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Check out the Cast of COMMUNITY Re-Imagined as X-MEN Characters

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 16th, 2012 at 1:13 pm

We all miss Community right now especially since NBC has deigned that it be replaced with garbage like Whitney and Are You There, Chelsea? The show will return, but we don’t know when.  In the meantime, we’ll have to be satisfied with anything Community-related and artist Aviv Or has done some fun illustrations where he’s re-imagined the cast as X-Men characters.  I would say all the characters have been matched up correctly, although I would have liked to seen Annie’s Boobs done as a little tiny Beast.

Hit the jump to check out the images.

THREE AMIGOS! Blu-ray Review

by Phil Brown    Posted: December 3rd, 2011 at 9:00 am

It’s been a long journey for Three Amigos to be considered a classic worthy of a 25^th anniversary Blu-ray release. The film hit screens to a resounding response of critical and audience indifference in 1986, but has gradually come to be regarded as something of a cult classic. It’s difficult to know why it failed. Maybe it was because it was a Western made past the genre’s expiry date, maybe the release date was ill timed, or maybe it’s just a strange comedy that was always destined to appeal to a small, but loyal fanbase. Regardless, the film now seems to have the reputation it deserves as one of John Landis and Steve Martin’s more beloved comedies and while the new Blu-ray isn’t exactly overflowing with nostalgic special features, it’s still a nice treat for fans. Hit the jump for my review of Three Amigos on Blu-ray.

TOP 5: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, COMMUNITY, KILLER ELITE, J. EDGAR Trailer, How to Talk to Your Kids About STAR WARS

by Jason Barr    Posted: September 24th, 2011 at 10:01 am

In this, the first official Saturday of fall for countries in the Northern Hemisphere, I’m happy to report that temperatures in the Midwest are down to a brisk 60 degrees Fahrenheit. As someone who can’t be in the sun/heat for more than fifteen minutes without experiencing incapacitating sunburns, this is a welcomed change to be sure. On a separate note, readers of the site may have noticed that my productivity has decreased in the last week. In a bittersweet piece of news, I’ve taken on full-time employment in the wide world of telecommunications thus explaining my absence. Nevertheless, I’m going to do my level best to keep the “Top 5″ coming each and every weekend for as long as I can. As for today…

…In this week’s installment, you can find the new, nearly four-minute trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Community interviews with Chevy Chase, Donald Glover, Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs and more, Killer Elite interviews with Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Yvonne Strahovski and director Gary McKendry, the first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and an ultra-important PSA teaching parents how to talk with their kids about Star Wars. Hit the jump for a brief recap and link to each.

Chevy Chase and Michael K. Williams Talk COMMUNITY, THE WIRE, the VACATION and FLETCH Reboots, Hosting SNL Again, and a Lot More

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: September 22nd, 2011 at 3:29 pm

With NBC’s Community returning with new episodes tonight, it’s time for the last interview from my recent set visit.  If you’ve been reading the site the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen our video interviews with Joel McHale with Alison Brie, Danny Pudi with Yvette Nicole Brown, and Donald Glover with Gillian Jacobs.  For our final on set interview, I’ve got Chevy Chase with Michael K. Williams (who is playing a new professor).

During the interview they talked about how Williams got cast on the show, how do they prepare as the script is constantly being tweaked on set, Chase talks about where we last left off with Pierce last season and whether or not he will redeem himself this season, and why he took the job on Community after being in semi-retirement.  In addition, Williams talks about transitioning from TV to film after The Wire, Chase talks about the Vacation and Fletch reboots, and he also talks about wanting to host Saturday Night Live again.  Hit the jump to watch and make sure to tune into Community tonight!

COMMUNITY Season Two DVD Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: September 21st, 2011 at 4:14 pm

Community, Dan Harmon’s gift to television, is one of those shows that it feels like a gift that it’s on network television. Such is network television, and the show has struggled with ratings, but pound for pound each episode offers more laughs than pretty much everything else out there, and it comes with a unique sensibility. As great as shows like Parks and Rec, etc. are, Community feels like something new. Perhaps it’s the self-awareness – which can be partly traced to shows like Spaced – but it’s got its own energy, and an unmatched ensemble. Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Chevy Chase, Yvette Nicole Brown, Donald Glover, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong and Jim Rash offer such different characters and comic approaches than the mixing and matching always makes for fun. Our review of Community Season Two on DVD follows after the jump.

