Articles tagged "dane cook"

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Dane Cook’s newest stand-up routines draw on personal pain

by Julie Hinds [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[19.Jun.09] :. Dane Cook knows that people love him, especially his army of fans on the Web. He’s got more than 2.5 million friends on MySpace, and more than 470,000 followers on Twitter. But he also...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

News

Doctored by Hollywood: Seuss books have had ups, downs in Tinseltown

by John Monaghan [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[14.Mar.08] :. Though Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) was involved with moviemaking during his days with Frank Capra’s Armed Forces Motion Picture unit during World War II, he was wary about the way his work...

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Film Review

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Mar.08] :. All the conventional plotting in Horton Hears a Who! needn't overwhelm the more important point, that "a person's a person, no matter how small."

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jan.08] :. PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

Music Review

Dane Cook: Rough Around the Edges

by Alan Ranta

[11.Jan.08] :. Dane Cook's third album of no-brow frat comedy is a monument to Cook's enormous ego, willful ignorance, and mob mentality. Don't confuse hype for talent.

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Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.

 

Dan in Real Life

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Oct.07] :. Dan's behavior is increasingly creepy -- possessive, obsessive, and utterly self-centered.

 

Good Luck Chuck

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Sep.07] :. Who are these people? It's hard to look at the cavorting and cruelty in Good Luck Chuck and not wonder whether you've dropped into an alternate universe.

 

The Movie Masochist: Television for women and serial killers

by James Franklin [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[14.Jun.07] :. If you have cable, you’ve probably seen programs on (or commercials for) Lifetime TV, the network that once marketed itself as “television for women.” This designation apparently...

 

Costner ignores naysayers, embraces challenges of ‘Mr. Brooks’

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[3.Jun.07] :. A lot of people thought that Kevin Costner should have passed on “Mr. Brooks.” You’re playing a serial killer, they said, and your fans won’t like that. It’s a small,...

 

Mr. Brooks (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Jun.07] :. Even as you're wondering just how tedious the movie might get, William Hurt pops up to offer his snarky, sniffy version of "advice," and Mr. Brooks turns into something else.

 

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

 

Windy City Heat (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[10.Oct.06] :. Perry boasts a killer DeNiro impression, insisting that "people magnetize towards my look." That look? Balding, overweight, fanny-packed with questionable hygiene.

 

Dave Attell’s Insomniac Tour Presents: Sean Rouse, Greg Giraldo and Dane Cook

by Daniel Carlson (Rating: 6; Extras: 3)

[10.Apr.06] :. Sean Rouse's jokes hit on themes the others will echo: drinking is fun; crystal meth is fun to joke about; masturbation is always on a man's mind; the existence of God is doubtful.