In moving his adolescent male comedies into more adult realms, the humor sharpens and characters deepen. By Kirk Honeycutt The prerelease narrative behind “Funny People” is that funnyman Judd Apatow ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...
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Writer and director Judd Apatow first became known for the TV series Freaks and Geeks, which gained a cult following when it aired on NBC from 1999 to 2000. Since then, the former stand-up comic has ...
Released in cinemas this Friday, Judd Apatow's third film Funny People centres on a successful comic, George Simmons (Adam Sandler), who contracts a rare, life-threatening disease. After his ...
Judd Apatow unleashes a Muppet movie's worth of celebrities playing themselves inFunnyPeople,including comics Ray Romano, Norm MacDonald and Sarah Silverman. But the most memorable famous people in ...
A: It's about me (laughs). It's about someone (Sandler's character) who gets a second chance at life and doesn't quite know what to do with it. How does he change his life … or can he? In most movies, ...
It’s hard to believe that Judd Apatow’s sour, maudlin Funny People is only the third film he has directed. His man-child universe, with its mixture of juvenile raunch and white-bread family values, ...
Candid but long-winded, well observed but undisciplined, “Funny People” feels like Judd Apatow’s diploma picture marking his move from high school to college as a filmmaker. Amusing and engaging yet ...
Over the past few years, writer/director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) has shown that nothing?not even losing your virginity or the miracle of childbirth?is sacred. About his third ...
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