Chevy Chase Talks VACATION Reboot and FLETCH, Says He’s Written a Script for New VACATION

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: August 24th, 2011 at 6:13 pm

Earlier today I was lucky enough to be able to visit the set of one of my favorite shows on any channel: NBC’s Community.  I got to visit the set in anticipation of the season two DVD, which hits stores September 6^th, and season three, which premieres on Thursday September 22^nd at 8/7c.  While I’ll have a lot of video interviews with the entire cast very soon, I spoke with Chevy Chase about the upcoming Vacation reboot and a new Fletch movie and wanted to bring you what he said as soon as possible.

A reboot of the Vacation franchise is currently in development at Warner Bros., and when I spoke with producer David Dobkin last month, he said that the new film would tell son Rusty’s story and have him encountering the same hijinks that his father did. Dobkin played coy about Chase making an appearance in the film, but Chase’s answer today about a Vacation reboot came as a bit of a shock.  He said he’s written a different script for a new Vacation film with co-star Beverly D’Angelo.  He said:

“I’ve written an idea that would be basically like a “Swiss Family Griswold.” There’s a cruise, there’s a fire on the ship, we think the whole ship’s on fire and we jump—it’s just a little fire—and we end up on an island where we meet Randy somewhere who’s been left there from an old Survivor series.”

Hit the jump for more.

Comic-Con 2011: COMMUNITY Panel Recap; Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar from THE WIRE) Joins the Cast for Season 3 Arc

by Dave Trumbore    Posted: July 23rd, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Pop-pop! The cast and creative team behind NBC’s Community entertained audience members today and gave us some sneak peeks about the upcoming season 3. They were introduced by a countdown ending in a remixed clip montage of some of our favorite scenes from past episodes. On hand with creator Dan Harmon were cast members Donald Glover (Troy), Danny Pudi (Abed), Gillian Jacobs (Britta), Yvette Nicole Brown (Shirley), Joel McHale (Jeff), Ken Jeong (Chang), Jim Rash (Dean Pelton) and, of course, Chevy Chase (Pierce). Alison Brie (Annie) was unable to attend due to shooting for Save the Date, but did take questions through twitter (@AlisonBrie). Hit the jump to read about a special appearance by Annie’s Boobs.

Exclusive: Director David Dobkin Talks About His KING ARTHUR Movie and the VACATION Reboot/Sequel

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: July 18th, 2011 at 10:21 am

With director David Dobkin’s The Change-Up opening in a few weeks, I was able to get on the phone with him yesterday to talk about the movie.  While I’m embargoed from writing a review…I will say that The Change-Up is extremely funny and the last time I laughed that hard in a theater was Bridesmaids.  Definitely recommended.

Anyway, towards the end of the interview, Dobkin gave me some updates on his King Arthur movie and also what’s up with the Vacation reboot/sequel which he’s producing.  While I knew his King Arthur movie was a priority at Warner Bros., I had no idea they were already casting and they’re planning on filming this January in London.  Much more after the jump.

COMMUNITY: “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas” Episode Review

by Ethan Anderton    Posted: December 9th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

Like many other people around the world, I’m partial to watching certain holiday films and specials when that most wonderful time of the year rolls around. From A Christmas Story (24 hours of it no less) to Jingle All the Way (big whoop, wanna fight about it?) and animated specials like A Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. However, never have I found myself re-watching holiday themed episodes of even my favorite series on purpose. Sure I’ll partake in one of the many Christmas disasters that happen on The Office if they happen to air when I’m looking for something to watch, but never have I gone out of my way to watch a specific holiday episode of any series. However, that may all change after this year with Community’s stop-motion animated Christmas episode Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas, a piece of serial television that is one of the best and most relevant holiday specials I’ve ever seen. Find out why after the jump.

COMMUNITY Season One DVD Review

by Keith Demko    Posted: November 3rd, 2010 at 8:20 am

While watching the sometimes uneven but often very hilarious first season of NBC’s Community on DVD, I had to wonder: Why don’t more TV shows aiming for the funny take on college?

Teen shows often avoid it like the plague. Judd Apatow and his crew found gold – if for only one season – with Undeclared, the natural successor to Freaks and Geeks. But not until Joel McHale and his Spanish study group at Greendale Community College entered NBC’s Thursday night lineup last fall has a show so successfully tapped into the contradiction that our four years or so of “higher learning” are often the silliest and most hedonistic time of people’s lives.

