Feel that morning chill? That's right, it's undoubtedly September, and film fans should be rejoicing. Goodbye and good riddance, August 2011, you were not one of those Augusts that defied the stereotype as the summer dumping ground. In the past few years, auteurs like Edgar Wright ("Scott Pilgrim vs...
Read More »Since his breakthrough role as the deadpan “geek” Bill on the acclaimed but woefully ratings-deficient TV show “Freaks and Geeks,” Martin Starr has carved out a successful niche for himself playing characters who fortify themselves against the slings and arrows of the world with deadly, razor-sharp wit. But in his new film “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy,” Starr backs into that persona from a different point of view, playing a cool rock musician who is secretly paralyzed by quandaries as simple as whether or not to wear a hat on the cover of his debut album. When asked how much he could relate to in the new comedy, which was written and directed b...
Read More »The following is a reprint of our review from the Tribeca Film Festival.
Read More »The marketing machine behind the upcoming ensemble sex comedy "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy" has now kicked into full gear as just after a batch of clips and pics from the film hit late last week, your Monday is getting kicked off with a red band trailer for the flick. And you know what? It's pretty am...
Read More »Considering "Horrible Bosses" has turned into a respectable late summer hit for SNL star Jason Sudeikis, it's a little surprising to see his next film "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy" (due out September 2nd) still flying under the radar. The film made its debut back in April at the Tribeca Film Festival where our reviewer called it a good update of the classic slob comedies of the 70s and 80s like "Stripes" and "Animal House." This writer also got a chance to check the film out at the fest and while it's not in the league with those films, it had a nice rough-around-the-edges charm that recalls the general looseness of that era. It's pretty much t...
Read More »It's summer, and by the looks of these latest posters, it seems the real graphic designers are on vacation and the interns are stepping in the while they're gone and they might have some explaining to do. The term "Photoshop disaster" is thrown around pretty liberally and sometimes without merit, bu...
Read More »Orgies, generally speaking, tend not to be most riveting stuff on film, as anyone who suffered through Tom Cruise’s winding, nonsensical journey to see wife Nicole Kidman Julienne Davis get violated by strangers in a country house whilst wearing a mask in “Eyes Wide Shut” will no doubt agree. You'd think the "raunchy" trailer for the Apatowian “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” – which sounds like it was a good title before it was a good screenplay - would aim to explode this notion quicker than you can say “Fidelio” with an onslaught of middle-class thirty-somethings disrobing and engaging all kinds of bad behavior. As it is, there's little of th...
Read More »'A Good Old Fashioned Orgy' Will Take Up Your Labor DayThat's right folks, with the 2012 calendar already filling up, studios are now beginning to look two years down the road at 2013 and start planting their tentpole flags. "Elysium," "Oz The Great And Powerful," "Iron Man 3" and "Oblivion" are jus...
Read More »The slob comedy, an invention of the American counterculture of the sixties and seventies that tore down movies’ perception of onscreen propriety, has miraculously survived in various forms since Bill Murray and his “Saturday Night Live” cronies started smirking on the big screen. Every time someone...
Read More »Also 'Swinging With The Finkels' & 'A Good Old Fashioned Orgy'A batch of posters to get your day started, so let's get right to these then shall we?
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