tom Cruise is coming back. After getting canned from Paramount and seeing Mission: Impossible III deflate at the box office, the tiny thespian is acting just like a Tom Cruise character at the end of the second act… Continue reading
The reason for my lackadaisical posting of this column wasn’t because the dog ate it or even because I just plain forgot. No, I believe I can pin it on one man. Jesus H. Christ Calling the supremely disappointing The Da Vinci Code anything less than severe… Continue reading
The Pitch "I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty / I've got whozits and whatsits galore / You want thingamabobs? / I've got twenty! / And they've all / been employed / to kill whores…" Lionsgate snaps up distribution rights on a lot of horror, for which… Continue reading
