Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. I finally caught up with the zeitgeist-capturing surprise blockbuster Deadpool for the Lukewarm Takes column on my website, and though I enjoyed it for the most part, it most assuredly did not live up to all the hype. How could […]
Continue ReadingNot everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so they could have the best of both worlds for their comedic purposes in IFC’s Maron and HBO’s Crashing. Similarly, when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon set about putting the […]
Continue ReadingNot everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so they could have the best of both worlds for their comedic purposes in IFC’s Maron and HBO’s Crashing. Similarly, when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon set about putting the […]
Continue Reading“I really didn’t know what I was doing when I made it. I just jumped off a cliff and hoped… MORE
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In the first Daddy’s Home movie it was Will Ferrell vs Mark Wahlberg for the top father position. Now that… MORE
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Lucia Aniello’s dark comedy Rough Night, which began life under the working title Move That Body, will face audiences and critics when it opens tomorrow. Despite the presence of Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon in the cast, the film may have a steep uphill climb ahead of it due to its grim central premise: A […]
Continue ReadingWill Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg teamed up again last year for a sequel to the 2015 comedy Daddy’s Home, and today the trailer was released. In addition to Wahlberg and Ferrell, John Cena and Linda Cardellini reprise their roles for the sequel, which still has lots of daddies who are home but this time also has […]
Continue ReadingThe Sklar Brothers have been talking a lot of shit lately. Literally. The duo are the executive producers of a new documentary about bowel movements called Poop Talk, which debuts tonight at the Lower East Side Film Festival in New York. The film is an open and earnest look at, well, pooping, featuring a ton […]
Continue ReadingThe Sklar Brothers have been talking a lot of shit lately. Literally. The duo are the executive producers of a new documentary about bowel movements called Poop Talk, which debuts tonight at the Lower East Side Film Festival in New York. The film is an open and earnest look at, well, pooping, featuring a ton […]
Continue ReadingYou can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball… The original cast of the classic comedy film, Dodgeball is… MORE
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