In a summer full of movies we’ve seen before in some form, “Bad Counselors” is nothing more than a novelty: a movie with a faith-based message disguised as a frat farce, complete with PG-13 yocks and a cameo from an “American Pie” alum. Well, “masking” may be unfair. Chris Dowling’s film is earnest in its
Norwegian director Vegard Dahle’s zombie comedy “Grandmonster” won the top Outpost award and a post-production services award at Fantasia Festival’s prestigious Frontières Co-Production Market, which handed out six awards at its closing cocktail party on July 25. The film, about an American dropout who unwittingly triggers a zombie outbreak in a remote Norwegian nursing home
Vanessa Marano, a prolific actress known for her starring and guest roles in numerous notable television series throughout the 2000s, will produce and star in the wedding party horror comedy “Ring Leader.” Marano is producing the film through his American production company Calabrian Rhode, behind the 2022 Netflix original romantic comedy “The Royal Treatment,” which
TLC in the UK has ordered a Top Trumps themed panel to be hosted by comedian Katherine Ryan. Based on the card game and tentatively titled “Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack,” it will see Ryan in charge of proceedings as team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson battle it out with classic card showdowns, live
Sophie Simnett, the rising British star best known for the Netflix post-apocalyptic comedy-drama “Daybreak” and the British crime film “Twist,” will star alongside writer-actor Jack Whittle (“Tony!”) in “The Candidate.” The film is a black and white silent comedy with a dance interlude, described as being in the style of Chaplin’s film era. “The Candidate”
I’m a child of the 2000s (and specifically San Diego), which is to say that Will Ferrell’s work (and specifically “Anchorman”) is deeply important to me. Star vehicles like “Step Brothers” and “Talladega Nights”; Also, did I mention “Anchorman”? – epitomized the bravado and blissful ignorance of Bush-era masculinity, in some ways even more so