Archive · 2007
405 posts
What I think it'll take for me to enjoy a new Jack Black movie: A small budget. A concept that doesn't take a dictionary and a stack of Tijuana Bibles to explain. Pants. Which is a roundabout way of saying, of course, that Nacho Libre was terrible and that… Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We've tackled our essentials list and the continued revelation of our Kills List from 2003, and now that we've begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Disappointments. A quick word on the criteria. We… Continue reading
Horror comedies are tricky beasts, and it’s the rare one that’s successful as both comedy and horror film. Severance is one of those. A busload of employees of arms manufacturer Palisade are on a tour of Eastern Europe, selling their wares. At one point they… Continue reading
If you haven't seen James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction, try to do so. It's one of those flawed but fascinating documentaries that capures a subject in spite of itself. In this case, the subject is obviously Ellroy, as he talks about his history… Continue reading
If there’s one thing that grabs my attention more than a B-list actor starring in a film, it’s when a gaggle of them are in one film together. But there are gradients even amongst B-actors, and it’s only fair to make the distinction. For example, even though… Continue reading
We should have all seen this coming. For years, books have been optioned before they ever hit shelves. Hannibal: Vegan? Not even left Harris' pen yet, and it's already a movie. I bought a copy in Chinatown over the weekend. But now we've moved into the new… Continue reading
I keep saying it, but y’all don’t really hear me: If you’re a screenwriter, toss out that pirated copy of Final Draft and crank up Microsoft Word. If you want to get some films made these days, you need to be writing high-profile magazine articles, chump. Now… Continue reading
Despite the fact that Daniel Craig moved on from his upcoming film Blindness, Fernando Meirelles is moving full steam ahead and in directions you might not expect given his rather grim filmography thus far, which includes The Constant Gardener and City of God… Continue reading
Damn, this week is pretty stacked. There is a lot of pretty good releases and most of them are of older movies. I’m gonna touch on the four new releases that actually matter this week and then there is a lot to cover with re-releases, special editions and… Continue reading
First off, in case you missed it: StarCraft 2 before you die.In less happy news, Valve has decided to axe one of their planned upcoming box sets for Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Around Halloween, they were going to release a "Black Box" and an "Orange Box;" the… Continue reading
Getting paid to do chicks. Short of getting paid to conduct breast exams for the 35 and not obese crowd, could there be anything finer? I dare say no. And Michael Baisden knows it– dude makes a living writing and talking about it. To be honest, I'd never… Continue reading
Wong Kar Wai. David Cronenberg. Atom Egoyan. Jane Campion. Roman Polanski. Takeshi Kitano. Gus Van Sant. These are some of the people who took the stage at a press conference in Cannes this weekend; all had made one of 33 three minute long ‘Chacun Son Cinema’… Continue reading
