Seth Rogen

The Rom-Com Clichés Parade on Through Language of a Broken Heart

Seth Rogen Takes His Centrum Silver in The Guilt Trip

Modern prematurity

The Man Behind Barbra's New Movie

Barbra Streisand returns to the screen where she belongs in The Guilt Trip, in which she and Seth Rogen go on a mother-and-son drive that puts them at cross purposes which melt into mutual appreciation. The film is written by Dan Fogelman, who based it on a real-life road trip he took with his moth ... More >>

Barbra Streisand Says Marlon Brando Wanted Her!

Last night I attended a special screening of The Guilt Trip with Seth Rogen fighting and bonding with mama Barbra Streisand on a car trip to settle some scores. And there was a live simulcast afterwards, with the two of them fielding questions from fans. (In New York, we watched it on the big scree ... More >>

The Watch

Sarah Polley Minds the Gap

On the release of her second feature, the filmmaker stares down emptiness

Take This Waltz

Streisand's Directing Her First Movie In 16 Years

If she can raise the money, that is. And it's pretty shocking that she's having trouble doing so considering that Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Colin Firth are attached to star in the film, which is called Skinny and Cat. Is it about Kate Hepburn and a very thin stutterer?

Subverting the Rom-Com in Safety Not Guaranteed and Lola Versus

Where love doesn't mean an insult to the audience's intelligence

Can You Tell These Five Actors Apart?

I know they're all different ages and sizes and types blah blah, but to me they're one big lovable zhlub. In fact, not since the reign of Kate Bosworth and Kate Beckinsale have I been so simultaneously starstruck and confused.

Cancer Memoir Meets Seth Rogen Comedy in the Slightly Uncomfortable 50/50

The Beastie Boys Get Back In Time In The Star-Packed "Make Some Noise" Video

​The Beastie Boys' video for their throwbacky new single "Make Some Noise"--off Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2, which comes out May 3--picks up right as the rager chronicled in the "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" video is letting out, with Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, and Elijah Wood pl ... More >>

Are You Smarter Than A Rock Critic?: Can You Name The American Idol Finalists?

Michael Becker/FOXWho are these people?​ For weeks, our weekly indignity parade "Are You Smarter Than A Rock Critic?" has been putting our writers at an unfair disadvantage, asking for the intimate details of long dead and gone artists like The Clash, The Doors and Metallica [yeah, no sic]. I ... More >>

The Fame Cookie: 2011 Grammy Awards Live Blog

It's the return of the most talked-about Grammy Awards live blog--a collection of quips, blips, and arguably insightful observations that dares to match the actual Grammy telecast in terms of pure spectacle and Justin Bieber mentions. Please join our hosts Tom Breihan and Ryan Dombal below, and keep ... More >>

Tying Up Your Dog and Leaving Him on the Street May Soon Be Illegal

​The good crusaders at Dogs Tied Up NYC (the local blog that takes pity on dogs whose owners tie them up outside by... taking photos of them and blogging about them!) may have reason to celebrate: amNY says the City Council is considering a law that would make it illegal to tie up dogs for mo ... More >>

Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet: Superhero Slob

This Week's Voice: Mavis Staples, Shilpa Ray, and More

Mavis Staples: For kids aged 8-80. Photo by Chris Strong.​In this week's Village Voice, Amy Linden talks with soul icon/golden girl Mavis Staples about her collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, and David Cotner profiles local wailer Shilpa Ray.

Bob Denver's Wife Speaks Out About the Gilligan's Island Movie

​It was inevitable that the three-hour tour would be turned into a two-hour movie. And the original Gilligan's real-life widow,Dreama Denver, is OK with it. Rumors have Michael Cera possibly getting cast as Gilligan, Seth Rogen playing Skipper, and Beyonce vamping it up as Ginger.

