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Once again, it just doesn't matter if anyone but the ticket-buying public thinks a movie blows. Or does it? Friday estimates are in for Spider-Man 3, and they're in record-breaking territory: $59 million, trouncing the comparatively paltry $55.8 million… Continue reading
Earl Dittman wins. He gets his name (even in small print) associated with a massive marketing push and we just get another lousy blockbuster. I'll spend the next few hundred words explaining eactly why, but for the people who just read the first paragraph and… Continue reading
If you've been reading Jeremy's fantastic Crop Report feature, you'd know that Burn Before Reading, the Coen Brothers' follow-up to the already completed No Country For Old Men, sounds like a pitch-perfect return to form. That's on the page, anyway, and since… Continue reading
…aaaand we're back. May. The most obvious month in cinema. I know that everyone reading this is planning to see Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean, and I'm afraid that some of you are going to plonk down duckets for Shrek, as well. Your funeral,… Continue reading
Time was, when John Cusack announced that he was doing a movie with Jan de Bont, our reaction would have been predictable. RomCom hero joins high-budget hack! Will Womb Raider unite the sexes in box office bliss? Alas, those days are gone, and friendly (read:… Continue reading
It makes sense that just as I was engaging in a mini-discussion of I Spit On Your Grave on our message board, the trailer would pop up for Elisha Cuthbert's second porn movie, Captivity. Torture porn, that is. Her first being the trashy and… Continue reading
I did pretty well on the English half of the SATs way back when, which means I was always good at word matrices and other matches sets of names and concepts. So if you asked me to complete a trio featuring Tina Fey and Amy Pohler I'd say Jane Krakowski or… 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
When I'm in the supermarket at 3AM paying for some terrible boxed product to satisfy whatever post-bar craving has possessed me for the evening, I inevitably look in awe upon the many rows of paperback thrillers. The names of both author and novel often seem… Continue reading
Updated: With the new UK release date and plan: scroll down for the new news. Most news items are like a 7" punk single, arriving with a bang and over in a flash. Grindhouse news, on the other hand, is becoming a 12" extended club remix, where the same chorus… Continue reading
How about a late Friday pick-me-up? Trailers of various sizes have hit for Run, Fatboy, Run, Picturehouse's upcoming comedy starring Simon Pegg and Dylan Moran. (He played David in Shaun of the Dead, you forgetful stoners.) And before you complain that… Continue reading
See what I get for not checking daily on Joanna Cassidy's website? A number of sites (1, 2) are reporting on Blade Runner reshoots, based on a post at said location. Specifically: Joanna has just finished re-shooting her scenes from the original BLADE RUNNER… Continue reading
