April 17, 2015
When comics improv in movies you need a kick ass editor to make the timing work.
March 16, 2015
The new action comedy from director Paul Feig and starring Melissa McCarthy had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on Sunday.
March 12, 2015
Out of "2 Broke Girls", "Mike & Molly" and Mom, which of these CBS sitcoms have been renewed for another season?
March 10, 2015
For years, it seemed like the world would never get another "Ghostbusters" movie. Now, Sony can't stop planning them. In addition, to the "Ghostbusters" film coming from director Paul Feig with an all female cast, the studio is planning a separate movie with a male cast.
February 21, 2015
The 87th Annual Oscars are upon us, and with that comes the common debate as to whether the Oscars don’t give comedy their due. The argument can certainly be made that there is a definite type of film which always receives nominations described as “Oscar bait”; the films which seem to have been made with a checklist of “how to get nominated.” But in the 87 years since the Oscars have been around, there have more than a few times that the Oscars genuinely loved comedy. After all, the first film to get nominated in the top five AND the first film to receive nominations in all for acting categories were both comedies (It Happened One Night (1934) & My Man Godfrey (1936)). And despite seeing more than a few times that the Oscars somehow overlooked great comic performances or only nominated comedians when they went serious (Cary Grant’s two nominations were both in dramas), a few times they showed they had a sense of humor.
With that said, here are my picks for the 87 funniest film performances which ever got nominated, ranked.
February 19, 2015
Reese Witherspoon knows. So does Steve Carell. It's an open secret that being funny on film will not bring you Oscar gold. If it did, Steve would have been billed as Academy Award Nominee Steve Carell for the last 10 years. His performance in The 40 Year-Old Virgin was a revelation. The guy you saw on The Daily Show every so often suddenly turned in this nuanced performance that was both hilarious and sweet. The entire movie hinged on the believability of his character Andy, and Carell very subtly had us in the palm of his hand the entire time. If Andy was dyslexic or had a harelip instead of being a virgin, Carell would have been making the rounds on the awards circuit in 2005, the way he is this year for Foxcatcher.
February 18, 2015
Dan Aykroyd sat down this week at the SiriusXM studios for an episode of "Unmasked with Ron Bennington" and shared a few more details about the Ghostbuster reboot.
February 16, 2015
While most of the Weekend Update anchors have been men over Saturday Night Live's 40 year history, for the anniversary special it was the women behind the news desk.
February 16, 2015
Multiple time SNL host Steve Martin was asked to do the opening monologue for the 40th anniversary special.
February 15, 2015
Saturday Night Live is celebrating its 40th season with gigantic special Sunday Night on NBC. It's a reunion of players, hosts and performers from the original season to current one and every one in between. So far, no one really knows what to expect when the special airs live on Sunday night. One of the anticipated moments is the return of Eddie Murphy to SNL after 31 years and he didn't know how it was all going to work.
February 5, 2015
Peter Dinklage has joined the cast of the new Melissa McCarthy film, “Michelle Darnell”.
January 27, 2015
When Paul Feig announced that he was doing a new "Ghostbusters" movie with an all female paranormal detective team, everyone wondered, who's he gonna call?