Judd Apatow

Five ways to fill The Walking Dead-shaped hole in your heart

In just a few days, The Walking Dead will close up shop for another season. The finale airs March 31, and whether you're watching at home alone or attending one of the watching parties (like Not Quite Dead Sundays at Jake's Food and Spirits), it will be the last last time zombies will invade your ho ... More >>

Judd Apatow ponders modern marriage in This Is 40

The earnest Safety Not Guaranteed sits a notch above your basic indie nerd-mance

A Bag of Hammers is this week's most ridiculous trailer

If there's anything we can learn from A Bag of Hammers, it's that you can't judge a movie by its title -- because if you could, the trailer for A Bag of Hammers would be about twenty times badasser. As it is, though, it's yet another low-key-indie-humor Buddy Comedy not by Judd Apatow, which means i ... More >>

Jason Segel and Emily Blunt drag us through their Five-Year Engagement

Johnny Cash: The five most memorable portrayals of the man in black

"Hello. I'm Johnny Cash." That was enough of an introduction for the country legend himself, but Cash's legacy has surpassed that simplicity. In his nearly fifty-year career, Cash played himself in dozens of film and television spots, but his death in 2003 opened the gates for others to take up the ... More >>

Eleven movies to look forward to in 2012

Thirteen hottest vegetarians, in honor of Hug a Vegetarian Day

Flickr photo​As if vegetarians don't get enough kudos for being greener and more animal-friendly than their meat-eating counterparts, now they get rewarded with hugs. And who doesn't love a hug? Today is Hug a Vegetarian Day, according to PETA2. And since we've been slaving away in our cubic ... More >>

Bad Teacher reminds us that change is desperately needed in Hollywood

Bridesmaids has been "fixed" by and for dudes

Paul has a fondness for sex, drugs and swear words

Indie thriller Monogamy goes beyond stereotypes

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, February 25-27, 2011

Have fun on just $10?​Even though we're well aware that February is a short month, it's still hard to imagine we've already reached the final weekend of it. With rent and bills on the horizon, chances are you might be strapped for cash this weekend, but we've got you covered. Well, that's prov ... More >>

This week's most ridiculous trailer: Is The Green Hornet a metaphor for weed?

​Hey, have you ever wondered what it would be like if that guy who made Pineapple Express made a comic book movie? If you smoke weed, it's likely that you have -- so congratulations: You have now officially become a viable market demographic. Sure, it's true that Judd Apatow was not involved i ... More >>

Tiny Furniture satirizes BJs and bourgeois bohemia in New York

Freud and Oedipus underscore the dark humor of Cyrus

Crude on the outside, sweet in the middle, Get Him to the Greek

Like Conan's Tonight, 10 TV shows that got screwed

Word of an Arrested movie can't quell our depression.​Television, as Conan O'Brien will tell you, is a fickle business. They build you up, they use you up, they toss you aside. And sometimes the powers that be don't even wait to use you up -- they just decide that you're done, for reasons tha ... More >>

Funny Person: The Top Ten Judd Apatow Productions

​ Judd Apatow's third film as director, Funny People, opens today to lukewarm reviews (including the one you'll find in Westword, by LA Weekly's kick-ass film reviewer Scott Foundas). Like seemingly every other man my age, I'm a fan of Apatow's; the deft combination of dick jokes, self-loathi ... More >>

Funny People

Rumba at Starz

I Love You, Man

Role Models

Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie

Kevin Smith blows his wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbes will love him.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Drillbit Taylor

Owen Wilson’s a bad fit for an ass-kicking bodyguard.

Beyond Playlist: The All-Soundtrack Edition

Support Group

The year's best characters.

Counter-Strike

Steel yourself for 2008 with a look back at the year's best scripts.

Hit List

The top movies of 2007.

Pause & Rewind

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

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

Sports Column

A trip back in time for this tipsy Hawkeye.

Balls of Fury

Answer all correctly and win a Def Leppard album!

Superbad

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

Digitizing

National CineMedia is the future of movie-theater advertising — and probably the future of movie theaters, period.

Knocked Up

Judd Apatow delivers another spot-on geek fantasy come true.

What Garry Didn't Know

Backhanded Slapstick

Jim Carrey's brand of fun warms a reheated Dick and Jane.

Love the Sin

Cherry on Top

The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes.

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

End of the Road

Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter.

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm.