‘Funny People’: over-extended ‘Entourage’ episode?
Movies and television have become so mashed together that when you see a lousy formula film in a theater now, you can’t use that old putdown — “it’s like TV.” With the older audience more or less...
View Article‘Too Fat for 40′: Kevin Smith kicks himself when he’s down
As I watched a preview copy of “Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40” the other night I couldn’t figure out if it was a comedy special or a cry for help. The show debuts as a video-on-demand option on EPIX...
View ArticleEmma Stone in VF: the return of the bathing suit competition
The surface style of the movie star profiles in the glossy magazines has changed fairly radically in the last few years. In an apparent attempt to keep up with reality television and the new fake...
View Article‘Diner': the 1982 classic that was saved by a film critic
Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman made an often quoted statement about Hollywood that it’s a business in which “Nobody knows anything.” Hits can’t be manufactured by computers and focus groups...
View Article‘2 Autumns, 3 Winters’: charming but daring romantic comedy
Romantic comedy seems to be dead in this country — leaving a whole slew of young actresses exiled from the multiplexes — but judging by “2 Autumns, 3 Winters” the genre is alive and well in France....
View Article‘Sick in the Head’: a gift from Judd Apatow
Before he was a TV and movie writer-director-producer, Judd Apatow was a slightly crazed fan of comedy who, working on a high school radio station on Long Island, managed to snag interviews with stars...
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