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Under Paris 2 is now filming with Alexandre Aja at the helm
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (168+ words) For the sequel, Gens has passed the helm over to fellow genre regular Alexandre Aja, whose previous credits include Piranha 3 D and Crawl. Gens and Aja wrote the screenplay for Under Paris 2 with Gregory Levasseur, Fr'd'ric Garcia, William Laboury, and…...
New Jackass: Best and Last gets a trailer that promises the franchise ends with a bang
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (633+ words) Born and raised in New York, then immigrated to Canada, Steve Seigh has been a Jo Blo. com editor, columnist, and critic since 2012. He started with Ink & Pixel, a column celebrating the magic and evolution of animation, before launching the…...
Over Your Dead Body: We chat with Jason Segel, Samara Weaving and Jorma Taccone about their action-comedy
1+ week, 2+ day ago (489+ words) Jo Blo Over Your Dead Body: We chat with Jason Segel, Samara Weaving and Jorma Taccone about their action-comedy While the big news this weekend is the release of Lionsgate's controversial Michael Jackson biopic, IFC is putting out a little…...
The Best John Hughes Characters Ranked: From Ferris Bueller to Del Griffith
3+ week, 20+ hour ago (1131+ words) Few filmmakers have shaped coming-of-age storytelling like John Hughes. Across classics like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Hughes didn't just write memorable dialogue, he created characters that went beyond comedy and represented things…...
Sender (SXSW) Review: A great Britt Lower can't save this clumsy recovery drama
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (254+ words) PLOT: Newly sober, Julia (Britt Lower) is unnerved by a barrage of packages that start arriving from an online retailer, Smirk. No one knows who is sending the packages or why, and the nonstop deliveries begin to threaten Julia's sobriety....
Busboys trailer: David Spade and Theo Von team up for raunchy comedy they wrote (and financed) themselves
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (473+ words) David Spade and Theo Von are joining forces for Busboys, a throwback to the raunchy comedies of the early 2000s, and the first trailer has just dropped. Busboys follows a pair of idiot friends who believe that becoming waiters will solve…...
Over Your Dead Body (SXSW) Review: Innovative carnage makes this dark action comedy worth checking out
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (223+ words) PLOT: A couple (Jason Segel and Samara Weaving) on the rocks take a weekend trip to a secluded cabin where each has separately come up with a plan to murder the other. REVIEW: Over Your Dead Body is an American…...
Pizza Movie Review (SXSW): Gaten Matarazzo leads a time travel stoner college comedy
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (655+ words) Alex Maidy has been a Jo Blo. com editor, columnist, and critic since 2012. Alex has covered San Diego Comic Con, D23, and more over the years including hundreds of interviews on Jo Blo. com You Tube channels. A Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic…...
Remember High School High? It's the Best David Zucker Movie You Never Saw
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1113+ words) Jo Blo Remember High School High? It's the Best David Zucker Movie You Never Saw The Naked Gun and David Zucker Last year's reboot of The Naked Gun franchise was rightfully a heavy concern for every fan of the series…...
The John Candy and Dan Aykroyd comedy, The Great Outdoors, gets a new 4 K Blu-ray from Kino Lorber
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (290+ words) Jo Blo The John Candy and Dan Aykroyd comedy, The Great Outdoors, gets a new 4 K Blu-ray from Kino Lorber One of the films that was ubiquitous in the 80s was The Great Outdoors, a John Hughes-penned family comedy, which paired…...