Perhaps it’s suitable that MTV films has partnered with Paramount to bring us the story of U.S. soldiers who return home from the current war in Iraq and are very changed people. After all, it is the young generation that’s doing their duty; being sent to fight in that uneasy, messy conflict. (Earlier this week, […]
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Eric and J.D. review the Judd Apatow-produced, Seth Rogen/John Hughes-written comedy “Drillbit Taylor,” starring Owen Wilson and three kids who stepped out of a “Superbad” time machine three years earlier. Find out why movie studios release movies like this one, directed by Steven Brill (“Without a Paddle,” “Mr. Deeds”), in March. Eric’s print review is […]
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It’s common knowledge that Judd Apatow and his merry band of improv comedians have helped to make movies like “Knocked Up” and “Superbad” way better than your average batch of raunchy comedies while simultaneously seeming more authentic. When Seth Rogen and his friends get in a room together to do improvise the hell out of […]
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It may be produced by Judd Apatow and co-written by Seth Rogen, but this DOA PG-13 “Superbad” was directed by the guy whose last two movies were “Without a Paddle” and “Mr. Deeds.”
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Alfonso Cuaron’s masterful “Children of Men,” the best film of 2006, takes place in a not-too-distant future where women are unable to give birth and the planet is dying out. It’s a metaphor for the way things are going today. Everybody is so excited to look into the future, but if art is truly a […]
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My third day at South by Southwest 2008 was a busy one. I was wandering in and out of panels all day. The Jeffrey Tambor acting workshop on how to properly direct actors was more than just a chance for the “Arrested Development” star to show how funny he is in real life, it actually […]
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When you wake suddenly from a dream about Doc Brown and Libyan terrorists who drive around in a VW bus to a loud, static-masked radio station at 7:30 am, you know it’s going to be a long day. (Confused? Read yesterday’s SXSW blog here.) A couple cups of coffee and one continental buffet breakfast later, […]
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I’ve only been away from Austin, TX now for 24 hours, and I’ve got a huge hangover—not from drinking (although I did my fare share), but because the work at my job that didn’t get done while I was gone is piling up around me and threatening to bury me. There’s something liberating about listening […]
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A suberbly-realistic version of what is was like to be alive in the year 10,000 B.C. may be found on the Discovery Channel. This movie is “Braveheart” with mammoths.
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If Graham Chapman from Monty Python were still alive, he’d be liable to walk into any theater showing this movie and stop the projector at will because it is getting far too silly.
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I’ve always been worried about whether this could even be made into a 2-hour movie, and I’ve expressed plenty of concern about the man in charge, but from the looks of things, the visual sense will be absolutely top-notch. On the official “Watchmen” website, director Zack Snyder (“300”) has posted the first pictures of five major characters from the movie […]
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In movies, too often drinking is seen as a bad thing. If there’s one thing we know from the bastardized, modern-day versions of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations that are so prevalent today, its that drinking can also be fun and funny. So, while none of these films are Irish movies, they all have drunken characters spouting wit […]
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It’s a basketball movie with almost no basketball– Will Ferrell pulls crazy stunts to fill seats in a bottom-tier 1970s sports league.
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“Semi-Pro” is the new Will Ferrell sports movie. Set in the 1970s, it is the story of an over-the-hill basketball player who has an NBA championship ring—only now he’s on his last legs, slumming it in Michigan with an ironically-named American Basketball Association team called the Flint Tropics. The only problem is that particular character […]
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A tricky narrative makes this whodunit mystery a captivating watch, even if it doesn’t quite pay off.
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