The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As a lifelong fan of Batman but only a casual reader of his DC Comics during my childhood, I confess to not knowing the canonical origin story for his greatest nemesis, The Joker. There was the movie version from 1989, in which Jack Nicholson’s criminal character gets dumped into a …
The Big Sick, written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, is based on the beginnings of their real-life romance a decade ago, but updated to today. Michael Showalter directs, with Judd Apatow and Barry Mendel producing, Zoe Kazan playing Emily, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano playing her parents, and …
Tom McCaffrey is even more of an aspiring stand-up comedian in Adventures In Comedy than he is in real-life. Or is he? Such is the journey McCaffrey enjoys and endures in this mockumentary, with interviews and advice from the likes of Margaret Cho, Jim Gaffigan, Janeane Garofalo and Aisha Tyler, …
Is this the great Chris Rock movie we’ve all been waiting for? Early reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival say Rock’s Top Five easily will be in the top five movies he has ever appeared in. The first official trailer debuted tonight at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center as part of …
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, …
In the early morning hours of July 2, 2014, the proceedings outside The Comedy Store on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip suddenly became more of a battleground than the Roast Battle happening inside it. Cops with a shotgun drawn. Another night @thecomedystore https://t.co/OnoVInctkP — Kyle Ray (@theKYLERAY) July 2, 2014 Someone called …
These Freaks and Geeks are taking their bromance to North Korea. In their upcoming comedy movie, The Interview, James Franco and Seth Rogen play celebrity tabloid producers recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un while meeting him under the guise of an exclusive interview. Do they …
What took them so long? Watch this first official movie trailer for Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber To and see what Lloyd and Harry have been up to for the past 20 years. Nice get by The Tonight Show to host and debut the clip on …
