Just in time for back-to-school comes “The House Bunny,” which won’t teach you anything new or useful, but it will prepare you for sorority rush.
Well, its depiction of Greek life isn’t all that accurate either, but that’s beside the point. The entire purpose of this late-summer comedy is to serve as a showcase for Anna [...]

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Starring Drake Bell, Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, and Sara Paxton. Written and directed by Craig Mazin. 85 minutes. At major theatres. 14A
The painfully unfunny Superhero Movie may have one superlative to its name: the longest stretch of flatulence ever heard in a film.Come to think of it, this could also be used to describe the [...]

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Starring Drake Bell, Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, and Sara Paxton. Written and directed by Craig Mazin. 85 minutes. At major theatres. 14A
The painfully unfunny Superhero Movie may have one superlative to its name: the longest stretch of flatulence ever heard in a film.Come to think of it, this could also be used to describe the [...]

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LOS ANGELES Paramount Pictures chief Brad Grey testified Thursday that he did not know a private eye allegedly used illegal tactics while working on a lawsuit filed against his company by comedian Garry Shandling.
Grey testified briefly in the federal wiretapping trial of Hollywood sleuth Anthony Pellicano and four other defendants. All have pleaded not [...]

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It’s not quite a drinking game, but the best way %26#8212; the last way %26#8212; to get any fun out of that exhausted “movie genre spoof” is to count the number of films the latest Scary Movie/Epic Movie sends up. Then count the laughs. If the latter outnumbers the former, you’re golden.
No such luck with [...]

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Jill Grey cited irreconcilable differences in her Superior Court filing Tuesday. The Greys have an 18-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter. Brad Grey became chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Pictures in 2005, tasked with reviving Paramount after the studio struggled through several box-office flops under previous leadership. His producing credits include the [...]

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“Meet the Spartans, a spoof of epic gladiator flicks (as well as other pop culture reference points), coming Jan. 25, is from the makers of “Epic Movie,” last year’s riff on other epic movies. The same people worked on the “Scary Movie” franchise (which nailed scary movies) as well as “Date Movie” (a parody of [...]

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Coach Fields (David Koechner) tries to lead a losing football team to victory while one of the players (Matthew Lawrence) romances the coach’s daughter (Brooke Nevin), in this sports movie send-up.Big question: Is this any better than the recent string of laugh-free parodies (think: Epic [...]

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PICK OF THE WEEK: Horror-movie-paloozaIn case you haven’t heard, Halloween is right around the corner. And that means a bonanza of horror films hitting DVD.The entire month has seen plenty of genre titles, [...]

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Few big-studio movies that are lavishly promoted and favorably reviewed arrive dead on arrival at the box office. But “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan’s volcanically funny spoof of musical biopics like “Coal Miner’s Daughter” failed to attract audiences from its first showings a week ago.
Could it be that audiences [...]

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