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Fall Guide to Good TV: The Office

Thursdays at 9 p.m. on NBCThe Dunder Mifflin gang hit its stride late in Season 2 and has remained the most consistent source of laughter on television. This season, we're hoping Michael gets to officiate Jim and Pam's wedding....  read more

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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Read the Paste review of John Krasinki's directorial debut, a film adaptation of a book by the late David Foster Wallace...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: The Office Webisodes

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Even the studios stopped denying several years back that television’s not doing so hot. Having atrophied viewership due to the internet and video games, the medium’s no longer the one stop free-entertainment shop it used to be, meaning that if people in the industry want to keep their jobs, they’d best think up ways to tap into these newfound interwebs to keep their advertising from drying up completely....  read more

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Watch the Trailer for John Krasinski's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has a ridiculous pedigree, what with the David Foster Wallace source material and a cast that includes Will Arnett, Julianne Nicholson, Timothy Hutton, Dominic Cooper, Bobby Cannavale and Will Forte. It’s also backed by indie superdistributor IFC Films and marks the directorial debut of winsome Office star John Krasinski. As we might expect, then, the movie’s first trailer is brisk and droll, easy to watch and easier to like....  read more

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Away We Go

In a blind taste test of the charming new film...  read more

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More Details Surface About Sam Mendes' Away We Go

The information keeps pouring in about director Sam Mendes' previously untitled film, which, we now know, will be called Away We Go. ...  read more

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The Office's Jenna Fischer gets A Little Help

Many of the actors on beloved hit show The Office can...  read more

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Leatherheads

Release Date: Sept. 23Director: George ClooneyWriters: Duncan Brantley, Rick Reilly Producers: Grant Heslov, Casey Silver Starring: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski
Studio/Run Time: Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 114 mins.Silly comedy about football's beginnings kinda swell, thanks to ClooneySay, George Clooney's got a lotta moxie, giving us this slapsticky movie about an aging football player's hail-mary attempt to save his rag-tag 1925 team and bring fame and fans to the fledgling professional sport. He's the cat's pajamas as Jimmy "Dodge" Connolly, all rumpled and dapper in his newsboy cap, three-piece suit and soft smirks. It's hard to understand how Renée Zellweger—as...  read more

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