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The Goods
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"Piven finally finds a vehicle where he can play to his strengths. After the problems with Smoking Aces and his other recent feature attempts, Jeremy Piven wisely chose a role that audiences can accept him in. The Ari Gold typecasting works in Piven's favor with The Goods. The script is full of hystercal gags and funny jokes. There are plenty of lame stabs in the comedic dark, but when every scene has a funny moment, you can't help but walk away with a satisfied smile. I don't believe that I've ever seen a film with the sheer number of jokes and gags that The Goods offers. Piven is perfectly cast as the maestro of car salesmen. Will Ferrell makes another gut-busting cameo as his dead best friend. James Brolin and David Koechner have a hysterical storyline of unrequited bi-curious love. But the scene stealer of this romp is Kathryn Hahn in a portrayal of a sex-starved sales seductress. It's not Wedding Crashers, 40-year Old Virgin, or Old School, but it's definitely in the strong sec ... "
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420 Hangover Cures
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"It’s mostly a blur. At some point, there was someone’s house. One guy was laying on the floor with a tiny dog licking his face while he giggled uncontrollably. A friend of a friend was picked up and creeping everybody out, and Heather Graham might have called the police on him. That is when I left. Was that my bachelor party or someone else’s? Or, was I watching The Hangover? In comic book jargon, it is the gutter. That blank space between the sequence of images that allows your brain to fill in the gaps. Your imagination searches through the universe of possibilities based on the visible evidence. The Hangover translates this to the "
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10 Underrated College Movies
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"I never went to a normal college, never lived in a proper dorm or experienced fraternity hazing or even rush week from an inside viewpoint. I went to an urban art school and then a commuter school. And though I grew up in a college town and later worked on the campus of another college I didn’t attend, I feel like I don’t have the proper perspective with which to judge most college movies and college kid characters as being true to life. This probably explains why I enjoy so many bad movies set in colleges and/or involving college students. I bet I could even check out a double feature of The House Bunny and College and have a good time at the movies. Of course, I do have some semblance of good taste, and I also recognize that none of the following movies are anywhere near the quality of my favorite college movies (including Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, the Marx Brothers’
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A 'Step' in the wrong direction
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"I get the whole arrested development-style of comedy invading theaters of late. “Old School” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” really opened wide the door of such man-boy-based humor. So it was only logical that the star of the former and the director of the latter get together to produce yet another trip to Neverland, where modern-day Peter Pans can dance with their Lost Boy compadres. The result is “Step Brothers,” which teams Will Ferrell with John C. Reilly as two men in their 40s whose remora-like existence is severed when their single parents decide to marry. Where Judd Apatow's “Virgin's” lead was more of an introverted geek who otherwise led a normal, self-sufficient life by societal standards, Ferrell and Reilly play two infantile sluggards whose puerile, petulant behavior and refusal to let go of their parents' proverbial hands would cause Oedipus himself to proclaim, “Man, those guys are messed up!” &nbs "
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"One of the earliest Frat Pack films. Will Ferrell has a prominent supporting role and really makes this movie. As a former fraternity guy myself I was intrigued with the idea of guys in their 30’s diving into that partying lifestyle, although in reality there’s no way a 35 year old man can party like he did when he was 19 or 20. Trust me. "
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Andy Dick Exposes Teen’s Breast ...
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"Is it just me, or does Andy Dick’s mug shot from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department look like a head shot from a Joker audition? Suddenly his part in Old School as Barry the Oral Sex Instructor is a lot less funny. For anyone who doesn’t know Andy Dick was arrested this morning at 1:13 am for exposing a 17-year-old girl’s breasts outside of a Buffalo Wild Wings (yes, Buffalo Wild Wings) in Murrieta, CA. Police were investigating a call about “an intoxicated male” urinating outside the restaurant. It was then, a police statement says, that Dick approached the girl and pulled down her tank top and bra. But really? Is anybody shocked? It’s like the fake gasps that Pee Wee Herman masturbated at a theater. I’d be more surprised if a year went by without some Andy Dick genital story (no pun intended). The actor has reportedly exposed himself to audiences twice, was arrested for cocaine and marijuana possession in 1999, and in Feb., 2007 was forced from the set of the “Jimmy Kimme ... "
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NYUFF Opens Tonight
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"The 15th edition of the New York Underground Film Festival opens tonight with a film we’ve covered extensively since its Toronto premiere, Suroosh Alvy and Eddy Moretti’s Heavy Metal in Baghdad. The fest runs through April 8, and when it’s over, it’s over: though co-directors Kevin McGarry and Nellie Killian are said to be working on mounting a new event with a similar spirit, the NYUFF as we know it will cease to exist after this run. Ed Halter ran the festival for ten years, taking it over for co-founder and future Old School director Todd Phillips (yes, seriously). Halter has an obit of sorts at the Village Voice, in which he makes it clear that NYUFF isn’t ending because it has to financially. “It’s a conscious decision: There’s no rent hike to point to, no defunding agency to blame…True to its indie-rock genealogy, the NYUFF has always functioned more like a band than a traditional arts organization…Sometimes, a band just decides to call it quits—and hopes to go out in style, ... "
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"The 15th edition of the New York Underground Film Festival opens tonight with a film we’ve covered extensively since its Toronto premiere, Suroosh Alvy and Eddy Moretti’s Heavy Metal in Baghdad. The fest runs through April 8, and when it’s over, it’s over: though co-directors Kevin McGarry and Nellie Killian are said to be working on mounting a new event with a similar spirit, the NYUFF as we know it will cease to exist after this run. Ed Halter ran the festival for ten years, taking it over for co-founder and future Old School director Todd Phillips (yes, seriously). Halter has an obit of sorts at the Village Voice, in which he makes it clear that NYUFF isn’t ending because it has to financially. “It’s a conscious decision: There’s no rent hike to point to, no defunding agency to blame…True to its indie-rock genealogy, the NYUFF has always functioned more like a band than a traditional arts organization…Sometimes, a band just decides to call it quits—and hopes to go out in style, ... "
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The Nines': Know thyself
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"A brief, deliberately vague review of 'The Nines' I have always been interested in this philosophical concept, as well as Plato's 'Cave Parable, 'which has been worked into some of my most re-watched cinematic outings of the past few years (The Matrix, Fight Club, Old School -- OK, maybe not that last one).As a writer, I love the kind of Charlie Kauffman-lite vibe this film has going for it, much like 'Stranger Than Fiction,' but I think much more complex. Ryan Reynolds, who I know many are hot-and-cold over, really displays some heretofore untapped range in three separate roles. Hope Davis is always a welcome addition to any film, but --wow -- where did Melissa McCarthy come from? Have not seen a "
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Old School
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"Old School In this comedy, a thirty-year old businessman comes home early from a sales convention to find his wife just getting started on an orgy. To console him, his three buddies help him rent and house-warm an old house on the edge of campus. The guys sort of return to their ways of old, or what they wished the old days had been like, or what they could make the old days now that they have a decade of acumen, or what is as much like the old days as the young people will allow--with what I thought were hilarious results. The most memorable image is of Will Ferrell streaking to the stadium oblivious to the fact that no one from the party is following him and that his new wife is driving by in the car.Jim Bell "
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