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From the looks of the below-embedded trailer, 20th Century Fox's The Dark is Rising will mark the studio's second failed attempt to launch a fantasy franchise in as many years. As with Eragon, the culprit is a dearth of genuine enthusiasm for the material;… Continue reading
Since one of my friends is an idiot who watches more television than Billy Baldwin in Sliver ("Get a life!"), I got hooked on American Idol during the 2005 season, which boasted what may have been the most talented class of finalists in the show's history. Of… Continue reading
For today and maybe today only, I'm going to stow the negative attitude and say something nice about Indiana Jones 4: it's pretty goddamn cool to see the world's toughest professor shooting us the ol' constipated glare for the first time in eighteen years.… Continue reading
Peter Jackson's casting on The Lovely Bones has been note perfect thus far (what with Rachel Weisz and Ryan Gosling snagging the crucial parental roles), so I'm going to trust him on thirteen-year-old Ms. Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon (and we'll be seeing… Continue reading
Kenny Ortega might be known around Hollywood right now as one of the masterminds of the lucrative High School Musical phenomenon, but, in my heart, he'll always be the director of Newsies. (Look, you can throw Batman Begins, The Prestige and Reign of Fire at… Continue reading
That it's become cliche to lament the passing of Steve Martin's credibility leaves me with no option but to curse one of my comedy heroes for hatching an uninspired spy thriller premise that, on its face, wouldn't pass muster as a made-for-cable movie. If… Continue reading
Note to publicists: this extremely NSFW clip from Cashback shall be considered the gold standard for CHUD-linked promotional materials henceforth. If you cannot favor us with this much gratuitous nudity, please don't bother. Important: this does not apply to… Continue reading
Missing from Anne Thompson's article relaying Kevin Spacey's plans to reprise his role as Lex Luthor in the sequel to Superman Returns, currently titled Man of Steel, are a number of things: 1) a budget, 2) a credible explanation as to how Bryan Singer will… Continue reading
Imagine if Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro suddenly decided they hated each other and would never work with each other again. In my mind, the apparently now-permanent break-up of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat is that catastrophic. Though the two men haven't… Continue reading
You may not have heard much about Gavin Hood's Rendition, but, by the end of this September's Toronto Film Festival, it could very well be a frontrunner for Best Picture. It's not like this is a stretch; Hood's Tsotsi won the 2005 Oscar for Best Foreign Film,… Continue reading
Is July 10th National Theatrical Trailer Day or something? First, we get In the Valley of Elah. Then Get Smart. Now Jerry Seinfeld's perilously hyped (see the photo to your right) Bee Story and Kenneth Branagh's Harold Pinter-scripted remake of Sleuth! Which… Continue reading
I am no fan of Paul Haggis outside of the Bond franchise (where he should be permanently ensconced until whatever's cooking there goes cold), but I'll say this much about the screenplay for his Iraq War drama In the Valley of Elah: it didn't make me want to… Continue reading
