Archive · 2007
339 posts
We reported on the rumor a couple of weeks ago, and now it's confirmed in the trades: Aaron Eckhart is going to be Two-Face in the upcoming Nolan sequel The Dark Knight. It's just one more element that indicates Christopher Nolan is taking these films… Continue reading
Here’s great news for people who like good movies: Hot Fuzz is off to a killer start in the UK. Universal opened the film there on Valentine’s Day, and it proceeded to make $1.76 million on 500 screens. This doesn’t sound like a lot to us Americans, but when… Continue reading
The big trailer for Grindhouse is out, and I hate to revert to internet movie geek type, but it fucking kicks ass. It is just a terrific trailer, and one that really has the perfect feel of the grindhouse trailers of the day – this trailer could fit quite… Continue reading
When I was a kid and my mom or the school would take me to the planetarium, there were a couple of items in the gift shop that always fascinated me to no end. There was astronaut ice cream, the space age treat. There were the pens that could write upside down… 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
Robert Hanssen is a fascinating man. A patriotic American and FBI agent, Hanssen sold secrets to the Russians for over twenty years. A devout and strict Catholic and family man, Hanssen carried on an affair with a stripper and secretly videotaped sex with his… Continue reading
I’ve been eagerly awaiting Zack Snyder’s take on Frank Miller’s 300 ever since I visited the set in December of 2005 and saw the concept video that he used to sell himself to Warner Bros. I had doubts that this would be as special as everyone was claiming,… Continue reading
The great, great grandson of Rambo, Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra (I won't even touch that) has added broken armed Army Ranger and evil doctor/orchid-loving Anaconda bait Matthew Marsden to its ranks.Matthew hops in the boots of a mercenary who joins forces… Continue reading
What makes one a Chewer? It isn't just reading CHUD.com regularly, although that's a great start. It definitely isn't being an expert at mastication. Being a Chewer requires a certain sensibility that's outside of the mainstream. Sure, a Chewer can hold his… Continue reading
Batman gotta have a girlfriend. I don’t know why, but this is a pretty big deal for Hollywood. Every Batman movie has had a love interest, and for all the talk about Christopher Nolan doing the best Batman movie (he didn’t), he still kept with this lame, lame… Continue reading
The Civil War is one of those periods in history films visit, but seldom visit well or often enough. Ted Turner churned out a couple bank-busting epics with Gettysburg and Gods and Generals (and by epics I mean Lunesta-replacing boring). The last emotionally… Continue reading
A little earlier this week, Dev reported on the new fantasy movie The Dark is Rising, which is based on a five-book series, some of which is derived from Arthurian Legends. Ian McShane was cast as the mystical mentor to the young protagonist (Alexander… Continue reading
