The last clip I posted, before taking a week off, was Muppet-related. And now, rather than digging through all the viral marketing and other cine-centric videos I’ve missed during my vacation, here is yet another clip that is Muppet-related. The video presents a year-old performance of “Count’s First Day of School” by The Dead Hensons, [...]
If you’re a straight man and you didn’t see Sex and the City, congratulations, you’ll be receiving a certificate in the male to prove your straightness.
Pamela McClintock at Variety notes that the fact that Universal is opening two comedies in two weeks––Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Baby Mama––is a sign that the release schedule is over-crowded with comic content. Related: Judd Apatow gets yet another job.
James Schamus will adapt the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, Concert, and [...]
April 21, 2008 – 10:15 am
The porn business is going through a rough patch, and Peter Bart says it’s because flaccid penises are more compatible with a recession. Try not to hurt yourself on the double take.
Plus: exciting news for those looking to get judged by Werner Herzog.
Before the Muppet show and the Muppet movies, there were the Muppet meat commercials.
April 16, 2008 – 10:03 am
The legendary coupled critics talk feminism, Kael, and how the war on terror made the rise of Judd Apatow possible.
Does FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL’s annoying marketing campaign a sign that “viral” marketing has taken a turn for the boring? Or is the bloggy rage it’s inspiring just another hint that the bloom is somewhat off the Apatow rose?
The kid in me just spit up his mini-wheats and jumped for joy.
December 21, 2007 – 11:29 am
Unfortunately Reinhold is not actually in this movie (he’s too busy with the ‘Santa Clause’ franchise, apparently). The real title should read “Jason Segel Has Arrived!” But nobody really knows who he is yet.