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...a Tenacious D movie more than a decade after Black and Kyle Gass formed their heavy-metal homage/parody suggests they're too late to their own party; already there have been myriadand Mr. Show appearances, the short-lived HBO series, and the 2001 album, not to mention Black's role in The School of Rock, which capitalized on his performance as, well, more or ...
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Reservoir Dogs: 15th Anniversary (Lions Gate)
Quentin Tarantino's first film shows its age these days, mostly because we've seen all its tricks done far better by now. From the n...
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One would never confuse the work of writer-director Todd Phillips with that of the late Robert Hamer, whose filmography includes the essential Kind Hearts and Coronets. Hamer's mov...
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There is no modern-day antecedent to the movies Will Ferrell makes with writer-director Adam McKay, with whom Ferrell collaborated during their tenure atonly a few years ago. To compare their offerings, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and the new Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, to the oeuvres of Adam Sandler or t...
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Black Hawk Down: Extended Cut (Sony)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Ultimate Collector's Edition (Fox)
Charmed: The Complete Fifth Season (Paramount)
Dumbo: Big Top ...
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Africa Screams (Image)
April's Shower (Liberation)
Back Door to Hell (Fox)
Bloodrayne (Uwe Boll Productions)
The Closer: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.)
Deadwood...
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Art School Confidential is very much like every movie pilfered from theplaybook, in which the slight giggles of a four-minute sketch are wrung into two-hour yawns. The work upon which it's based is a four-page excerpt from a 14-year-old comic book cal...
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...er Reeve is a winner in my book.
Hey, I may be sick in the head, but there are a lot of us around here who don't get much nourishment, now that David Letterman has gotten old andhas cleaned up its act. About the only thing going is Bill Maher's show, and now, 'course, Cap'n Mike and Chuey the Rock 'N' Roll Midget.
Denise Parra, Phoenix
Laughter -- and ...
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By Jordan Harper, Melissa Levine and Robert Wilonsky Published:
January 26, 2006
The Aristocrats (Lions Gate)
The single joke around which Paul Provenza's documentary revolves has a standard beginning and ending, like pieces of bread that make a sandwich stuf...
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...acking Up. Something about a sad clown comes to mind.
But Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is a particularly painful event for those of us weaned on Brooks' earliest films,shorts, and vintage clips of his deadpan standup appearances. It contains precisely two funny moments, one of which involves his being asked by al-Jazeera execs to star in a propos...
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THU 12/1The Reggaeton Festival 2005 is like a yummy mixed drink: two parts reggae, one part hip-hop, one part Latin dance, with just a splash of techno and dancehall. The Puerto Ri...
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You feel the chill in the air, that spooky tingle at the base of your spine, the growing sense of dread in the pit of your stomach. You know it's coming, and your ass had better be...
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You feel the chill in the air, that ooky tingle at the base of your spine, the growing sense of dread in the pit of your stomach. You know it's coming, and your ass had better be...
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...nge is located at 24 North Second Street. Call 602-253-0118.
SUN 9"Over-the-top deadpan" sounds like an oxymoron unless you're talking about native New Yorker Colin Quinn. Thealumnus has been a pokerfaced joker since his early days on MTV's Remote Control game show, where he proved he could do things like identify Axl Rose's ass from a millisecond of vi...
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By Niki D'Andrea, David Gofstein, Clay McNear and Kanupriya Vashisht Published:
September 15, 2005
9/16-9/17While most kids long to be baseball stars or astronauts, Darrell Hammond was a comedian born. He started impersonating family members when he was 5, and he's blossomed int...
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The Man isn't so much a movie as a parody of one, the kind of thing people in movies about the movie business pitch as outrageous, inept ideas when a director's going for the cheap...
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Barn of the Naked Dead (Koch Vision Entertainment)
The Bela Lugosi Collection (Universal)
Bruce Springsteen: VH1 Storytellers (Sony Music)
Charmed: The Complete Second Season...
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"There's more white cloth in here than a Klan meetin' in Georgia!" I spit as we cross the threshold of Old Town Scottsdale's Dos Gringos for the club's toga party last Thursday. "S...
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Don't go to the Tempe Improv this weekend expecting oldbits from comedian Tracy Morgan. And if you're offended by anything in Morgan's standup act, don't you dare go home and diss him on the 'Net. "I think those people are cowards that...
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...n Americanized play on "Don Juan." Apparently, Warren Beatty never had a thing on this guy.
As a movie actor, Murray has long since abandoned the playful cutup everybody loved onand taken up residence in a darker, more seasoned persona -- part ironist, part tormented seeker, only occasionally the purveyor of jest or joke. In Flowers, we see in Murray the s...
