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Despite Sylvester Stallone’s surprisingly successful Rocky Balboa, it’s still a little too early to say he’s on a comeback. And part of problem, at least for me, is the Millennium Films-funded, almost buzz-less John Rambo, which just seems like a creaky… Continue reading
CHUD's got a good number of columns that cover a pretty wide chunk of the film spectrum. Beaks gives you the prestige, along with liberal helpings of wit and brilliance. Devin's all over the place with great movie and TV-related rants. Jason Pollock… Continue reading
It just isn’t safe anymore. It’s not safe to make a joke about a videogame, however shitty and obscure, becoming a motion picture. Same goes for whatever cheesy cartoons you watched as a young’un. Hollywood these days don’t give a fuck, son. They will adapt… Continue reading
The startlingly anemic grosses of Uwe Boll’s theatrical output in America (I think Leona Helmsley’s dog inherited more money than their profits combined. Actually, I think Nick made more from banner ads in the past seven minutes than their profits combined.)… Continue reading
I’ll admit that I’ve never been the biggest horror fan, but when I do dip my toes in those waters, I try to make it count by avoiding crap as much as possible. Thus, all I ever…err, saw of the Saw films was the UMD version of the first movie which I stopped… Continue reading
It’s generally accepted now that a big part of the success of Casino Royale’s reboot of the Bond franchise was its shameless aping of the tone and feel of the Bourne movies, specifically the Paul Greengrass-directed The Bourne Supremacy. Of course, this isn’t… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: SonyMSRP: $24.96RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 94 agonizing minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: Making of Documentary The Pitch It's North by Northwest with 100 percent less wit, class, and style and 100 percent more dermal topography. The… Continue reading
I thought we were done with this Japanese horror film remake bullshit after they demonized every conceivable inanimate object (e.g. water, houses, VHS tapes, computers, tentacles…wait a minute….) and then managed to get American producers to pay for the… Continue reading
Ah, pay cable. The great equalizer. Sure, it takes a certain something special to get a major studio to finance your film, then like it enough to release it with lots of prints and advertising. But suppose you got a film fulla stars and you still ain’t got… Continue reading
In the recording for the latest podcast (coming soon…we promise!), we got into a discussion of comedians/comedic actors who get trapped into an onscreen persona and are unable to find significant and/or successful work outside of it. Missing from that… Continue reading
Jesus, we’ve been awash in some great trailers this week. Add another to the pile. The new American Gangster international trailer is online, and it…is…fuckin’ epic. Between the ace intro use of Bobby Womack’s “Across 110th Street” (Um….Jackie Brown,… Continue reading
As a fan of Westerns, I’m pleased as punch to see a bigscreen resurgence this year. 3:10 to Yuma has good buzz and great pedigree, and hot on its September heels comes The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which now has a brand spanking… Continue reading
