TRAILER REVIEW: ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’

This is a pretty interesting trailer for a number of reasons, but let’s start with the title, which is awful no matter how clever the book on which it’s based is: “The Men Who Stare At Goats.”

TRAILER REVIEW: ‘Despicable Me’ or the coolest animated movie since ‘Up’

This has to be the best trailer I’ve seen for an animated movie not made by Pixar since I saw the trailer for “Up.”

The Times writes about Jody Hill

Filmmaker Jody Hill, right, and Danny McBride

David Itzkoff at The New York Times wrote a decent story last weekend on North Carolina filmmaker Jody Hill whose second movie, “Observe and Report,” came out Friday. I just got back from seeing it.

TRAILER REVIEW: ‘Observe and Report’

UPDATE: Warner Brothers yanked the trailer off YouTube. Another version is here at Trailer Addict, however. Good times.

A little bit’s been said about “Observe and Report” for two reasons: 1) It’s Seth Rogen’s next comedy, and his movies are now essentially events among the Apatow-converted. And 2) It’s a comedy about a mall cop.

Filed under: WTF?

I was watching a Jody Hill short film on YouTube about Danny McBride learning to skateboard, and one of the related links took me to this rotund fellow who apparently hails from Towson, Md. I clicked the link, was immediately embarrassed, shocked, beguiled and then completely fascinated by what this dude has the stones to do.