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Review: THE COMEDIAN, Not Very Funny Despite Its Title

There is a very fine performance embedded in Taylor Hackford’s otherwise enervating, overlong, patience-trying, and not very funny film The Comedian. However, that performance is not delivered by the putative headliner, Robert De Niro. He plays Jackie Burke, a comic who once starred in a...

Now on DVD: THE BEST OF THE ORIGINAL AN EVENING AT THE IMPROV, Reliving The 80s, One Comedian At A Time

Debuting in the fall of 1982 on the A&E television network, An Evening at the Improv featured a variety of stand-up comics doing their routines before an audience at a Los Angeles comedy club. Now 12 hours of material from...

AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks THE HEAT, WHITE HOUSE DOWN, MONSTERS U and WORLD WAR Z

After being bumped last week due to flooding in Alberta, we're back with a Canada Day chat about Paul Feig's buddy cop movie, The Heat, the lesser of the two Die Hard-in-the-Capital films White House Down, and last week's big...

Review: MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Reunites Us with Old Friends

College is often a time of growth and development for people, and it's evidently no different for monsters. In Monsters University, Mike Wazowski, the spherical lime-green cyclops voiced by Billy Crystal, faces the important question of whether he is scary...

Final Trailer For Pixar's MONSTERS UNIVERSITY

I will confess to having a soft spot for Pixar's Monsters Inc. As the first film that The Boy ever really fixated on it is a film that I have seen literally dozens of times - during several screenings of...

SMALL APARTMENTS, Big Cast, Off-beat Trailer

Premiering last spring at SXSW, Jonas Akerlund's Small Apartments garnered decent buzz as a starring vehicle for British comedian Matt Lucas then went on its merry way to a string of other festivals, but hasn't really been heard from much...

Here Are Four Versions Of The First Teaser Trailer For Pixar's MONSTERS UNIVERSITY!

Mike and Sulley are back (and so are Billy Crystal and John Goodman)! The sequel to Monsters, Inc. is coming in June next year, and Pixar has just released 4 versions of the first teaser trailer (via Pixar's YouTube Channel, Apple,...