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Film: A few long-running, still-blooming comedy crews

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:49:18 -0400

By SEAN DALY and MICHELLE STARK - Hope and Crosby, Martin and Lewis, Aykroyd and Belushi, Cheech and Chong: Hollywood history is fat and funny with classic "buddy" duos, slapstick fellas who just couldn't quit each other.

The end of the world, turning on a comic axis

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:38:40 -0400

NEW YORK - The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We've seen tsunamis sweep the oceans ("2012"), the world freeze over ("The Day After Tomorrow") and a rogue planet bear down ("Melancholia"). So many have been patrolling a desolate Earth - Will Smith ("After Earth"), Tom Cruise ("Oblivion"), a cute cleanup robot ("WALL-E") - that even the post-apocalyptic world is getting crowded.

Review: 'This Is the End' weirdly compelling

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:45:18 -0400

LOS ANGELES - The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with "This Is the End," an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young stars and stars-by-affiliation jokingly imagine their own mortality. A sort-of "The Day of the Locust" centered on successful comic actors, rather than down-and-outers, facing a conflagration in Los Angeles, this is a dark farce that's simultaneously self-deprecating, self-serving, an occasion to vent about both friends and rivals and to fret about self-worth in a cocooned environment. With everyone here officially playing themselves, the result is like a giant home movie and a reality horror show, different enough from anything that's come before to score with young audiences.

J-Kwon song part of movie soundtrack

Thu, 30 May 2013 05:08:56 -0400

ST. LOUIS - Music by a St. Louis rapper is featured in the new comedy "This is the End."

Netflix stock sinks on mixed reviews of 'Arrested'

Tue, 28 May 2013 19:11:27 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO - The hoopla surrounding the return of "Arrested Development" on Netflix's Internet video service has quickly dissolved into a letdown on Wall Street.