Subject: Will Ferrell

• SoCal Independent Film Festival: Nine Hours

  September 8, 2007

• Film Pick of the Weekend: A Re-evaluation of Adam Sandler's Early Works

  Early critical reports on You Don't Mess With the Zohan haven't looked too good, though audiences will have the final say in the film's commercial success. The preview left me uninspired, which is a shame because it was co-written by comedy-man-of-the-hour Judd Apatow and borderline genius Robert Smigel. Then again, I haven't been much of a fan of Adam Sandler since I was sixteen. Sandler's career trajectory has been fascinating though. His early appearances on Saturday Night Live rubbed m

  June 6, 2008

• John Wayne vs. Mark Sanchez

  University of Southern California quarterback and Mission Viejo High product Mark Sanchez may be OC Weekly's coverboy today, but USC Public Relations is right now propping up another Trojan football player with ties to Orange County. This former Trojan player never scored a touchdown, seeing as how he played tackle ... in the 1920s. He is, of course, John Wayne, American icon, greatest cowboy movie star ever (pardner!) and a longtime resident of Newport Beach, so beloved around here that Newp

  August 21, 2008

• Matt Costa Releases Second Single

  The Malloys, the brotherly director-ly duo who've worked previously with artists like the Kooks, Jimmy Eat World, Cold War Kids, Santana, the White Stripes, Will Ferrell (?) and others, have teamed up once again with Huntington Beach's Matt Costa for the video to his second single, "Cigarette Eyes," off his sophomore album, Unfamiliar Faces. The video was shot in a single take and even features a couple cameos from Costa's drummer, James Fletcher, who also plays drums for the Costa Mesa-based

  August 27, 2008

• New Zealand Natural Ice Cream Opens in Orange

  A new ice cream shop from New Zealand opened its first U.S. store at the Stadium Promenade in Orange. Appropriately, it's called New Zealand Natural Ice Cream. And though the ice cream may be made from "fresh dairy cream from cows that feed on the green unpolluted pastures of New Zealand", its press release couldn't have sounded more artificial. It reads like a celebutant-nudging, hype-craving, Hollywood-name-dropping act of desperation. Judge for yourself: "New Zealand Natural ice cream h

  September 15, 2008

• Special Screenings

  June 22, 2006

• Newport Beach Film Festival Seeks Young Talent

  If you are a filmmaker who is 18 or younger, the Newport Beach Film Festival wants you. Entries are being sought for the 2009 Youth Film Showcase, a free springtime event that gives young people a forum for their cinematic masterpieces. Besides allowing budding Tarantinos opportunities to express themselves and display their creativity to the world, the showcase is sponsored by Volcom, which means their should be some good swag. And you young 'uns just might rub scaly elbows wit

  January 20, 2009

• Seth Rogen's Rent-a-Cop Rides the Bipolar Express in 'Observe and Report'

  April 9, 2009

• Rainn Wilson Comedy 'The Rocker' Is More Childish Pop Than Hardcore Funny

  August 21, 2008

• Full of Itself and Not Half As Funny As It Thinks It Is, 'Hamlet 2' Is Simply Tragic

  August 21, 2008

• With 'Step Brothers,' Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. Still Don't Wanna Grow Up. And Thank God for That

  July 24, 2008

• Them's Jokes

  June 12, 2008

• Fallon for It

  June 12, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Movies to Look Forward to Now That Indy and Carrie Bradshaw Have Used Up All the Hype

  June 12, 2008

• Tae Kwon Do Comedy 'The Foot Fist Way' Stars a Truly Cringe-Tastic Danny McBride

  May 29, 2008

• [Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

  May 15, 2008

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

  March 20, 2008

• Semi-Pro Is Only Half-Bad—The Will Ferrell Half

  February 28, 2008

• Hock the Line

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

  December 20, 2007

• New Reviews

  We Recommend:Arctic Tale, Becoming Jane, Bourne Ultimatum and No End in Sight

  August 2, 2007

• Brothers Grim

  Wendell Baker is a dysfunctional Wilson family affair

  May 17, 2007

• [Newport Beach Film Fest] An Encapsulated Diary Digesting the Decade-Old Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 16, 2009

• New Reviews

  Blades of Glory; Dating Games People Play; First Snow; Meet the Robinsons

  March 29, 2007

• Now Playing

  Alpha Dog, Borat, Casino Royale

  February 1, 2007

• Farce of a Champion

  OnDVD: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

  January 11, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  December 14, 2006

• Hearing Voices

  In the new Will Ferrell comedy, the truth is Stranger Than Fiction

  November 9, 2006

• Ghouls Gone Wild!

  October 26, 2006

• Men Behaving Badly

  September 28, 2006

• We Forget

  September 7, 2006

• Don't Save That Drama for Your Mama

  August 31, 2006

• Crash Test Dummy

  August 3, 2006

• Boozers, Users and Losers

  June 22, 2006

• Open-Air Cinema

  June 22, 2006

• Tortilla Flat

  June 15, 2006

• Get Inside!

  Your three-month forecast of the summers top movies

  May 25, 2006

• The Big Setup

  April 20, 2006

• New Reviews

  Aquamarine, Deep Sea 3D, Ultraviolet, Winter Passing

  March 2, 2006

• Thank God for That Tax Cut!

  September 8, 2005

• No Stunt Hair Necessary

  August 18, 2005

• Oh, the Nora, the Nora

  June 23, 2005

• Pop Will Eat Itself

  June 9, 2005

• Loch Ness Monsters

  September 23, 2004

• Blended Burgundy

  August 12, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 15, 2004

• Dont Give Up on Them Baby

  March 4, 2004

• I

  October 24, 2002

• Thrice's Sixth Studio Album Announced for October, Get Ready for Warped Tour

  Dustin RabinThrice prepare for the summer's Warped Tour (poorly).Irvine's favorite sons (other than Will Ferrell, maybe, but post-Land of the Lost that's questionable at best) Thrice have announced that their sixth album, the follow-up to 2007 (and 2008's!) four-disc, dual release The Alchemy Index will be out in October of this year, and it's called Beggars. Why is it called that, you ask? Let's see what Dustin Kensrue has to say via press release!

  June 17, 2009

• Move Over, Will Ferrell and Jon Lovitz

  Nasim Pedrad​After next season, Will Ferrell (who was born and raised in Irvine) and Jon Lovitz (who got a bachelor's degree from UCI) will not be the only Saturday Night Live alums with ties to Orange County's Stepford. Jezebel.com reports that former Irvine resident Nasim Pedrad is one of two women who will be added to next season's SNL cast--and she will be the 147-year-old show's first Iranian-American. Along with the addition of Brooklyn comic Jenny Slate, Pedrad "brings the [male to

  September 2, 2009

• Rick Warren Likes Farrell's--Does Farrell's Really Want that Endorsement?

  Will Farrell's soon seel a Purpose-Driven Sundae?​Apparently, Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour was a pretty big deal in its day, but I wouldn't know--the only ice cream we could afford when I was a kiddie was Otter Pops. But some Orange Countians have been eagerly anticipating its return at the Shops of Mission Viejo, one being Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren. He was at its opening, wanting to meet owner Bob Farrell because the first date Purpose-Driven® Rick ever went on with his wife was at

  November 9, 2009