Devin Faraci

GREETINGS FROM SAN DIEGO

The Con is almost over, and so am I. It’s been long week for me and Dave Davis, one that began with getting up Tuesday morning at 4am for flights to Las Vegas. In Vegas we spent two days on the set of Zak Penn’s new improv poker comedy, The Grand (although I did get … Continue reading

REVIEW: CLERKS II

Why the hell did Kevin Smith make Clerks II? The answer has to be one of those commerce instead of art things – the film goes nowhere beyond the first one, and the characters end up at a place only slightly different from where they ended up in the first one. In fact, much of … Continue reading

REVIEW: MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND

I had a girlfriend who took 200 dollars in 20s out of my wallet and ripped them up before tossing them out of the window of a moving car. If she had superpowers I don’t doubt that she would have killed me. For me Ivan Reitman’s My Super Ex-Girlfriend isn’t a romantic comedy – it’s … Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: ZAK PENN ON HULK 2

Dave Davis and I are in Las Vegas right now, visiting the set of Zak Penn’s improv poker comedy, The Grand. It was 90 degrees at 7:30 this morning, but we haven’t been out of the hotel once – we’ve been watching Zak and his cast, which includes Werner Herzog, David Cross, Woody Harrelson, Cheryl … Continue reading

THE JOKE NASCAR DIDN’T WANT YOU TO SEE!

How does the anarchic comedic sensibilities of Anchorman director/star combo Adam McKay and Will Ferrell mesh with the middle American sensibilities of NASCAR? Not that bad, it turns out. When I attended the Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (when is this movie screening again? I love it!) junket, I asked Adam McKay if … Continue reading