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Here’s a spelling word for you: fatuous. Bee Season is a terrible and smug film, a movie that made me actually angry. If that was the effect it was going for I would call it a masterpiece, but since I am pretty sure that inchoate rage is the exact opposite of… Continue reading
Jim Sheridan’s new film, Get Rich or Die Tryin’ has one huge, obvious flaw, and it’s fatal. His star, 50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson, is painfully bad at acting. This is especially tragic as 50 is playing a character who is based completely on him, and whose… Continue reading
War is hell. We know that from watching Hollywood’s output of war movies. Now Jarhead comes along to show us another side of that – no war is hell, too. Anthony Swofford has joined the Marines, making “a wrong turn on the way to college.” He’s got a pretty… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: Da Capo PressMSRP: $17.50PAGES: 330What turns us on? What turns critics on? This is the question The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On (possibly the longest unwarranted… Continue reading
I’ve always been fascinated by Pete Best. What must it be like to be fired from The Beatles just before they become worldwide sensations? How do you deal with living life in Liverpool while the other three guys you used to hang out with go on to conquer the… Continue reading
I don’t know that I can ever truly forgive Nicolas Cage. I remember when this Coppola Clansman was so into his art and craft that he ate a live cockroach for a very, very shitty horror film. Then he began taking roles in obnoxious action films halfway through… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!AUTHOR: Jane AustenPUBLISHER: PenguinMSRP: $10.00PAGES: 367 CHUD is a classy place, I tell you what. We eat finger sandwiches and commiserate about international politics. We indulge ourselves in clever jests about the failing… Continue reading
The Mask of Zorro was a real breath of fresh air in the stale, stale year of 1998. That was the year of dueling asteroid films and Godzilla; it seemed like the Hollywood action film was about to go the way of the musical. But Zorro was lithe where the rest… Continue reading
If I have as much fun in a theater with another movie this year as I had with Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, 2005 will go down in history as the greatest year for cinema ever. Shane Black, best known for his high-octane buddy pictures like Lethal Weapon and The Long… Continue reading
The issue film seems to have been relegated to TV for the last few years, but every now and then one rears its head and lumbers to the Academy Awards – The Insider, or Erin Brockovich or Boys Don’t Cry. For 2005 it’s North Country, a fictioned up version of… Continue reading
Every couple of years the other Steve Martin emerges from his hole, blearily blinks his eyes, makes a good movie, and then goes back to sleep again. While that Steve Martin sleeps there’s a different guy who runs around making shitty and broad comedies like… Continue reading
