I Love You, Man

Thanks to the success of Judd Apatow comedies, many of the actors in his unofficial repertory company have parlayed their memorable supporting roles into starring turns in their own films. Case in point: Paul Rudd (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Jason Segel... 

The Ten

Since The State broke up in 1995, fans of MTV’s answer to Saturday Night Live have been hoping for a reunion and the group has come close with Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and now The Ten (2007), a satire of the Ten Commandments. Imagine Krzysztof... 

Night at the Museum

With the escalating budgets of tent-pole Hollywood studio films, the big budget comedy is an endangered species. Several recent ones with big movie stars attached have been scuttled because of their large budgets and the fear that they will be unable... 

The Baxter

The Baxter (2005) is about a nice guy named Elliot Sherman (Showalter). He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t get the girl in the movies. He reads the Dictionary for fun and is an accountant by trade (working for the second best firm in New York City no... 

The 40-Year-Old Virgin: Unrated

Thanks to small, but memorable roles in Bruce Almighty (2003) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), comedian Steve Carell is poised for mainstream success and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) might be just the film to do it. It is a movie tailored... 

Clueless: “Whatever!” Edition

It’s amazing to think that Clueless (1995) is ten years old. This teenage remake of the Jane Austen novel Emma went on to influence what a generation of kids wore and said and launched the careers of several young actors. It presented a hyper-real world... 

P.S.

Filmmaker Dylan Kidd proved with his debut feature, Rodger Dodger (2002), that he was an adept observer of human behaviour. He has a keen eye on how people interact with one another. Where his first film featured an unsympathetic and often unlikable protagonist,...