Articles tagged "paul rudd"

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

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‘Monsters’ voice role a first for Reese Witherspoon

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Mar.09] :. Animation offers a world of different challenges for actors. Tools like body movement, facial expressions and hand gestures are no longer available to sell a scene. At the same time, animation...

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‘Monsters vs. Aliens’ tops weekend box office

by MarketWatch [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[30.Mar.09] :. The 3-D animated film “Monsters vs. Aliens” was easily the top draw at U.S. movie theaters this weekend, bringing in some $58.2 million through Sunday morning, according to studio...

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Monsters vs. Aliens

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[27.Mar.09] :. Monsters vs. Aliens is both a spoof and celebration of mid-century creature features, offering positive, if well-worn, "messages for the kids."

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Q&A with Paul Rudd and John Hamburg of ‘I Love You, Man’

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[22.Mar.09] :. DALLAS - Paul Rudd and John Hamburg, star and writer/director respectively of the man-crush comedy “I Love You, Man” (opening Friday), are joshing around near the lobby of the...

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Short Ends and Leader

‘Man’ Made Out of the Same Old…Stuff

by Bill Gibron

[20.Mar.09] :. Imagine Manhattan with the post-modern existential quips removed and fart jokes added. Visualize an ‘80s or ‘90s sweet as sugar RomCom with all the subtlety sliced out and lots of...

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I Love You, Man

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[20.Mar.09] :. I Love You, Man is a buddy flick worked out as a chick flick, complete with makeovers, bonding montages, a break-up and make-up.

Paul Rudd and Jason Siegel continue their ‘bromance’ in ‘I Love You, Man’

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[16.Mar.09] :. They met, and as the poets say, the sparks flew. “He and I clicked pretty quickly back when we did ‘Knocked Up,’” Paul Rudd recalls, wistfully. “Truthfully, we crossed...

Role Models: Unrated (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[7.Mar.09] :. Ever since a certain Mr. Apatow introduced us to a middle aged man child with limited sexual experience, the motion picture comedy has been flooded with what could best be described as...

Wainy Days Are Here Again (video)

by Thomas Britt

[5.Mar.09] :. David Wain—the rarely disputed king of absurd comedy—is having a busy month. According to his (always-entertaining) blog, he’s currently shooting new episodes of his series Wainy...

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

Role Models

by Bill Gibron

[26.Nov.08] :. Ever since a certain Mr. Apatow introduced us to a middle aged man child with limited sexual experience, the motion picture comedy has been flooded with what could best be described as...

Role Models

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Nov.08] :. Role Models invites you to celebrate "fantasy world where anything is possible", at least if you're a boy in need of approval.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Three-Disc Unrated Collector’s Edition)

by J.M. Suarez

[13.Oct.08] :. A better than average romantic comedy, despite a plot with few surprises, this owes a great deal of its success to Segal and the sincerity he brings to his character.

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

Over Her Dead Body

by Barbara Herman

[22.May.08] :. Its humor is, to put it kindly, unsophisticated, and forms the backdrop to a love story that feels like being stuck on an awkward first date.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Apr.08] :. In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Rachel is initially uninterested in Peter's story. It is, after all, the same story, again.

Over Her Dead Body

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Feb.08] :. The premise of Over Her Dead Body is Eva Longoria Parker, dead.

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

The Ten

by Stuart Henderson

[14.Jan.08] :. A high-speed collision between Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and Woody Allen’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex.

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

Oh, baby! 2007 gave birth to a brood of pregnancy comedies

by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[20.Dec.07] :. In “Juno,” the new, life-affirming teen pregnancy comedy, our spunky 16-year-old heroine is aghast to learn she’s been knocked up. “I was thinking I’d just nip it in the...

Knocked Up

by Andrew Gilstrap

[26.Sep.07] :. Taken as a straightforward comedy, Knocked Up is extremely satisfying. Taken as a more serious meditation on adulthood and priorities, though . . .

The Ten

by Jesse Hassenger

[7.Aug.07] :. Despite the sight gags, recurring characters, amusing references, and genuine chuckles it elicits, The Ten is more exercise than tour de force.

Diggers (2007)

by Shaun Huston

[30.Jul.07] :. Diggers is a small, flawed gem of a film.

Reno 911!  - Miami (2007)

by Michael Buening

[9.Jul.07] :. Rather than continue to play off their stock traits, the writers and cast of Reno 911!: Miami should have used the new locale to reveal deeper abysses of their ineptitude and richer shadings of their hypocrisies.

TV geek Seth Rogen becomes a movie star

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[1.Jun.07] :. If you’re perplexed to hear that this summer’s break out movie star is a 24-year-old, self-described “Canadian Jew” who ends almost every sentence with a donkey-bray laugh,...

With Judd Apatow’s films and TV shows, familiarity breeds hilarity

by Stephen Becker [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[1.Jun.07] :. If practice really does make perfect, then Knocked Up should be just about the perfect comedy. Writer and director Judd Apatow’s follow-up to 2005’s funniest movie—The...

Knocked Up (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Jun.07] :. While the Pete and Ben romance is based in their similarities, their most moving discovery is their unconditional devotion to the differences embodied by girls.

Night at the Museum (2006)

by Bill Gibron

[16.May.07] :. A digital love letter to the fine art of F/X, a celebration of promotion and publicity, and a lot of misguided arrogance.

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.

Night at the Museum (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.06] :. Worried that his dad's dreams are getting in the way of his present life, Nicky asks, "What if you're just an ordinary guy, who should get a job?"

The OH in Ohio (2006)

by Marisa Carroll

[14.Jul.06] :. The main problem with The OH in Ohio is that most of its hijinks seem cribbed from episodes of Sex and the City -- and we're talking Season Two.

Clueless: Whatever! Edition (1995)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Aug.05] :. When I first read I just thought, this is funny. This was by the lady who directed Fast Times and apparently they had the girl from the Aerosmith videos in it.

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

by Samantha Bornemann

[26.Aug.05] :. Here, a one-note title evolves into a 3-D landscape of guffaws and awws.

Runaway Daughters (1994)

by Steve Horowitz

[14.Apr.05] :. It is your basic road movie, tracking three teenage girls who fake being kidnapped, steal a car, and skip town.

Anchorman—The Legend of Ron Burgundy Giftset (2004)

by Dan Devine

[10.Jan.05] :. Will Ferrell's comedy is escapism as abstract art, a breathless retreat into the frenetic headspace of a 12-year-old boy.

p.s. (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.04] :. Simultaneously affectionate, startled, yearning, and anxious, Laura Linney and Topher Grace make awkwardness into art.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Jul.04] :. Sputtering, Ron cites scientific fact to support his outrage: 'You're just a woman, with a small brain.'"

The Shape of Things (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.03] :. This version of Neil LaBute's ongoing project is crisp and aggressive, occasionally alienating or annoying, that is, effectively unlike other movies.

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

by Stephen Tropiano

As both a parody and a 'straight' summer camp comedy, 'Wet Hot American Summer' has little to offer even the most die-hard crude comedy fans.