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Arts & Culture, Comedy Jan 17, 2018
Pete Holmes on navigating pop culture post-Weinstein

“I’m interested in the conversation about if we’re allowed to laugh at people who’ve made mistakes,” the creator and star of HBO’s Crashing says.
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Comedy, Pete Holmes, Crashing, HBO, Judd Apatow, Beth Stelling, Emily Gordon, Jamie Lee, Stephen Colbert, Conan O'Brien, Artie Lange, Lyons Den, Sarah Silverman, T.J. Miller, Dave Chappelle, Rachael Ray, Bill Hicks

Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 12, 2015
Judd Apatow answers questions about asking questions

The uber director/producer and reborn stand-up talks about his three decades of interviews with comedians, compiled in the new book Sick in the Head.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Feature, Judd Apatow, Sick in the Head, Kncoked Up, 40-Year-Old Virgin, This Is 40, Henny Youngman, Howard Stern, Amy Schumer, Trainwreck, Dave Eggers, 826, Chicago Humanities Festival, Dave Attell, Mike Birbiglia, Colin Quinn, Vanessa Bayer, Chris Rock, Leslie Mann, Albert Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Alan Zweibel, Saturday Night Live, Rodney Dangerfield, Second City, Pearl Jam, Wrigley Field, iO, Garry Shandling

Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2014
Lee Sandlin, scourge of the small screen

Revisiting the take-no-prisoners TV criticism of Lee Sandlin
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: RIP, Arts, Television, 90s Nostalgia, Small Screen, Lee Sandlin, Michael Miner, Losing the War, Alison True, Gustave Flaubert, Babylon V, Madame Bovary, Ugly Betty, ER TV show, The Brady Bunch, Fantasy Island, Teletubbies, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Sex and the City, Spike TV, Adam Sandler, Dane Cook, Judd Apatow, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, Dexter TV show, television criticism

Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2014
Recommended
Comedian Amy Schumer gets dirtier

Comedian Amy Schumer brings her jokes on STDs and uncircumcised penises to the Auditorium Theatre on Saturday, March 28.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Comedy, Amy Schumer, Auditorium Theatre, Mostly Sex Stuff, Comedy Central show, Inside Amy Schumer, STDs, Judd Apatow, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Cary Grant

Highlights from the filmography of actor Cary Grant
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Cary Grant, George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story, Merrily We Go To Hell, Chicago Filmmakers, Dyke Delicious, Dorothy Arzner, Alfred Hitchcock, Leo McCarey, Stanley Donen, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday, Sylvia Scarlett, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Katherine Hepburn, Charade, Stanley Donen, The Grass is Greener, Peter Stone, Robert Mitchum, Notorious, Dave Kehr, The Awful Truth, Judd Apatow

Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2013
All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green (part two)

The director of Prince Avalanche expounds on his creative process, what makes him laugh, and the influence of Super Mario Brothers on his new film.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Comedy, David Gordon Green, interview, The Sitter, Prince Avalanche, Jonah Hill, Undertow, Snow Angels, All the Real Girls, Your Highness, Morse code, Howard Hawks, Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Craig Zobel, Judd Apatow, Super Mario Brothers, Buster Keaton

Blogs, Bleader Aug 11, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Rediscoveries

Top five film rediscoveries
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, The Hitchcock 9, Music Box Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Upstream, Werner Schroeter, Aleksei German, The Cable Guy, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, I Love You, Man, Superbad, Deja Vu, Tony Scott, Unstoppable, Domino, The Gremlins, Joe Dante, Snow White, Singin' in the Rain, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donan, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2013
What movies are doing to dope

This Is the End is the latest mainstream comedy to take a casual attitude toward getting high.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: The Reefer, Film, Adaptation, cannabis, Charlie Kaufman, Cheech and Chong, Evan Goldberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Judd Apatow, marijuana, Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen, stoner humor, Terrence Malick, This Is the End, To the Wonder, What Dope Does to Movies

Blogs, Bleader Jan 3, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: D'Angelo, "Send It On"

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is D'Angelo's sensual stunner "Send It On," from his acclaimed album Voodoo
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Dim the Lights, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, D'Angelo, Voodoo album, Undeclared TV show, Judd Apatow, Soulquarians, ?uestlove, Roy Hargrove, J Dilla, James Poyser, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 21, 2012
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Quentin Tarantino's thousand-bullet clip, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, Columbia Pictures, Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, Prophet movie, Jean Gentil, Barrymore movie, Christopher Plummer, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, The Impossible movie, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise, Lee Childs, Les Miserables, Scrooge and Marley, A Christmas Carol, This Is 40, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Funny People, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Whale, Frankenstein, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Royal Wedding, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Tue 12/18: Graham Parker and The Rumour, Justin Cooper, and The Second City That Never Sleeps

