The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The on-again off-again Richard Pryor biopic finally looks like a go, with Lee Daniels directing, Pryor’s widow Jennifer producing along with Oprah, and Mike Epps playing the iconic stand-up comedian. Epps, 43, posed with Jennifer Lee Pryor on Sunday, and wrote @TheRealMikeEpps: “Had to kiss the ring of @jennferLpryor (sic) for …
You want to be able to quote his inspirational movie lines back to him, to step on a desk and shout to him, “O Captain! My Captain!” You want to be able to hug him close and tight and never let go, telling him, “It’s not your fault.” And then …
This is a cute and enriching thing Entertainment Weekly put out earlier this month, collecting character actors normally relegated to “That Guy from That Thing” roles and letting them stand up for their right to star as big-budget blockbuster superheroes. Thanks to Chris Pratt’s star turn in the fun Guardians …
Netflix has premiered and or distributed dozens of new stand-up comedy specials over the past year and a half, including recent performances from Doug Stanhope, Aziz Ansari, Eddie Pepitone, Nick Thune, Matt Braunger, Iliza Shlesinger, Morgan Murphy, Christian Finnegan, Myq Kaplan, Shane Mauss, Jasper Redd, Moshe Kasher, Dan Cummins and …
When is a movie about The Office not an Office movie? When Ricky Gervais says it is? The BBC and Gervais announced Tuesday that they’re collaborating on a movie imagining his David Brent character in his life 15 years after leaving the paper company he managed in the fictional BBC …
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its slate of world premieres, gala screenings and more this morning, and both Jon Stewart’s directorial debut as well as Chris Rock’s latest both will make their world premieres there this September. Rosewater rose straight from a guest’s appearance on The Daily Show with …
The Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal has named Andy Samberg, Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, Michael Schur, Nathan Fielder and Bill Burr as its major award-winning honorees for 2014. Their individual honors: Andy Samberg: Comedy Person of the Year Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg: Comedy Directors of the Year …
Want to see Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig play twins who haven’t seen nor spoken to each other in 10 years, reunite? That’s the essence of The Skeleton Twins, the new film directed and co-written by Craig Johnson with Mark Heyman. It co-stars Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell and Boyd Holbrook. …
Bill Murray is back in a leading role with the titular role in St. Vincent, a new coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Theodore Melfi. In it, Murray plays a curmudgeonly war veteran enlisted by his new neighbor (Melissa McCarthy) to babysit her young son. Lessons are learned all …
The Fourth of July weekend isn’t just a big holiday for seeing new blockbuster movies, but also for releasing trailers to excite you movie-goers for Thanksgiving, Christmas and even next year. So Warner Bros. gives us the first official teaser of Horrible Bosses 2, because you couldn’t expect Jason Bateman, …
