If you've been watching Christopher Guest's new HBO series "Family Tree," you know there's plenty of stuff in the foreground to send you into a fit of giggles*. But you might not have spotted all the hilario...
Offending film: "Everyone Says I Love You"
In this 1996 iteration of Woody Allen "ick," a beautiful twentysomething Julia Roberts falls in love with a balding sixtysomething Woody A...
ABC boss: "Happy Endings" was "just too narrow"
ABC Entertainment president Paul Lee says "Happy Endings" was on brand, and he wasn't happy to cancel it. "What we found was it was...
Christopher Guest's new HBO comed series "Family Tree" starts off from an autobiographical place. Like the show's hero, Tom Chadwick (Chris O'Dowd), Guest once inherited a trunk of family mementos and bec...
Christopher Guest has spent much of his brilliant career exploring the fine line between stupid and clever, as one his bandmates in “This Is Spinal Tap” put it. The characters in the Guest school of improv...
Better late and long than never? Outside concerns delayed this week's Firewall & Iceberg Podcast until today, but we're pretty sure it's it's one of the longest we've ever done, and previews what shoul...
It is somehow fitting that the last word Roger Ebert would ever have on the movies concerned filmmaker Terrence Malick, whose sixth feature, "To the Wonder," opens in theaters this weekend. Ebert has always ...
This article first appeared in part at InContention.com on May 24, 2011. It seemed like a good time to re-purpose it for new readers here at HitFix with the release of "To the Wonder" on the horizon.
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Zoe Saldana may be best-known for playing a blue-skinned creature in James Cameron's "Avatar," but she may soon be seen with green skin in Marvel's newest big screen supergroup, "Guardians of the Galaxy...
I can think of no more perfect visual metaphor for Chris O'Dowd's booming career these days than his own appearance at last year's Cannes Film Festival: walking the red carpet for the midnight premiere of Australian m...
