This latest installment of Between Two Ferns satisfies two curiosities: (1) Can Sean Penn be self-depricating and funny? (2) Can Zach Galifianakis play another type of character besides the awkward, stumbling doofus?
In this episode, Galifianakis plays his gay Southern twin brother Seth as he interviews a grumpy Penn, who plays off of Galifianakis’ routine with ease. It’s deadpan and pretty funny:
It’s hard to quantify how much actor/producer/director Michael Douglas has meant to popular culture. He’s been a fixture in films for nearly 40 years. He had a run through the eighties and early nineties that almost defined the pulse of the times: The War of the Roses, Wall Street, Falling Down, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Traffic. These are films that not only entertained millions of people, but also provided some of the most talked about issues of the day.
Douglas was such a lively, energetic, and charismatic force onscreen that it’s difficult to imagine him dying of old age, let alone a degenerative disease like cancer. Yet, sadly, that is the fight he has before him now. Diagnosed just three weeks ago with throat cancer at the base of his tongue, Douglas has continued to promote his new movie, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps with his typical good humor and class.
Douglas showed up on David Letterman last night to talk about the movie, (more…)
This is one of the greatest scenes of any war movie ever made … and someone made it even better by adding Donald Duck to it. Fascinating. And a pretty good imitation, too.
The original Robocop is one of my favorite films of all time. It’s bloody, hilarious, and thoughtful. Where in the world did that genius Paul Verhoeven go, anyway?
The one thing I never thought the film needed was a musical number, but apparently there are people out there with minds more warped and creative than mine. So they created a musical out of it. And it ain’t half bad.
Beleaguered director M. Night Shyamalan is a gigantic douche nozzle. He has the mistaken idea that his farts smell like the first cherry blossoms of spring, and that every thought passing through his mind recalibrates the fabric of the space/time continuum. He is dead wrong.
The entire world has been mocking the guy for at least eleven years, when the final ten minutes of Signs unspooled and left us with “Swing Away” as permission for us to start destroying the man. Was the guy who created The Sixth Sense just a fluke? Several films later, it was clear that Shyamalan was either (a) mentally unstable, (b) an egomaniac, or (c) delusional. His lack of humor was only exacerbated by the deadly pacing of his films.
But it looks like our favorite Indian filmmaker has a teeny-tiny little shred of humor left in him. He helped create this spoof of his upcoming Devil trailer, which is set on an escalator rather than in an elevator.
