Paul Rudd

"Wanderlust": Hollywood Menagerie Keeps Film Fresh

"This Means War": Explodes Shallow Predictability

SF Sketchfest: Cast Reunion (and Radio Play) for Cult Comedy Wet Hot American Summer

In 2001's Wet Hot American Summer -- a raucous send-up of 1980s summer-camp movies -- the counselors vow to meet up 10 years later in 1991, when they'll all be in their late 20s, to see how they've fared. And just over a decade since the film's release, many of its main players reunited on stage at ... More >>

John Hodgman Explains the Beauty of the Internet

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Year in Film: Ten Films We Can't Wait to Watch in 2012

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

"Our Idiot Brother": Predictable and Shallow Indie Ensemble Comedy

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Early Summer Movie Guide: What to See, When to See It

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Paul Rudd on "Dinner for Schmucks" and playing himself

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

"Dinner for Schmucks": Mental disability as comedy

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

April Book Events: Mark Rudd, Cori Crooks, Chris Carlsson, and more

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Phil Bronstein on The Colbert Report: The Engine House is On Fire

Phil Bronstein, former executive vice president and editor of the Chronicle, now editor at large and newspaper doomsayer, was on The Colbert Report last night. Nothing particularly revelatory was said, which was not a surprise as the quick interviews that take place on the show are not so much an op ... More >>

Monsters vs. Aliens

In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.

Eternal Flame

In I Love You, Man, not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance.

Big Daddies

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

Sad Sack Extraordinaire

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

Chafing Dishes

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

Revenge of the Nerds

Judd Apatow's pretty good year

Hock the Line

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

Walk Hard: The first biopic to address bad tripping with the Beatles and slicing your sibling in half

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

It's a ... Hit!

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

Crisis in Suburbia

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

Cleveland's Rocks

Parker Posey and Paul Rudd get their OH faces on

A Dork Has His Day

The Baxter can't get the girl. Except maybe just this once.

Cherry on Top

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

Good News

Will Ferrell's Anchorman is dumb, and funny, as hell

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries

to be nice but

comes off very savage

Y1981

Neil LaBute tries

to be nice but

comes off very savage