Paul Rudd

That DFW Airport Hero Was Not Paul Rudd but Some Guy Named Ben Something

To the disappointment of the whole of the Internet, the blurry good Samaritan in the now infamous video of an apparent homophobe getting what was coming to him after attacking a man at DFW Airport is not actor Paul Rudd. Despite now retracted reports from Wonkette and D Magazine the man is, in fact, ... More >>

DFW Airport Homophobe Caught on Video Is McCleish Christmas Benham from Tennessee

Earlier Tuesday, we told you that we didn't yet know the identity of the drunk, gay-slurring man who attempted to assault a man at DFW airport before being tackled by a group of good Samaritans. Now we do. His name is McCleish Christmas Benham and he lives in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The police repo ... More >>

They Came Together Hilariously Wrecks the Rom-Com

The "Anti-Casting" of Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in Prince Avalanche Marks an Indie Return for David Gordon Green

The Prince Avalanche director finds life in the Texas rubble

How Friends Illustrates the Depressing Insularity of Our Lives

“I’ll be there for you ... and others in our census bracket”

Tina Fey's Great, but Admission Doesn't Have the Marks

Why There are So Few Great Marriage Movies

A new book explores why marriage movies are just like marriages: hard to make work.

Ring Cycle

Like marriage, This Is 40 is long, aimless and worth it.

In Magnolia Lounge's On the Eve, 1.21 Gigawatts of Fun

Searching for a Lifestyle That Fits in Wanderlust.

McG Drops Another Bomb with This Means War

Dwaine Caraway's Looking Out For the City

​On Wednesdays I keep the city council broadcasts dialed up in the office for the high irritainment value. Besides, you never know what'll happen. Take yesterday, for instance. There were a few things I wanted to keep an eye on, but at the bottom of the bottom of the list was Addendum Item No. 10, ... More >>

Best Films: 10 for 2012

You better watch out.

Our Idiot Brother: The Littlest Lebowski

Long-haired dreamer has predictably profound effect on his siblings.

How Do You Know: A Lesson in How to Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say.

Chef Tell: Morgan Wilson Can't Stop a Trainwreck

​I predicted in the premiere episode recap of Top Chef Just Desserts (because, like Gail Simmons, we must always refer to it as Top Chef Just Desserts and nothing other than Top Chef Just Desserts) that Princess Dexter (Seth) and Zamboyant (Zac) would prove to be powerful allies and/or enemies for ... More >>

Trying to Understand What Led to DPD Chief's Comments About Drinking and Date Rape

Illustration by Andrea Grimes​Update at 8:35 p.m.: The Dallas Police Department has sent a statement from Chief David Brown regarding his comments about the increase in the number of reported sexual assaults this year -- and the reaction to them. It reads, in full:Chief Brown wants to emphasize, " ... More >>

Dinner for Schmucks: Mental Disability As Comedy.

Idol Rich: And the Winner Is...

​This is, essentially, a "closure" post. I think we all have to come terms with the fact that Fort Worth/Cool's Casey James was let go in favor of the inferior Lee DeWyze. Whether or not I think CJ should be the American Idol, I've blogged the finale because he and a couple of other North Texans w ... More >>

It's So True: Anyone Can Host a Late-Night TV Talk Show. Yes, Even You.

​This got buried beneath the stack of legal docs currently devouring my desk, but I'd just hate it if you missed out on Your Big Break: Spike TV, the network for dudes and Star Wars movie marathons and Entourage reruns, is looking for a couple of broheims to host a talk show. Only, it's not yer av ... More >>

Cult Abomination

This Is The Dawning

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Wolfgang Puck Is One Saucy Fellow

Thanks to Videogum and, ultimately, our copy editor for bringing ABC News' Nightline's foray into romance to my attention. She shared it because of my Paul Rudd fascination, of which I am obviously not ashamed. But anyway. You get Rudd, Seth Rogen, Martin Bashir, Cheryl Hines and some other notables ... More >>

Monsters vs. Aliens: A One-Dimensional Story in Fantastic 3-D

Paul Rudd and Jason Segal Get Awkward: The Unfair Park Interview Loves You, Man

As promised a couple of weeks back, here's that Paul Rudd interview -- only, it's not the one we recorded in Dallas at the beginning of the month. Instead, this chat dates from last Saturday, the morning after I Love You, Man kicked off the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, where Rudd was ... More >>

I Love You Man: Celebrating Straight-Guy Man-Love

Role Models is Smarter and Bawdier Than Your Average Boys-to-Men Movie

How Cute: Jerry Jones and George Steinbrenner in the Catering Biz!

Boston

Tuesday, June 24, at Nokia Theatre

Jason Segel Uses His Balls to Great Effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Chafing Dishes

Film 2007: Revenge of the Nerds

Judd Apatow's pretty good year

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

It's a...Hit!

Judd Apatow delivers another spot-on geek fantasy come true in Knocked Up

Moving Pictures

AFI offers the usual slew of sympathetic losers, but a good measure of Zooey

The Whole Truth and Everything But

At South by Southwest, there's a lot of light shown in the dark

Rolling Out the Red Carpet

For a New Fest, AFI Has Plenty of Old-School Charm

AFI Fest Releases Lineup of Films and Guest List. Oh, Look: The Guy From Office Space

Yes, we're very excited David Lynch and Lauren Bacall are coming to AFI. But, c'mon, so's Ron Livingston. Yeeaaah. We just received the complete schedule for the inaugural AFI Dallas International film festival, which opens with a screening of Music Within at the Majestic Theater on March 22 and clo ... More >>

Cleveland's Rocks

Parker Posey and Paul Rudd get their OH faces on

Cherry on Top

The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes

Good News

Will Ferrell's Anchorman is dumb, and funny, as hell

Happy Campers

Summer lovin' with Wet Hot American Summer

Shape Shifter

This time it's the woman who manipulates the man in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things

House of Cards

Ugly Americans move into The Château

Like a sturgeon

There's a lot of worst things about Next Best Thing

Little orphan Tobey

Cider House recounts Homer's odyssey to find his very own life

Square to be hip

Coolness and a cast of dozens can't save 200 Cigarettes