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Rob Corddry Talks 'Hot Tub Time Machine' -- And How 'The Daily Show' Didn't Prepare Him for Hollywood

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Mar 22nd 2010 8:00PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews
Like 'Saturday Night Live,' 'The Daily Show' has become a breeding ground for comedic movie stars. But no matter how funny you are, appearing on a fake news program for roughly five minutes a week won't skyrocket you to above-the-title roles in major studio comedies. But it'll get your foot in the door. Like ex-correspondent Steve Carell in 'Bruce Almighty' and 'Anchorman,' Rob Corddry has chewed up the scenery (and was far and away the best thing about) movies like 'The Heartbreak Kid' and 'What Happens in Vegas.'

Now, like ex-correspondent Ed Helms in 'The Hangover,' Corddry has his first by-committee starring role. In the rather awesomely titled 'Hot Tub Time Machine,' Corddry bromances the night away with John Cusack, Craig Robinson and Clarke Duke as a foursome transported back to 1986 via a magical ski lodge Jacuzzi.
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John Cusack in the Rain

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Mar 17th 2010 4:45PM
Filed under: Video, The Moviefone Mash
You know that old cliché from cartoons where the gray cloud follows around a character, persistingly raining down on them?

In movies, that character is John Cusack.

You may not notice from a single viewing of classic Cusack material like 'Say Anything' or 'High Fidelity.' But watch enough JC films like us, and the trend becomes disturbingly apparent. We will say this, though. Cusack wears water better than any man out there -- no matter how frustrated he always seems to be in it.
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Heart-to-Hearts With 'Repo Men' Jude Law & Forest Whitaker in Exclusive Video Q&A

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Mar 17th 2010 12:15PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Video
One look at the trailer for 'Repo Men' and you know you're in for some grisly business. Flesh incisions are a common sight, as are bloody, freshly removed organs. "It should be shocking," says star Jude Law. "What's interesting about this is that it's set in a realistic world, and you should be shocked at how desensitized these guys are."

"These guys" are Remy (Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker), repo men in a not-so-distant futuristic metropolis who specialize in collecting organs from the unlucky souls who've fallen behind on payments to "The Union." In a way, the two are like corporate grim reapers; nothing quite kills your day like having your heart literally ripped from your chest.

"It's pretty heavy, I mean you can't make a movie about organ transplants without a little blood and gore," says Liev Schreiber, who plays Frank, Remy and Jake's smarmy superior at The Union. "[Director Miguel Sapochnik] definitely goes over the top in a wonderful way," adds Schreiber, who admits he "cringes a little" at the film's gore.
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Ben Stiller Talks 'Greenberg' and 'Zoolander 2' in Exclusive Q&A

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Mar 16th 2010 11:00AM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews
In the very simplest of terms, Ben Stiller is pulling what movie buffs would call a 'Punch-Drunk Love' or a 'Stranger Than Fiction' with his latest film, 'Greenberg.'

Like Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell in those two films, the funnyman famous for his work in broad comedy ('There's Something About Mary,' 'Meet the Parents,' 'Tropic Thunder,' etc) flexes serious dramatic chops as Roger Greenberg, a failed musician-turned-carpenter who moves from New York to L.A. to house sit for his brother shortly after suffering a nervous breakdown and spending time in a mental institution.

The film, written and directed by Noah Baumbach ('Squid and the Whale'), marks a career-best performance by Stiller, who imbues the title character with convincing ambiguity and instability. He's a character you feel uneasy watching, whether engaged in the mundane (regularly writing letters of complaint to Starbucks and other companies) or the momentous (continually screwing up his budding relationship with his brother's assistant, played by Greta Gerwig).
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Robert Pattinson, 'Remember Me' Co-Stars Answer Fans in Exclusive Video Interviews

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Mar 8th 2010 6:00PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews
There's no mistaking Tyler Hawkins for Edward Cullen.

Tyler -- the young romantic 'Twilight' heartthrob Robert Pattinson portrays in the new drama 'Remember Me' -- is still brooding, but more in a Holden Caulfield, disenfranchised upper-crest New Yorker sort of way (rather than, you know, troubled by the anxieties of blood-lust and immortality).

Pattinson and co-stars Pierce Brosnan, Emilie de Ravin and Chris Cooper, plus director Allen Coulter and screenwriter Will Fetters, hit New York recently to talk about the Manhattan-set drama. And since, well, we had a feeling the masses of R.Patz fans might be just a little bit enthused to have their existence officially acknowledged by the actor, we opened up the floor for fan-submitted questions.
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The Language of Johnny Depp

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Mar 3rd 2010 4:00PM
Filed under: Video, The Moviefone Mash
Johnny Depp has a language all his own.

Whether the 'Alice in Wonderland' star is creating his own vernacular, rambling incoherently or exploring the rarely trodden middle ground between lexeme and laughter, he may be the only actor in Hollywood who can make an art form out of saying, well, nothing.
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'Messenger' Writers Talk Oscar Hopes and 'Hurt Locker' Comparisons

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Feb 25th 2010 12:15PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Oscar News
For all the talk of 'The Hurt Locker' being David vs. 'Avatar's' Goliath at this year's Academy Awards, there are decidedly "smaller" films in hunt. Take that other Iraq War-themed film, 'The Messenger,' Oren Moverman's moving portrait of two solders in the U.S. army (Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson) faced with the inenviable task of notifying casualties' next of kin.

While Harrelson is a longshot in the Best Supporting Actor race -- a category all but sewn up by 'Inglourious Basterds' rogue Christoph Waltz -- the film's co-writers, Moverman (who previously co-penned the avant-garde Bob Dylan biopic 'I'm Not There') and Alessandro Camon (a veteran producer who's worked on such films as 'American Psycho,' 'Thank You for Smoking' and Oliver Stone's upcoming 'Wall Street' sequel) stand a better chance in the Best Original Screenplay field, where they're in good company with Quentin Tarantino ('Basterds'), the Coen brothers ('A Serious Man'), Mark Boal ('The Hurt Locker') and the co-writing team behind Pixar's 'Up.'
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