Comedy

First episode impressions: ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 7 (TV review)

“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (9 p.m. Central Thursdays) is getting so crazy that even the FX network seems jittery about it, running so many “mature

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First episode impressions: ‘New Girl’ (TV review)

With Zooey Deschanel in the title role, I expect “New Girl” (8 p.m. Central Tuesdays starting Sept. 20 on Fox, but the first episode is already

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‘Blue Valentine,’ ‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story,’ ‘Cedar Rapids,’ ‘Hobo with a Shotgun,’ ‘Hall Pass,’ ‘Skateland’ (Movie reviews)

With a few days off from work and a couple weeks to go before the fall TV season, I took the opportunity to rent some

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First episode impressions: ‘I Just Want My Pants Back’ (and thoughts on TV’s rare 20-somethings) (Review)

I spent all of my 20s waiting for a hit show about 20-somethings. I don’t mean that I was staring at my TV, waiting for

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In ‘Our Idiot Brother,’ the idiot is the smart one, and so is this refreshing comedy (Movie review)

In a scene from “Our Idiot Brother,” title character Ned (Paul Rudd) is counting his cash on the subway and he hands it to a stranger to

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10 movies John wouldn’t mind seeing this fall (Commentary)

I’ve done the hard work of perusing Entertainment Weekly’s fall movie preview and watching the trailers, and I now present the top 10 movies to

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Perfect casting, frenetic pace help ‘30 Minutes or Less’ deliver (Movie review)

Is it possible for Danny McBride to not be funny? Playing a criminal who is tailing the unfortunate pizza-delivery guy whom he forces to rob

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‘The Change-Up’ delivers lots of crude laughs, but it’s mostly a throwaway (Movie review)

“The Change-Up” has many of the things I look for in a blockbuster comedy: Jokes involving poop, pee, genitals, breasts and sex, plus copious dropping of

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First episode impressions: ‘Friends with Benefits’ (TV review)

As far as I can tell after two episodes, “Friends with Benefits” is a good show for people who think the main purpose of romantic relationships is

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‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’ And ‘cute’ and ‘smart’ and ‘funny’ (Movie review)

I love a lot of scenes, a lot of moments, a lot of lines from “Crazy, Stupid, Love.,” the best movie of 2011 so far. But one

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