Some of the funniest films ever made pay tribute to that special time of transition in life between youth and adulthood. Yes, I’m talking about college—those carefree days of waking up hungover in a pile of your own vomit, only to realize you’ve missed your philosophy mid-term. Just thinking about it, I’m instantly transported back to my College of Charleston dorm room, with its painted-blue concrete walls and window that didn’t open. I’m hitting snooze because I don’t want to get up for my 2 p.m. thursday class. “Might as well skip it,” I think to myself as I roll over and start drifting back to sleep. “With the amount of time it’ll take for that ceiling fan to dry the boxers I hand-washed last night because I spent my change for the coin laundry on beer, I’ll never make it anyway.”
Let the countdown begin…
Posted on November 14th, 2008 by admin
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Hillary Clinton’s done it. So has John McCain. Sarah Palin, too, just last week. Now it seems it might be Barack Obama’s turn on Saturday Night Live, if rumors are to be believed. The junior senator from Illinois will supposedly appear on the show on Nov. 1, just in time, before the election (finally) comes to a close on Nov. 4.
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by admin
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George W. Bush is on his way out of the White House. To honor, or perhaps dishonor, our soon-to-be past president and his eight years of service, Will Ferrell is bringing his impersonation of Bush to Broadway. Titled You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush, Ferrell’s production is a one-man show written by the SNL alum and directed by his writing partner Adam McKay. It opens for previews on Jan. 20, the day Bush steps out of office, and will be available to the public from Feb. 1-Mar. 15. at the Cort Theater in New York.
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by admin
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Release Date: July 25
Director: Adam
McKay
Writers: story
by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay and John C. Reilly, screenplay by Will Ferrell
and Adam McKay
Cinematographer: Oliver
Wood
Starring: Will
Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott
Studio/Run
Time: Columbia Pictures, 95 mins.
Ever since he left his starring role on Saturday Nigh Live for superstardom in film, Will Ferrell’s many characters have
been criticized as all being pretty much the same thing. They’re overgrown children, unable to
cope with the world. Step Brothers’ strength is admitting
this and turning it around into the premise for the film. Other than childishness, there is pretty much no other aspect to his character,
Brennan Huff, or John C. Reilly’s Dale Doback, to the
point where they’re literally beaten up on a schoolyard by bullies. It’s no longer about being an overgrown child
as a racecar driver or news anchor; instead, it’s back to the
basics and better because of it.
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by admin
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“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
And here we thought that House was going to be the best treatment of Sherlock Holmes that we would ever see. If it were somehow possible to harvest the kinetic energy of a Victorian author turning in their grave because their work was being adapted into modern media, then we could stick a conduit into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s coffin and tell Al Gore to quit campaigning for renewable energy. Columbia Pictures just announced an untitled comedy film starring Sascha Baron-Cohen as Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, with the ever-present comedy maven Judd Apatow on board for production. At this rate, Sherlock Holmes is going to be to the late 2000s what the killer asteroid was to the late 1990s.
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
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