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‘Call Me Lucky’ shines a spotlight on an inspirational story

Call Me Lucky introduces the film’s central figure, Barry Crimmins, to the audience as a government-hating, Catholic church despising curmudgeon. When the documentary heads to upstate New York to chronicle a scruffily bearded, firewood chopping Crimmins, now living in isolation, it makes total sense.

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Netflix picks up new Bob Odenkirk and David Cross sketch comedy series

Netflix has picked up With Bob and David, a new sketch comedy series by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Deadline reports the longtime comedy team will produce four half-hour episodes and an hourlong making-of special for the streaming service. Odenkirk and Cross will play dishonorably discharged Navy SEALS who try to serve their country by …

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How The Room’s unintentional absurdity hides its dark heart

The cult that is The Room is truly fascinating and turned Wiseau into the most unlikely of internet sensations. But the accidental comedy is a boon not just for us but for Tommy Wiseau himself. Were it not so funny, it would just be depressing or perhaps even infuriating.

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Arrested Development Season 4: Mixed season fails to recapture series’ heights

In the seven years since Fox cancelled Arrested Development, its influence has not necessarily been as widespread as one might expect, given its rapturous cult following. A few series have attempted to emulate its heavily serialized approach to building and contorting gags over episodes and even seasons – Archer, in particular, springs to mind, as …

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Stills from season 4 of Arrested Development emerge

Netflix and the stars of Arrested Development have done a pretty good job of keeping fairly coy about the upcoming season. Devoted fans have been kept waiting for a trailer or a sneak peek and Entertainment Weekly’s latest covers delivers with a detailed insight to the new episodes. When describing the new season, creator Mitch Hurwitz …

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‘It’s a Disaster’ lays out the welcome (haz)mat for apocalypse

It’s a Disaster Directed & Written by Todd Berger USA, 2012 If that dead end Mayan calendar taught the world nothing else during the past few years, it did help us all to cozy up to the concept of complete annihilation. The subject became as familiar a part of our well-balanced small talk as the …

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Arrested Development may be posting bail on the big screen

“Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz and his co-executive producer James Vallely are working on a screenplay for the long-debated feature version of their short-lived Fox series…Hurwitz would also direct the Fox Searchlight feature.” The groundbreaking series launched the career of future Juno star Michael Cera (a newcomer at that point) as well as making a …

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