Here’s a new maxim for Young Hollywood… Friends don’t let Friends direct friends’ screenplays.
Working with your longtime friends, though, is a much better idea. Simon Pegg, the star of Run Fatboy Run, is an English comic actor and cult film hero. Working with longtime collaborators Nick Frost and Edgar Wright, he has starred in a [...]

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Have you ever felt the need to watch Mamet’s Glengary Glen Ross, but only had three minutes?
Ever wonder what it would look like if you boiled it down to just the profanity? The amazing thing is, it works, in an elliptical-poetic sort of way.
Mamet’s dialogue has a distinctive rhythm, and I respect it even more [...]

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In the science-fiction/fantasy genre, there are two types of zombies. The old school type is slow and uncoordinated, its body broken by decay; it mostly staggers around blindly and groaning incoherently. The new school type is fast and mean, running at full speed after fresh meat.
Television shows returning from cancellation can be lumped into the [...]

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Every time South Park begins a new season, the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, get arm-twisted into doing a new round of media interviews. Season after season, they don’t have much that’s new to say, but if you haven’t read an interview with them before, The Onion’s A/V club just posted a [...]

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South Park is back.
After the mis-fire of last week’s episode, “Britney’s New Look” was a welcome return to form for Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The episode takes our gossip-obsessed culture to the edges of horror, equating our tabloid-television fixations with the ancient historical practices of human sacrifice. That absurd perversion of logic [...]

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Every long-running show has its misfires. It’s unavoidable. And for a show like South Park that constantly swings for the fences, even a .400 batting average is remarkable. South Park usually averages one or two misfires a season (the tedious “Manbearpig” comes to mind), but the clinkers have always been redeemed by epic episodes like [...]

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