Posts Tagged ‘Leslie Mann’
Interview – Rob Minkoff – Mr. Peabody & Sherman
The MacGuffin had the pleasure of being a part of a roundtable interview in Dallas with Mr. Peabody & Sherman director, Rob Minkoff. Does that name sound familiar? He was also the director of the legendary Disney animated film The Lion King.
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SIFF Film Review – The Bling Ring
It turns out that if you raise your kids in Los Angeles with little-to-no supervision, home school them based on the principles of The Secret, get divorced, or move around a lot, your children are at risk for becoming entitled, drug-using, sociopathic thieves. Or not.…
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Getting to Know The Bling Ring
One of the many exciting events that occurred during SIFF 2013 was the closing night screening of Sofia Coppola’s latest film, The Bling Ring. As part of the promotion for the movie, I had a chance to meet two of its stars, Katie Chang and…
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Episode 215 – Leslie Mann
In honor of the release of This Is 40, Spencer and Greg discuss Leslie Mann.
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Film Review – This Is 40
Billed as a “sort-of sequel” to 2007’s Knocked Up, Judd Apatow’s This Is 40 sees Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann (Apatow’s real-life wife) reprising their roles as Pete and Debbie. Now five years later, their marriage is in something of a rut. Complacency can be…
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Film Review – ParaNorman
I love stop-motion animation. It played a big role in the formation of my movie sensibility growing up, particularly projects like Wallace & Gromit and The Nightmare Before Christmas. There is a sense of it being the rawest form of filmmaking to me, where you…
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Film Review – The Change-Up
I can only imagine what the pitch meeting was like when the idea to make The Change-Up (2011) was decided upon. The people who convinced the studio executives to greenlight this film must have been expert salesmen, because the premise is a tired and recycled…
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