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I have not read Claire Messud's novel, The Emperor's Children, but even if it is a terrible book, it seems like there is the skeleton of a good movie here. You don't have to be an Ivy Leaguer to relate to the idea of three Brown University grads who, years… Continue reading
If you didn't read the first part of this now three-part series, it'll look like I'm just randomly categorizing 2007 movies. If you did read the first part of this now three-part series, you'll know I'm just randomly categorizing 2007 movies. You can go back… 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
Now that twenty-eight-year-old Sarah Polley has established herself as a filmmaker of some talent with the deeply affecting Away from Her, I'd love to see her apply an equal degree of discernment when it comes to taking acting gigs. Polley is incredibly… Continue reading
No need to inveigh against the Weinsteins for once again acquiring a quality film and shelving it due to marketing neglect/ineptitude; whatever harm they did to All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, it'll be undone by the good folks at Senator U.S., which will… Continue reading
I sure hope Elisha Cuthbert lived in a bottle this weekend. It's bad enough to have a movie sold on the entertainment value of your unremitting torture and eventual murder; I can't imagine how much it would suck to be rewarded for such willful… Continue reading
I'm only posting this because I feel obliged to give folks who are actively excited over Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight their 307th glimpse of Heath Ledger as The Joker. Little has changed since our first impression; he still looks vaguely like the The… Continue reading
At first blush, United International Pictures unceremoniously kiboshing the Japanese release of Evan Almighty doesn't seem like the greatest news in the world for Steve Carell. Pretty much every major studio release gets a shot at the Japanese market. They… Continue reading
I'll admit it: I am completely incapable of understanding other cultures, races, ethnicities and creeds without a white surrogate. I am frightened by the other. They smell different. They eat loudly. They lambada. Thankfully, Hollywood feels the same way. For… Continue reading
Managing one's expectations for Robert Zemeckis's performance capture rendition of Beowulf is easy: just recall the front-to-back awfulness of The Polar Express! That film was Zemeckis at his autopilot worst. Though a technical marvel and occasionally… Continue reading
Had the below clip of Cate Blanchett inhabiting the body of a twenty-four-year-old Bob Dylan following the troubadour's electric transgression at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival appeared before I began categorizing the year's remaining films, I would've bumped… Continue reading
For a while there, it looked as though 2007 was gearing up to be one of the worst movie years in film history. Typically, a couple of difficult-to-market gems turn up in February or March, but, this year, it was all dross: the studio stuff (Ghost Rider, Wild… Continue reading
