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"Don't judge a book by its cover" is one of the most pedestrian -- but most helpful -- of all the great proverbs, and its lesson holds doubly true when it comes to movie advertising. If you judged the silly...

"Paul", the latest from the team of writer/actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, is a hilarious geek-gasm of a movie, and nothing more. It is the third film for the Pegg/Frost creative pairing ("Shaun of the Dead", "Hot Fuzz"),...

In an ordinary parking lot on a cloudy day in downtown Austin, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Greg Mottola sat in folding chairs and talked to the press about their "geeks meets alien" comedy Paul, which would have its US...

[Our thanks to Shelagh Rowan-Legg for the following.]The saying goes, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. This could be applied to the masterful cinematic combination of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost. These three individuals...

You see that there? That's the limited edition poster for Greg Motolla's sci fi comedy Paul, with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and the voice of Seth Rogen jammed into a wee little CGI alien. Created to celebrate the SXSW premiere...

Paul is coming. And he swears a lot.Greg Mottola's scifi comedy road movie Paul has released a new red-band trailer and while I still fear that this film will have the same fate as Scott Pilgrim - meaning geeks will...

I can't shake the feeling that there's a marketing problem surrounding Greg Mottola's Paul. The concept is funny. I like literally everybody involved in it. It's definitely targeting people exactly like me but ... I'm not sure. Is it trying...

While I have a creeping feeling that Greg Mottola's Paul may meet a similar fate as Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Versus The World - which is to say beloved by a vocal but ultimately fairly small group while ignored by...

The Simon Pegg and Nick Frost scripted and starring alien/buddy (or is that alien buddy?) comedy Paul now has a teaser, and while it ain't the prettiest, slickest bit of teasing, it doesn't look half bad. Adventureland's Greg Mottola helms...