Subject: Movie Comedies

• Borat Loves Orange County!

  Next week, the pinche hilarious Borat Sagdiyev graces American screens with his Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The Weekly sponsored a screening yesterday at The Block at Orange, and weren't we all surpised when the Virgin Megastore there played a crucial role in the film! Lest we be accused of spoiling films, let's just say it involves Pamela Anderson and a parking lot. Jagshemash!.

  October 27, 2006

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 8-17-07

  I don't have one. The Invasion is being called the worst of the four Body Snatcher movies (and it's troubled history of reshoots and director-firings help me to believe that), Death at a Funeral's a dud, and Superbad? Well, everyone swears up and down it's super-awesome, but none of the clips I've seen have been appealing in the least. I was never a bully -- more often the victim -- but even I want to beat up that fat kid. So go see Hot Rod or Stardust if you haven't yet. Or rent the 1980 Flas

  August 17, 2007

• LYT's Film Pick(s) of the Weekend 12-7-07

  If you're a horror fan, see TIMBER FALLS this weekend. If you aren't, it won't be the one that wins you over. Call it The West Virginia Switchblade-Sickle Massacre. When a young couple (Edward Burns wannabe Josh Randall and Brittany Murphy wannabe Brianna Brown) go on a hike in a state park, they take the trail less traveled by, and that makes all the difference, as it’s inhabited by your average homicidal Bible-quoting lunatics with their own private dungeon. There’s not much here you hav

  December 7, 2007

• Oscar Nominations are announced

  And yes, I'm up prior to the crack of dawn to get them to you. The biggest surprise, if you can call it that, is the strong showing by MICHAEL CLAYTON, with six nominations. Not so surprisingly, THERE WILL BE BLOOD and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN each have eight. Via CNN, because it announced even before the official Oscar site: The nominees for best picture are "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood," "Atonement," "Juno" and "Michael Clayton." JUNO? Really? Just goes to show there's a ri

  January 22, 2008

• Zack and Miri Lose a Title

  You can understand ABC Family, Radio Disney and the Christian Science Monitor lopping off the second half of the title to Kevin Smith's new dramatic comedy or comedic drama Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It doesn't make it any more right, but you can understand it. But for it to be done by Comedy Central, a supposedly edgy network that is home to South Park, The Sarah Silverman Program and formerly That's My Bush? It just happened during a commercial break for The Daily Show, with the film's title

  October 28, 2008

• Hit List

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! The top movies of 2007

  December 27, 2007

• 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay' Is a Forced Act Two

  April 24, 2008

• Nobody's Perfect

  February 12, 2009

• Criminally Funny

  February 5, 2009

• 'Role Models' Is Smarter and Bawdier Than Your Average Boys-to-Men Movie

  November 6, 2008

• Bicentennial Buds

  October 30, 2008

• Kevin Smith Blows His Wad With 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'

  October 30, 2008

• The True Bromance of Judd Apatow and Seth Rogan's 'Pineapple Express'

  August 7, 2008

• Steve Carell's 'Get Smart' Redux Is a Rare Device: A TV Remake for the Big Screen That Works

  June 19, 2008

• See More Fun

  June 19, 2008

• Mozart, James Joyce and Sodomy

  June 19, 2008

• Neither Tina Fey Nor Amy Poehler Seem Invested in 'Baby Mama,' Their Surrogate-Mommy Comedy

  April 24, 2008

• In the Judd Apatow-Produced 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' Jason Segel Uses His Balls to Great Effect

  April 17, 2008

• 'Leatherheads,' George Clooney's Ode to Screwball Comedies of Yore Is Sooooo Close. But Yet . . .

  April 3, 2008

• Owen Wilson Is a Bad Fit for an Ass-Kicking Bodyguard in 'Drillbit Taylor'

  March 20, 2008

• Teen Comedy Charlie Bartlett Could Use a Dose of Mean

  February 21, 2008

• Absolutely, Positively See Definitely, Maybe

  February 14, 2008

• Kiss My Cottontail!

  January 10, 2008

• DVDish

  Black Russian

  January 3, 2008

• DVDish

  Pause & Rewind: The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

  December 27, 2007

• Hock the Line

  Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

  December 20, 2007

• Old World Charm

  Ken Davitian makes laughter for benefit grateful moviegoers of America

  February 8, 2007

• Nerd Love

  Geeky, freaky teen virgins attempt to get knocked up in Superbad, produced by guess who?

  August 16, 2007

• Great Alpha Male

  The Offices David Denman finds a character to root for in Shrew

  July 19, 2007

• Evan Can Wait

  Why in Gods name did Steve Carell take the Almighty paycheck?

  June 21, 2007

• On the Road

  Sacha Baron Cohens howlingly funny mockumentary goes looking for America

  November 2, 2006

• Fluff Done Right

  March 1, 2007

• Eclectic Boogaloo

  September 1, 2005

• Sex and the Pocket Protector

  August 18, 2005

• Please Release Me . . .

  May 15, 2003

• Through With Love

  February 27, 2003

• A Not-So-Fine Romance

  February 1, 2001

• Spooner is Hidden Gem at Newport Beach Film Fest

  Herman (Matthew Lillard) and Rose (Nora Zehetner) get a jump on their relationship in "Spooner."This post is based on one of life's happy accidents. Folks at the Newport Beach Film Festival, which runs through Thursday, asked weeks ago if I wanted to write about a film called Spooner, which was directed by former Santa Ana resident Drake Doremus and stars former Tustin resident Matthew Lillard in the title role. Sure, I answered, just send me a screener copy of the film so I'll know what to ask

  April 24, 2009

• 'Funny People' Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler, Together at Last

  July 30, 2009