Articles tagged "amy sedaris"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: May 2009

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.09] :. May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

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Amy Sedaris gets ‘Closer’ to one of her favorite TV series

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Feb.09] :. Amy Sedaris says she uses intuition all the time in her daily life. She seems to sense when things are going to happen. But she had no clue that a role was written for her by the people behind the...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 4 - Feasts from the Fringe

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Oct.07] :. Cable created supply where there was little or no demand. Out of the myriad of subject specific programming, a few gemstones managed to shine.

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

 

Film Review

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

by Tricia Olszewski

[14.Sep.07] :. Instead of neuroses that are black-tinged and deep-seated, most of I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With's navel-gazing is genial to the point of being childlike.

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Dedication

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Aug.07] :. It's Henry's movie, and for all his eccentricities and fixations and rages, he's a very conventional man.

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Acting legend Julie Andrews returns in Shrek the Third

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[18.May.07] :. LOS ANGELES—PUBLICIST: “You’re not going to write that you watched the Kentucky Derby in Julie Andrews’ bedroom, are you?” JOURNALIST: “I wouldn’t do...

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Shrek the Third (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.May.07] :. Nothing looks to be ongoing so much as Shrek, except maybe the other sequel machines huffing and puffing this summer.

 

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

 
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Strangers with Candy: The Complete Series

by Daynah Burnett

[5.Jul.06] :. Not only does the humor hold up with amazing buoyancy, but it also remains edgier and more topical than most current programming on basic cable TV.

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Strangers with Candy (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[28.Jun.06] :. Jerri Blank repeatedly acts like a feral white trash child, a sort of spiteful id.

 

Strangers with Candy: The Complete Series

by Daynah Burnett

[26.Jun.06] :. Not only does the humor hold up with amazing buoyancy, but it also remains edgier and more topical than most current programming on basic cable TV.

 

My Baby’s Daddy (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jan.04] :. The high concept of My Baby's Daddy has three men and three babies trading reaction shots.

 

Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert

by Teresa DiFalco

[6.Aug.03] :. But one of the most intriguing things about Amy Sedaris is her absolute lack of vanity. A gym-toned, beauty pageant blonde, she routinely adds pimples, hairs and warts to her pretty parts, wears fatty suits around town, and gleefully contorts herself in all sorts of grody ways. She's an enigma wrapped in a satire, wrapped in mock-irony, wrapped in a spoof.

 

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Apr.03] :. Jennifer Lopez has made a lucrative habit of reprising her story in most of her fictional incarnations.

 

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.02] :. This 'ethnic' modification of 'Pretty Woman'-meets-'Working Girl' uses the 'iconic' Lopez strategically.