Hit the jump for a full review of the first season DVD set for Community.

FUNNY FARM and SPIES LIKE US Blu-ray Reviews

by Jeff Giles    Posted: July 19th, 2010 at 7:01 pm

Before he was the scene-stealing old guy on NBC’s Community, Chevy Chase was one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. Between 1978’s Foul Play and 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Chase reeled off a string of nearly 20 comedies, most of them big hits — and then he pissed it all away in a spectacular orgy of horrible flops that included Nothing but Trouble and Cops and Robbersons.

Now that Chevy’s making us laugh again, and the sting of his most egregious failures has worn off, Warner Bros. has decided to pull two of his movies from the vaults for its “Double Feature” series. They aren’t two of his best, unfortunately, but for filmgoers of a certain age, the Funny Farm/Spies Like Us two-fer will bring back plenty of (occasionally rather painful) memories.  More after the jump:

CADDYSHACK Blu ray Review

by Gil Kellerman    Posted: June 9th, 2010 at 8:42 am

Reviewing Caddyshack is difficult.  The film is not artful, high minded, or cerebral by any means.  It never tries to be heady, sentimental or deliver a message to its audience.  Instead, it’s irreverent, zippy, and more often than not, sheer comic genius.  A milestone of comedy, setting a standard so many films would try to live up to, the movie is less a narrative than a string of insanely uproarious moments inhabited by unforgettable characters.

The paper-thin plot (does anyone even care?) centers on a young man named Danny Noonan (Michael O’Keefe) trying to get a new scholarship offered to caddies at an exclusive country club.  But that quickly gets forgotten, only to vaguely resurface throughout the rest of the film.  This leaves ample time for (seemingly) lesser subplots (who will take over Bushwood Country Club, and a power struggle with a gopher, for example), which involve its A-list cast of comedy kings – Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Ted Knight and Rodney Dangerfield – to riff, improvise and deliver some of cinema’s most resonating bits of hilarity.  More after the jump:

Director Steve Pink Interview HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: March 23rd, 2010 at 2:50 pm

Some writer-directors of comedy movies aren’t funny in interviews.  It’s surprising, but it happens.  However, Steve Pink is not one of those people.  He’s also very smart.  He wrote Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity and directed the underrated Accepted. His latest film, Hot Tub Time Machine, is damn funny and he had the skill to pull off a film that embraced the silliness of the 1980s but never insulted it.

I got to interview Pink at a press junket for the film a couple weeks ago.  Among other topics, we discussed the references in the film, how it approached the 80s versus the present, the mechanics of time travel and how to balance it with the comedy, and the film’s fantastic soundtrack.  There was also a long discussion about a moral question the film poses but since that involves the ending, I’ve stationed it off with spoiler alert tags.

Hit the jump to read the full interview.  Hot Tub Time Machine hits theaters on March 26th.

Two Featurettes and Four Clips for HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: March 19th, 2010 at 4:07 pm

We just got sent two featurettes and four clips for the upcoming time-travel/80s-parody Hot Tub Time Machine.  One featurette focuses on Chevy Chase who plays an irritatingly (to the characters) cryptic hot tub repairman and the other focuses on Crispin Glover whose character is part of the one of the greatest running gags of all-time.

We also have four clips and they’re good but it looks like MGM is holding the painfully hilarious stuff for those that go to see the movie.  And it’s a movie folks should go see it.  I saw the flick last weekend and it’s damn funny, especially Rob Corddry who has finally found his breakout role.

Hit the jump to check out the featurettes, clips, and official synopsis.  Hot Tub Time Machine hits theaters on March 26th. [Update: We have temporarily removed the featurettes at the request of the studio]

New Line Prepping Another VACATION with the Griswold Family

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 10th, 2010 at 9:31 pm

While rumors of another Vacation movie being developed is hardly new, it seems the rumor is actually real. According to Variety, New Line is getting ready to follow a new generation of the Griswold family on an adventure.  To make it happen, the studio has hired screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Sam Weir from Freaks and Geeks!) to pen the update.  David Dobkin’s (Wedding Crashers) is going to produce.  For more on where the Griswold’s will go, hit the jump:

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