Archive · 2007

February 2007

339 posts

DVD REVIEW: BUTCHER BOY, THE

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $19.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 111 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Feature Commentary w/ Neil Jordan• Deleted scenes• Trailer The Pitch "It's Stand by Me meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as filtered through… Continue reading

NEED A MOVIE? CALL EIDOS.

Cross-platform development is going bananas and video games are getting crazy love. Hot on the heels of Metal Gear being optioned comes the news unreleased Eidos (whose Hitman is currently ramping up) title Kane & Lynch has had its screen rights acquired by… Continue reading

SHILLING JUNK

With the upcoming release of the film Jim Carrey reportedly fired his agency over, The Number 23, PR folks are in full water-bailing effect, proving themselves to be tactless assholes in the process.Today my film critic buddy received a press release for The… Continue reading

DRAINING THE LILLARD

Two things that never need appear again in a film not oriented towards the chronic masturbator crowd: pool boys and pimps. And yet American Summer will soon begin shooting in New Orleans, hiding both those archetypes not only under one blasé title, but in a… Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: FUCK

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: ThinkfilmMSRP: $19.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 90 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary Deleted/Extended Scenes Interviews Trailers The Pitch That most taboo of words discussed in documentary form by pundits, politicos, and… Continue reading

MCP: BIO-ORGANIC STORY

There are a couple schools of thought when it comes to the purpose and potential of videogames. Some developers see the format as an abstract sort of canvas, an opportunity for interactivty, in which the player's imagination is lord. The other faction (we'll… Continue reading

ESSENTIAL CHUD – DAY TWO

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

YOU'LL BELIEVE A DOG CAN FLY

You can’t always tell much about a movie from the trailer. You can tell even less from the teaser. But that doesn’t stop most of us from leaping to conclusions when we see one, and I have to say that if the teaser for Underdog is representative of the tone… Continue reading