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I’m grateful to be living in a golden age of sorts for geek material, but the flipside of that is not unlike the flipside when music scenes have exploded. When the Seattle music scene blew up in the early 90s, we got to enjoy the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam,… Continue reading
Instead of just bumping the one article for the CHUD Podcast, I'm going to give each installment their own so that we can build this thing up a little better and keep it fresh. Of course fresh isn't exactly on the menu with these shows due to the meandering… Continue reading
It’s a familiar storyline by now: The Internet has put entertainment, as we know it, at a crossroads. Now that people can get music, books, and movies when they want it, how they want it, and for whatever price (or none at all) they wish to pay, the big money… Continue reading
I was underwhelmed the very first time I saw Sin City. Being unfamiliar with the source material, I had no particular admiration for the seemingly literal presentation of it that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller provided. I’ve since come to enjoy it to some… Continue reading
News of a new Ben Stiller comedy these days is about as surprising as your next breath. The guy simply will not stop, and because of the sheer volume of his work, he’s more than able to weather a dud or two. You don’t care for a film of his? Or three? Or the… Continue reading
I’ve already said/admitted to many things on this site that would greatly endanger my membership in the black race. Here’s another: I don’t and have never watched Girlfriends. In fact, you probably haven’t either, but here’s the deal. It is currently the… Continue reading
Since we’re all about fanboy wishes this morn, here’s another one we’ll briefly indulge. It wasn’t so long ago that fanboy casting for a Watchmen film ran rampant and in completely different directions than the most recent rumblings of Jackie Earle Haley,… Continue reading
Recent talk from Brad Bird this weekend has produced some Oh Don Piano vibes manifesting in the form of rumors of a sequel to The Incredibles. Specifically, Bird was quoted during press for Ratatouille regarding that film “I love the world. I love the… Continue reading
It’s not right to enjoy the first two Highlander films as much as I do. It might not even be legal. But I’m powerless before the combined might of Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, and the somehow simultaneously bombastic and pedestrian direction of one… Continue reading
1. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY #940 Sure, their film reviews are hated by geeks. Yes, they follow trends incessantly. And yes, music coverage is generally an afterthought. But it's surely the most fun weekly read out there, and they have television on lock. Plus,… Continue reading
It’s interesting that the film industry has just recently come around to the idea of treating the direct-to-DVD market as a viable entity for (low-rent) original content because black filmmakers have been running in this lane for sometime, but moreso out of… Continue reading
The success of the Saw films is depressing for many reasons, but one of the chief ones is that it empowers Twisted Pictures, the production company behind the films, with carte blanche to not only make new mediocre horror films at will, but also to acquire… Continue reading
