POTD: Garry Shandling's Closest Friends Gather For One Last Basketball Game
Judd Apatow took to Instagram to post an image from one last Garry Shandling basketball game to pay tribute to the late comic, who loved to play each week.
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Showtime Ending 'Weeds' After Season 8
Enjoy the Weeds season premiere when it rolls around in a couple of weeks, because it'll be the show's last. Showtime has just announced that the Mary-Louise Parker-starring pot comedy will end for good after its upcoming eighth season. The news doesn't come entirely as a surprise. While it continues to pull decent ratings, its viewership has…
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Movie Trailer: Adam Sandler Romantic Comedy 'Just Go With It'
Sony has released the first movie trailer for the new Adam Sandler comedy Just Go With It. Directed by Dennis Dugan (Grown Ups, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Happy Gilmore), the valentine's week romantic comedy release tells the story of "a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend…
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Casting Notes: Jennifer Connelly In Cheaters; Sean Astin In And They're Off; Olga Kurylenko In Empires Of The Deep
Ron Howard's Cheaters already has Vince Vaughn, Kevin James and Winona Ryder. Now it has put out an offer to Jennifer Connelly for what will be, for her, a rare comedic role. She would be Vaughn's girlfriend; Vaughn plays a guy torn on the question of whether or not to tell his best friend (James)…
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Weeds Session: The Season Five Finale Ends With A Splash! But What Will The Repercussions Be?
Have you recovered from the shocking last scene of Weeds' season finale yet? In what appeared to us to be a grisly hat tip to Heathers, the show's entire family/criminal dynamic changed in a flash. It was a series-altering event that positions a certain character front-and-center for the sixth season. After the jump, we'll discuss…
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Weeds Session: Nancy Remains Desperate. Hello Adelita. Mexico's David Blaine? Only One Ep Left Before Season Finale
At the end of our previous Weeds Session, we pondered why the Botwin clan, and specifically Nancy, were not taking day offs from their, um, non-jobs to patron a shooting range. The stakes in season five more than necessitate practicing self-defense across the board. And, c'mon, surely, Cesar has a few pistolas or an AK-47…
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Weeds Session: Six Months Later It's Weird Beards, Ms. Pac-Man, Alanis Morissette, And The General Lee. Where Were (Are) We?
How long has it been since the last Weeds Session? Six months? Full Disclosure: We've been hesitant to turn on our television for fear of the sixth season of Entourage; seriously, that is the most dreadful show of the year. Doug Ellin might as well DM Tommy Wiseau to write and direct the next planned…
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Weeds Session: Is Episode "Van Nuys" The Nice Calm Before Another Botwin Storm? Monday's Episode Is Set Six Months Later
The previous three episodes of Weeds were the breeziest of the season and decidedly welcome after the brick-cold start. However, by now viewers are conditioned to expect another hellish crescendo to fall upon the resilient Botwins. It's like dysfunctional clockwork. And these days, even the lighthearted eps dance inside an atmosphere of widespread murder and…
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Weeds Session: Episode "Su-Su-Sucio" Offers Jokes, Hugs, Voyeurism, And Blood Relief
In our latest wrap-up and discussion of Weeds---a show where it's increasingly rare to see characters puffing the titular herb, mind you---we take a look at season cinco's third episode, "Su-Su-Sucio." After we found ourselves not so much stunned as exhausted and turned-off by the previous ep's k-hole of casual misery (and forced entry), we…
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Weeds Season 5 Trailer
Note: This post contains spoilers from the prior season. With the season finale of AMC's crystal-meth drama, Breaking Bad, airing this Sunday, the season premiere of Showtime's Weeds arrives right in time to [insert a tired pun for TV addiction]. Scheduled for June 8th, season five finds Mary Louise Parker's drug-dealing California mom/widow, Nancy Botwin,…
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Film News, Deals, Rumors, And Other Things We Missed Or Sneezed At
The G.I. Joe casting news marches on, blankly. The main villain in the film, the silver-headed Destro, will be played by theater actor David Murray [iesb.net], previously seen in Batman Begins as..."Jumpy Thug." A face you will recognize, actor Dennis Quaid's, is now set for General Hawk, the unkempt elder leader of the Joes. There's…
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