Tag: Will Ferrell

Raising Arizona (1987)

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By: Abby Olcese (A Toast) - There are few directors out there who began their careers as impressively as Joel and Ethan Coen. They started off with a bang in 1987 with Blood Simple, and haven’t really quit since. That first film was a seedy, scary crime thriller. Their follow up, a mere three years


New DVD Releases: April 30th

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By: Henry J. Fromage – There are a lot of flicks hitting DVD today, including re-releases of pretty much every Star Trek flick and comedy with seven degrees of separation from Will Ferrell for some reason.  Silver Linings Playbook at least is a good buy, but for my money, there is no finer choice than


We Can’t All Be TBFCEM

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By: Henry J. Fromage – Last week, I saw a story about Will Ferrell starring in something called Tag Brothers, which got in incredibly pumped until I realized it wasn’t a sequel to The Best Freakin’ Comedy Ever Made.  Nope, instead this one will team Ferrell up with Jack Black for the first time on


MTV Movie Awards: Avengers Assembled to a Marvel – lous Treble

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By: Shaun Wren - The Avengers was the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards taking home three gongs, which included the biggest award on the night: Movie of the Year. “I am so grateful and very excited for 2015; we’re going to bring you Avengers 2” writer/director Joss Whedon confirmed when picking up his


It’s Spring, and Bromance is in the Air

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By: Henry J. Fromage – Seth Rogen and James Franco sure do like each other quite a bit.  While that hasn’t resulted in a team-up on one of the four gay porn-themed arthouse films Franco is working on at any given time, it does seem to result in quite a few comedies.  We already reported


After a Nerdgasm, Your Nerd Will Go Soft

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By: Chris Sheridan - Are you sitting down? Got a fresh pair of pants? Good, because the latest rumor out of Hollywood is that Warner Bros. has approached Christopher Nolan, director of the Dark Knight Trilogy, to helm or at least produce the Justice League movie, AND for Christian Bale to reprise his role as Batman. Nolan


Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

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Darryl M. Yo (Two Beers) - Author Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson) is writing a fiction novel about an IRS agent, Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), who lives a very mundane and lonely life. In fact, she is writing about the days leading up to his tragic yet poetic death. The only problem is Harold Crick is actually


No (2012)

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By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) - Mexican actor extraordinaire Gael Garcia Bernal has his fingers in many, many pies, from acting to producing to directing in a wide range of genres, spanning Will Ferrell comedies like Casa de Mi Padre to challenging Indie fare like The Loneliest Planet.  One particular, strangely specific genre has


The Other Guys (2010)

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By: Mitch Hansch (Three Beers) - Terry Holtz (Mark Wahlberg) and Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) are not Top Cops.  That goes to the super-cop celebs P.K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) and Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson).  Highsmith and Danson get all the big cases and all the glory that comes along with it.  When Highsmith and


Seth MacFarlane Takes a Breather

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By: Henry J. Fromage – Drive director Nicolas Windig Refn already shot next year’s Only God Forgives with his boo Ryan Gosling, but their Logan’s Run remake (and his first studio flick) fell apart shortly after that.  Could he find a new muse in an actor who recently lost his director bff under much more