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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
Here’s the kind of Cannes story you wouldn’t expect to hear normally: After an apparently successful screening, MGM is grabbing the new Rob Schnieder movie Big Stan, a prison/martial arts comedy, even though Schneider and crew have already sold off partial… 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
300, and its explosive box office run, had a lot of surprises for the industry, but one of the greatest was the ease with which Gerard Butler anchored the film in his star-making turn as King Leonidas. And ever since then, casual fans and fanboys alike have… Continue reading
For me, movies based on kung fu manuals pretty much reached an impenetrable ceiling when Stephen Chow turned out the slow-starting, yet insanely entertaining Kung Fu Hustle. For the unfortunate uninitiated, he played a shifty geek whose life was irrevocably… 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
So you have this romantic film directed by one of the world’s best directors for this sort of material, Wong Kar Wai (In The Mood For Love). The film’s at Cannes, and it’s got an incredible ensemble cast headed by singer Norah Jones and Jude Law, but also… Continue reading
My apologies to the legion of Blacula fans out there. I just couldn’t resist borrowing the name to tie Ernest Dickerson and the new Dracula film together. To be fair, this isn’t a Dracula film, exactly. It’s all a little bit confusing. A few weeks back, word… Continue reading
1. EMPIRE – JUNE 2007 The biggest and best movie magazine in the world. Made in the UK. Huge. That's all you need to know. This issue's strong points: This issue is definitive proof that Empire are the Kings of Layout. I honestly didn't think I could read… Continue reading
My membership fees in the black race are way past due, and honestly, I’m thinking about telling them to fuck off and canceling. What am I getting for my money these days? An eloquent, yet vacuous robo-candidate for President. A signature genre of music that’s… Continue reading
While I appreciated the nod to the endlessly entertaining surfer crime flick Point Break in the splendid comedy cop brilliance that is Hot Fuzz, I never considered the film to have such a brand name and enduring appeal that we would actually see further… Continue reading
Maybe I’ve sat idly by one too many times as The Transporter 2 scorched my eyelids during one of its kazillion showings on HBO. Maybe I’ve watched way too many martial arts action flicks. Maybe I’m amazed at the way I really need you. I’m not sure what it is… Continue reading
