Archive · 2007
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First off, I apologize for the delay. The holiday week and a few other unforeseen complications got in the way of our prognostication this month. But we’re not about to let it go, since July is bursting with films, especially if you live in an area fed by a… Continue reading
# Title the Title! Weekend the Total! Per the Screen! Film the Total! 1 Transformers $67,600,000 $16,853 $152,500,000 2 Ratatouille $29,029,000 (-38.3%) $7,367 $109,546,000 3 Live Freebreeze or Dye Hard $17,400,000 (-47.9%) $5,101 $84,160,000 4 License to Wed… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Tartan VideoMSRP: $22.95RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 107 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Feature Commentary w/ director & film critics• "Making-of" featurette• "Behind the Scenes" featurette• Special Effecets featurette• Deleted… Continue reading
Have you been waffling about going to San Diego Comic Con this year?* Sure, you’re thinking, I could go to Con and meet actors and comic creators, be among the first to see footage from upcoming exciting movies, fill the holes in my collections of geek crap… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: LionsgateMSRP: $19.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 299 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:Replicant• Commentary by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Michael Rooker• Deleted Scenes• Storyboards• Cast & Crew Bios• Photo GalleryUniversal Soldier•… Continue reading
Here's a fun dilemma! I don't want to break embargo on Ben Affleck's directorial debut, Gone, Baby, Gone (saw it a couple of weeks ago for long-lead), but I also don't want to run a link to its just-released theatrical trailer without offering this caveat:… Continue reading
I love Ang Lee, but I would never try to sell his movies on the power of their lush, romantic imagery; unlike the work of his Taiwanese contemporaries, Hou Hsiao-hsien and the recently deceased Edward Yang (and I'm going off the judgement calls of my peers on… Continue reading
Welcome to the next CHUD List. We've tackled our our disappointments, our essentials list and slowly exhumed our Kills List from 2003, and now that we've begun the beguine, we must continue. Behold: The CHUD.com Top 50 Guilty Pleasures. We've all got those… Continue reading
The viral marketing campaign for the J.J. Abrams-produced monster flick that was trailered before Transformers has gotten into full swing. It started small with the official site: http://www.1-18-08.com. As Russ previously reported, there’s nothing there but… Continue reading
It’s Friday so it must be time for some news and rants: Power of 3(60) According to former EB and Best Buy employees, the 360 failure rate is about 33%. One of the most sought after stories in the gaming world is the true 360 failure rate. Microsoft… Continue reading
If there's one thing I learned from living within gimlet-hurling distance of New England for five years, it's that you don't want to come down on the wrong side of the Essex-Bedford turf war. John Cheever made this mistake early in his literary career, and… Continue reading
This doesn't do much for the "leave it the fuck alone" camp, but it's certainly better than the previous alternative… I think. According to Variety, Zak Penn has pulled rewriting duty on Joel Silver's The Dirty Dozen remake, which will hopefully be a… Continue reading
