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Culture Warrior: Not-so-Funny People Don’t let the obvious title fool you–Landon actually enjoyed Judd Apatow’s latest, and this week’s Culture Warrior explores the virtues of an unfunny movie about funny people. By Landon Palmer on August 3, 2009 | Comments |
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Funny People: Get Ready to Laugh Your Dick Off Judd Apatow’s, Adam Sandler starring, Funny People is nearing release, and as such, the online presence is stepping up. In this case we have a website. By David Baxter on July 2, 2009 | Comments |
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Culture Warrior: Bromance and its Predecessors With this weekend’s release of I Love You, Man, the recent trend of comedies centered on platonic male relationships—the ‘bromance’—is articulated to its furthest extent thus far, taking the traditional genre formula of the romantic comedy and replacing the traditional male-female love story with two heterosexual males. While this trend of celebrating intimate male friendships is pervasive and seemingly wholly new in mainstream American comedies, the determining predecessors for this trend, and its balance of male and female characters, contains roots in canonical films of 1960s and 70s New Hollywood. By Landon Palmer on March 21, 2009 | Comments |
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Judd Apatow Named Comedy Person of the Year According to Yahoo! news, Judd Apatow, who has become a juggernaut of comedies in the last three years with films like Knocked Up, The 40-Year Old Virgin and Superbad will be honored as Comedy Person of the Year at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, July 10-20. By Nate Deen on April 9, 2008 | Comments |
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Sexy Starlets: Fred Claus’ Elizabeth Banks Elizabeth Banks has been a crazy nymph, a sarcastic Daily Bugle secretary and now a sexy Santa helper. But in this series of pictures, she is NSFW for sure. By Neil Miller on November 10, 2007 | Comments |