By
Tim Basham
on November 25, 2008 5:00 PM|Permalink
2 Days in Paris
Release Date: Nov. 26
Director: Seth Gordon
Writers: Matt Allen, Caleb
Wilson, Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Cinematographer: Jeffrey L.
Kimball
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese
Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Mary
Steenburgen
Studio/Running Time: New Line
Cinema, 82 mins.
Proving that quantity does not equal
quality, director Seth Gordon (The King of Kong) presents Four
Christmases, a weak, soulless holiday film in spite of its inclusion of five previous Oscar winners.
By
Steve LaBate
on November 14, 2008 12:20 PM|Permalink
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."
By
Alissa Wilkinson
on February 12, 2008 10:37 AM|Permalink
The funny guys tour America
Release Date: Feb. 8 (limited) Director: Ari Sandel Starring: Vince Vaughn, Ahmed Ahmed, Bret Ernst, John Caparulo, Sebastian Maniscalco, Justin Long, Keir O’Donnell Studio/Run Time: Picturehouse, 110 mins.
In the fall of 2005, actor/comedian Vince Vaughn decided to take four other comedians (Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, Sebastian Maniscalco) and a motley band of guests on the road for Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show, 30 nights of stand-up comedy across America. He also took a film crew to document the experience. Starting in Hollywood, the group works its way eastward, performing each night for sold-out crowds and encountering hecklers, local celebrities, screaming sorority girls, refugees from Hurricane Katrina, and its own roots.
Vaughn, the most recognizable of the bunch, doesn’t hog the screen. Instead, we see the ups and downs of the performers’ mental states as they work the crowd, rant off-stage, tell their life stories in bits and pieces, and bemoan the state of American standup comedy. The film plays more as a home video than a documentary, but injected with live performances and local flair in the heartland of America, it’s still relatively fun.
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