Comedy

First episode impressions: ‘Super Fun Night’ (TV review)

While it doesn’t serve up groundbreaking (no fat joke intended) humor, “Super Fun Night” (8:30 p.m. Central Wednesdays on ABC) does have a sweet, somewhat understated vibe

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First episode impressions: ‘The Goldbergs’ (TV review)

“The Goldbergs” (8 p.m. Central Tuesdays on ABC) starts with a montage of 1980s images like “ALF,” “The Karate Kid” and a Rubik’s Cube as the

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First episode impressions: ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ (TV review)

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (7:30 p.m. Central Tuesdays on Fox) has an all-crazy all-the-time vibe that makes it a nice companion to the similarly off-the-wall “New Girl” and

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Liam James breaks out amid stellar cast in lovable ‘The Way Way Back’ (Movie review)

Between “The Descendants” — one of my top 10 movies of 2011 — and this summer’s “The Way Way Back,” screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have

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You won’t need to be as drunk as the characters to enjoy ‘The World’s End’ (Movie review)

All the things we loved about previous Simon Pegg/Nick Frost movies “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz” and “Paul” are present again in the pub-crawl

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Vaughn, Wilson recapture comedic chemistry as Google crashers in ‘The Internship’ (Movie review)

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are both experts at playing confident guys in situations where they have no business being confident. Despite their almost identical

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‘We’re the Millers’ delivers the laughs promised in the preview (Movie review)

I wonder if “We’re the Millers” even had a casting call. Jason Sudeikis is as comfortable in his role as the small-time drug dealer who heads up

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‘This Is the End’ the ultimate end game for funny batch of down-to-Earth actors (Movie review)

The previews before my screening of “This Is the End” included “Grown-Ups 2,” and I’m glad I saw it, otherwise I would’ve assumed Adam Sandler and friends

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‘The Mindy Project’ is now better than ‘New Girl’ (TV commentary)

I suppose I’ll be the first person to say this, but: “The Mindy Project” is better than “New Girl.” It has been since about January, and Tuesday’s season finale

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‘Pitch Perfect’ hits the right notes; ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ falls a bit flat (Movie reviews)

The 2012 college a cappella comedy “Pitch Perfect” (now on DVD) is a nice snapshot of youth culture as it features some of the expected cliques and

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