The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Forget your 15 minutes of fame, and now forget trying for six looping seconds of social media stardom. R.I.P. Vine. Twitter announced today it will discontinue Vine, the mobile app it acquired. The website will remain active, though, as will all of the six-second videos you’ve made for it. At …
Alamo Drafthouse, a 25-location chain of movie theaters based in Austin that prides itself on offering high-quality food with their movie offerings (and has expanded to include its own festival, Fantastic Fest, and entertainment website, Birth.Movies.Death), is celebrating the grand opening of its newest location in downtown Brooklyn this weekend …
In just its opening weekend, Kevin Hart‘s third concert film already has beaten both the box-office debut of his previous stand-up film, 2013’s Let Me Explain, as well as the overall haul from his first such effort, 2011’s Laugh at My Pain. What Now? Indeed. With $12.6 million and counting …
How selfish could Vivendi and StudioCanal be over the profits from 32 years of This Is Spinal Tap? The answer is none. None more selfish. Harry Shearer, who created the fictional yet real metal band Spinal Tap alongside comedians Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, then brought it to life with …
In case you missed it last night, Fathom Events will screen Young Frankenstein, the classic big-screen favorite by director Mel Brooks with the late greats Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman and Madeline Kahn, plus Teri Garr — with a new introduction by Brooks — one more night, Oct. 18, …
Just a month before Election Day 2016, the Alamo Drafthouse movie chain is giving Idiocracy a bigger 10-year anniversary screening party than the movie’s studio did when it first came out in 2006. As they put it: Ten years ago, satirist Mike Judge told of an impossible future in which …
Gene Wilder, the wonderfully witty actor who shined in several Mel Brooks films and captivated children of all ages as Willy Wonka, has died from complications with Alzheimer’s. Wilder was 83. Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wilder took his stage name as a young adult, although he showed interest in …
“Our movie is good. We don’t need this.” That’s the message behind this humorous inception-level meta exercise in publicity, as Mike Birbiglia and the cast of his wonderful new movie, Don’t Think Twice, battle their own personal demons, the virus of “viral videos” that prompts them to lash out at …
Enough people have compared the state of our 2016 presidential campaign with the 2006 film Idiocracy that its filmmakers decided to write some new copy for future “President Camacho,” but all of your advance spin on it scared off both the actor who’d star in the videos and the studio …
Thirteen years have passed since Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox brought Bad Santa and his little helper into movie theaters near you. Now they’re back in Bad Santa 2, in which they attempt to rip off a Chicago charity. Even “the kid” is back, Brett Kelly all grown up …
