Archive · 2007
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Men in Black, meet C.H.U.D.. C.H.U.D. meet Men in Black. M.I.B, C.H.U.D.,proceed to copulate.Not to sully the CHUD name there, but Dreamworks has picked up what's being called an "action-comedy" spec script called The Secret Lives of Road Crews. See, all… 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
Say what you want about the Weinsteins, but it goes without saying that they know how to work the film industry system (and make it work) better than I know how to curse little bastards on XBOX Live- and that's saying something.Still, there's something about… Continue reading
[Note: The Exterminating Angels is set for a limited theatrical release starting March 7. IFC Films' website has the full schedule of release.] When I start watching a movie for review, I fire up my word processor alongside so I can snatch bits of thoughts… Continue reading
The Baron Cohen name is getting a cardiovascular workout these days. Sasha Baron Cohen is becoming a household name thanks to the big fat success of Borat, and Borat cousin Ash Baron Cohen has been running the entertainment treadmill as well. I was going to… Continue reading
If you were a pre-teen in the eighties or nineties, you know the name Alvin Schwartz. Next to Stephen King, he's probably responsible for warping more fragile little minds than any other author – between 1981 and 1991, he collected and retold tales of… Continue reading
He overcame some long odds to become the governor of California. He’s survived many challenges since. He rebounded from the outright rejection of his definitive ballot initiatives to take the state in a different direction. He’s taken the lead on some of the… Continue reading
As filming on John Rambo gets underway, we’re getting juicy detail after juicy detail. The latest involves the badass who’s going to be opposing one John J. Rambo (please say the J) as he ends lives in the jungles of Myanmar. Apparently realizing that there… Continue reading
Even though Running Scared hit with all of the impact of a sneeze, it managed to change the way I saw Paul Walker. That is to say…I realized he had a pulse. There wasn’t a lot of convincing proof before then as every role he’d taken required little of him but… Continue reading
The new issue of Empire Magazine has a cover story about Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, along with a bunch of images from the film. Many of the pictures have already been released, but there’s one that caught my eye. It’s The Thing smashing… Continue reading
Zodiac is journalism. Zodiac is a David Fincher movie unlike any other David Fincher movie. Zodiac feels a lot like a masterpiece. David Fincher’s feature career, with the exception of the disastrous Alien 3, is filled with gimmick films. He uses visual… Continue reading
I guess her marriage to Tom Cruise made Nicole Kidman a fan of fakery, because she’s guest-starring on the fifth season of Nip/Tuck. The Oscar-winning Kidman, who met Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy on the set of their film Need, asked the (warden) pope of… Continue reading
