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Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (Blu-ray)

February 16, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Will Forte, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn
Running Time: 95 mins
Certificate: U
Release Date: February 17th 2014

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs was a surprise success – a movie that on paper sounded too bizarre to find a mass audience, but thanks to wit, immense inventiveness and a clever use of its premise grossed over $240 million around the world. The sequel isn’t quite as good as the first movie, but it’s still a lot of fun.

Following the events of the first film, the island that inventor Flint Lockwood lived on is now covered in the food that his fantastical machine managed to create. As a result Live Corp and its chief, Chester V (who’s Flint hero), agree to step in with promises to clean things up, while giving everyone a home on the mainland in the meantime. Flint is given a job at Live Corp, where he’s always wanted to work. [Read more…]

Nebraska Trailer – Will Forte & Bruce Dern star in the latest from Sideways director Alexander Payne

September 17, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Alexander Payne’s Nebraska has been generating interest at film festivals, and now we get to take out first look at the black and white film. Payne has been trying to make the film for years. Now it’s in the can and set for an Oscar qualifying US run later this year.

The movie follows Bruce Dern as a struggling alcoholic who believes he has won a sweepstakes lottery, so he hops in the car with his underachiever of a son (Will Forte) to claim his prize. ‘Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America.’

Black and white is going to be a tough sell to mainstream audiences, but Payne’s films are almost always worth a look. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Will Forte, Bruce Dern DIRECTORS: Alexander Payne FILMS: Nebraska

Will Forte & Jason Sudeikis Lock Lips In A New Mumford & Sons Video

August 5, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Mumford & Sons have certainly pulled in some great comedy names for the video for Hopeless Wanderer. They’ve got Jason Bateman, Ed Helms, Jason Sudeikis and Will Forte to parody the band, with Forte and Sudeikis even locking lips at one point for some full-on saliva swapping.

It’s a lot of fun and it looks like the comedy lads had a good time making the vid, giving a bit of an American country vibe to the British folk band.

It’s not a bad song either. (And just take a look at Jason Bateman’s face in the screenshot below, as he doesn’t seem to be enjoying this bit of man-love). [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Jason Bateman, Ed Helms, Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 Trailer – Take a look at the pun-tastic sequel

February 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs was a bigger hit than many expected, so it’s little surprise a sequel is coming. Now the first trailer for the movie has arrived, showing us just how many food puns it’s going to try and squeeze in.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picks up where Sony Pictures Animation’s hit comedy left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood’s genius is finally being recognized as he’s invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. Chester’s right-hand-gal – and one of his greatest inventions – is Barb (a highly evolved orangutan with a human brain, who is also devious, manipulative and likes to wear lipstick. It’s always been Flint’s dream to be recognized as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids – “foodimals!” With the fate of humanity in his hands, Chester sends Flint and his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world again!’

The movie is due out in the UK on October 25th, with a late September debut for the US.

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ACTORS: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Will Forte DIRECTORS: Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn FILMS: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2

Will Forte and Tim Robbins Take On Switch, Replacing Dennis Quaid and Ty Burrell

January 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Jackie Brown prequel Switch is having a bit of a Switch of its own, as actors Will Forte and Tim Robbins have signed up to replace Ty Burrell and Dennis Quaid in the movie, who’ve had to step away due to scheduling issues, according to Variety.

The film, based on Elmore Leonard’s novel, is set 15 years before the events in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, following Louis Gara (John Hawkes) and Ordell Robbie (Yasiin Bey) who join forces to kidnap Mickey (Jennifer Aniston) , the wife of a real estate magnate (Tim Robbins). Their plan goes awry when the husband refuses to pay the ransom, leading Mickey to use her abductors for revenge.

Will Forte is set to play Marshall Taylor, a member of Mickey’s country club who witnesses the kidnapping and has a serious crush on Mickey. Isla Fisher is also onboard to play a younger version of Melanie, originally played by Bridget Fonda in Jackie Brown.

Daniel Schechter is directing from his own adapted screenplay. Production is scheduled to begin next month.

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ACTORS: Will Forte, Tim Robbins, Dennis Quaid, Ty Burrell, Jennifer Aniston DIRECTORS: Daniel Schechter FILMS: Switch

Bob Odenkirk On For Alexander Payne’s Nebraska

September 4, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Having started out as a writer on Saturday Night Live, Bob Odenkirk is best known for out and out comedy, usually of the rather silly type, but more recently he’s been flexing his muscles in Breaking Bad.

Now he’s teaming up with director Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) for Nebraska, with Omaha.com reporting that Stacey Keach is also aboard. June Squibb, who played Jack Nicholson’s wife in About Schmidt is in talks to play Dern’s other half in this.

The long-gestating project, which Payne has been working on for years, will follow Bruce Dern as a struggling alcoholic who believes he has won a sweepstakes lottery, so he hops in the car with his underachiever of a son (Will Forte) to claim his prize.

Odenkirk will play Forte’s older brother, while Stacey Keach is set to be an old colleague of Dern’s grumpy central figure. The movie set to start shooting on October 15.

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ACTORS: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, Bob Odenkirk, Stacey Keach DIRECTORS: Alexander Payne FILMS: Nebraska

Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (DVD)

August 28, 2012 By Tim Isaac 2 Comments

Starring: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Will Ferrell, Will Forte, John C. Reilly
Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Running Time: 93 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: September 3rd 2012

Thanks to the TV series Tom Goes To The Mayor and Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have quite the cult following and so have decided to move into film with Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie. To do so they’ve teamed up with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Funny Or Die, and with cameos from Ferrell, Jeff Goldblum, Zach Galifianakis, Will Forte, John C. Reilly, it all sounds like this should be hilarious.

Sadly it isn’t – or more accurately, it has some very funny moments, but largely it’s just dumb. You get the feeling Tim & Eric are people who know how to make comedy in bite-sized chunks but have floundered when trying to stretch things out to feature-length. The bits that work are essentially slightly surreal sketches within the main narrative, but everything inbetween is either dull, stupid or just plain lazy. It also suffers from the comedy killer that is briefly destroying the characters that have been built up just for a cheap joke. [Read more…]

Alexander Payne Seeks Bruce Dern & Will Forte For Nebraska

May 16, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It took Alexander Payne seven years to get a follow-up to Sideways made, but he’s hoping that it’ll be a lot quicker to get his low budget movie Nebraska made. Deadline reports that he’s already thinking about casting it, and has zeroed on on the actors he wants for the lead role, Bruce Dern and Will Forte.

While neither actor has been approached yet, the chance to work with Payne will be tough to pass up, so we’d expect them to sign on. If they do, Dern will play a struggling alcoholic who believes he has won a sweepstakes lottery, so he hops in the car with his underachiever of a son (Forte) to claim his prize.

While SNL star Forte is only really known for full-on comedy, he’s struck me as a versatile talent. Payne obviously agrees, and believes he can do justice to his brand of drier humour. The director hopes to shoot the black and white road trip film before the end of the year.

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ACTORS: Will Forte, Bruce Dern DIRECTORS: Alexander Payne