What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, December 18, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Graham Parker & the Rumour, Park West, Judd Apatow, This Is 40, Three Chords Good, Peter Margasak, Brooklyn, Justin Cooper, Monique Meloche Gallery, Board, The Second City, The Second City That Never Sleeps: Letters to Santa, Fred Armisen, Jason Sudeikis, Olivia Wilde, Jeff Tweedy, Kim Deal, Onward Neighborhood House

Columns & Opinion, On Media Jul 24, 2012
Death of a cowboy

Where have all the male role models gone?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Marlboro, Marlboro man, male role models, cigarettes, David Brooks, The End of Men, education, cigarettes, Seth Rogan, Judd Apatow, Prince Hal, Viceroy slicksters, advertising, teenage independence

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2012
Thoughts on Cinema Scope's "Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50" list

I finally had a chance to sit down with Cinema Scope magazine's 50th issue
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Cinema Scope magazine, The Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50, Wes Anderson, Ben Rivers, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Johan Grimonperez, Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, James Gray, Mia Hansen-Love

Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2012
Yes, do let them (or, Wilder at heart)

Considering the similarities between Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen (whose Let the Bullets Fly just opened in Chicago) and the great Billy Wilder
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Comedy, Jiang Wen, Billy Wilder, Let the Bullets Fly, Devils at the Doorstep, Judd Apatow, Some Like It Hot, Avanti!, Funny People, 21 Jump Street

Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2012
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Now showing: Wanderlust

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are New Yorkers experiencing a hippie commune in the latest from Role Models director David Wain
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Judd Apatow, David Wain, Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2011
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Best of 2011, number 2: Bridesmaids

J.R. Jones on Bridesmaids, his second-favorite film of 2011.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, Annie Hall, Frank Capra, You Can't Take It With You, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids, Paul Feig, Freaks and Geeks, Annie Mumalo, Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts, Patsy Kelly, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2011
Not in theaters: Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret

A reflection on Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret and the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Bridesmaids.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret, Anna Paquin, Judd Apatow, Bridesmaids, Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Albert Brooks, J.R. Jones, improv comedy, alternative comedy, film editing, atheism, J. Camerson-Smith, pillow shots

Blogs, Bleader May 12, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Universal Pictures, Bridesmaids, Judd Apatow, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Funny People, Albert Brooks, The Double Hour, Meeks' Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Coming Back for More, Sly Stone, The Devil's Trap, Frantisek Vlacil, Everything Must Go, Raymond Carver, Will Ferrell, Forks Over Knives, Hesher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Make Believe, World Magic Seminar, Mia and the Migoo, Twelve Thirty movie, Josef von Sternberg, Dishonored, Portage theater, Clara Bow, It movie, It Clara Bow, Music Box, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid movie, The Kid Chaplin, Gene Siskel Film Center, Wim Wenders, King of the Road, Block Museum of Art, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie movie, Marnie Hitchcock, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Metropolis Fritz Lang, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, Peter Pan movie, Wilmette theater, Bela Tarr, Satantango, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review May 12, 2011
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Funny Girls

With Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig and company crash the boys' club of big-screen comedy
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Paul Feig, Rose Byrne, Judd Apatow, Annie Mumolo, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 25, 2008
Here we go again . . .

Forgetting Sarah's easy ... but what about Wong Kar-wai?
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, Sex Is Comedy, Catherine Breillat, Bruno Dumont, Wong Kar-wai, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, My Blueberry Nights, Jonah Hill, Natalie Portman, Norman Foster, Journey Into Fear, Twentynine Palms, Zabriskie Point

Blogs, Bleader Apr 2, 2008
Without a trace

What ever happened to John Hughes?
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, GreenCine Daily, Dogma, John Hughes, LA Times, Kevin Smith, J.D. Salinger, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Drillbit Taylor, Owen Wilson, Northbrook, Illinois, Shermer, Illinois, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2007
Make mine music

John C. Reilly plays the Cubby Bear to beat the drum for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
- By Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, Across the Universe, Julie Taymor, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, John C. Reilly, Cox Across America, Jake Kasdan, Once, Enchanted, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, movie musicals, Oscar, Golden Globes

Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2007
Follow that bird

What robins, sparrows, and pigeons have to tell us about the movies
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, How I Got Into College, Savage Steve Holland, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Catastrophe theory, Birding

Blogs, Bleader Sep 19, 2007
That's not funny

A good "movie-movie" comedy is hard to find.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Brand Upon the Brain!, Knocked Up, Judd Apatow, Aki Kaurismaki, Lights in the Dusk, Sex Is Comedy, Catherine Breillat, Anne Parillaud, Sarah Silverman, Rob Zombie, The Forty-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Delirious, Fay Grim, White telephone movie

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