David Byrne Jumped Onstage With Crowded House To Do "Once In A Lifetime" Last Night

With Seth Rogen on drums! Dave almost wipes out on a water bottle right at the onset, and there's like a Super Mario Bros. power-up mushroom onstage for some reason, but otherwise this is a totally normal evening at the Bowery Ballroom. They also rumbled through "Road to Nowhere" as per below, tho ... More >>

Who's The Funniest Male Comic in Films Today?

NBC​I'll get to the ladies later. But which goofy male refugee from TV does the suckerfish faces and pants-dropping tricks that make you smile the hardest? *Steve Carell. He does a mean deadpan and is refreshingly willing to play douches. *Ben Stiller. I'm guessing his recent venture into r ... More >>

T.J. Miller Is Main Selling Point of She's Out of My League

THE HIGH LIFE

See  Pineapple Express the way Mother Nature intended

Apatow and Sandler Confront Mortality in Funny People—Sort Of

Seth Rogen's Porn Admissions

 Requiem For a Paper Bag is a new book Found magazine put together with various notables discussing their favorite found objects. I did a piece for it about a plug-in Joe camel I grabbed off the street and after a lot of screaming, I finally found the check they owed me in the mail! Anyway, t ... More >>

5 New York 70s Movies We Are Terrified to See Remade

At the Observer today, Christopher Rosen, stimulated by the unfortunate new The Taking of Pelham 123, decries remakes of 70s New York classics. But his complaint is that "Only '70s period pieces remain locked inside the isolation of past events... We want '70s films to be something other than a ... More >>

Interview: Found Magazine's Davy Rothbart

"Jim Carroll goes to a colonic spa in San Francisco with a friend of his, and his friend shits out this plastic green army soldier... his friend, after the soldier was out of his system, he got a lot mellower." Davy's Sears-style portrait Eight years into a project that began when he discovered a ... More >>

FINDERS KEEPERS

FOUND magazine makes trash cool

Seth Rogen Wanders Another Shopper's Paradise in Observe and Report

Andy Samberg Swallows Sadness with Seth Rogen

Speaking of SNL, and Seth Rogen's cameo thereon, this also happened: a video for Lonely Island's "I'm A Boss," remixed as a performance review conducted between Rogen and Andy Samberg. Is it funny to parody a four-year-old Slim Thug song? We are not so sure. But we're always down to see literal de ... More >>

DreamWorks, In Your Face: The 3-D Majesty of Monsters vs. Aliens

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

Interview: Five Questions for The Wrestler's Necro Butcher

Quick Hits

Bartender Leo Cook of Bloomington, Indiana has won T.G.I. Friday's Utimate Beverage competition with his "Vanilla Lemon Ice," which will be served at Friday's restaurants starting today. The drink comprises Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka, triple sec, lemonade and Sprite. Bring the kids! A young Harlem moth ... More >>

The Force Is Weak With Long-Delayed Fanboys

How M.I.A. (and America) Got Her Swagger Back

The menace of "Paper Planes" trumps the frivolity of "American Boy." Both are good signs.

2008 Film Poll: Coming (at You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

ALL GROW’D UP

Aziz Ansari is the biggest star in the universe

Kevin Smith Blows His Wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno

9 Ways You'll $ave in the New Depression!

. . . AND ACTION!

Kevin Smith headlines Independent Film Week

Pineapple Express's True Bromance

Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love

Tatum O'Neal's and Seth Rogen's Drug Controversies

Rambo Is a Pussy. Director David Gordon Green Is Not

The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Comedy of Power

Yes, yes, we know. This was the YEAR OF APATOW. Beg to differ?

The VMAs: A Running Diary

Nerd Love

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

It's a . . . Hit!

Judd Apatow delivers another spot-on geek-fantasy-come-true with Knocked Up

Summer Movies: Free Air-Conditioning at the Cineplex

Too hot to deal? Take shelter in the cool and dark of the matinee.

The Opposite of Sex

These boots were made for knockin': Steve Carell finally loses his virginity in fratty chick flick