Larry Charles

Features

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

By Bill Gibron

What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience. [10 September 2008]

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

By PopMatters Staff

For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product. [11 January 2007]

Reviews

Brüno

By Renee Scolaro Mora

In Brüno, most of the stunts feel staged, more like The Hills than Cultural Learnings. [10 July 2009]

Religulous

By Cynthia Fuchs

Certainty grants Bill Maher an easy target, especially as he is, he says, selling doubt: "That's my product." [3 October 2008]

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

By Emma Simmonds

Borat is a comedy of errors, in more than one sense, but certainly not one without merit. [12 April 2007]

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Borrowing from Andy Kaufman, John Waters, and Steve-O, Borat delights in irreverence and abuse. [3 November 2006]

Blogs

Short Ends and Leader: Brüno (2009): Blu-ray

All Brüno has is its hit or miss nature, and for the most part, the targets are too easy and often sideswiped instead of struck head on. [14 November 2009]

Short Ends and Leader: ‘Brüno’ Beleagured by Same Old Shtick

Ridiculing American rubes is like shooting dead, motionless fish in a barrel filled with Jell-O. The only "genius" involved is getting the public to buy it as scandal. [10 July 2009]

Short Ends and Leader: ‘Religulous’ Mocks the Mockable