Monday: The Late Show With David Letterman
All eyes will be on the big guy tonight, the first show since Dave Letterman’s announcement last Thursday sent the world into a weird whipped up frenzy (Friday night’s show, with Larry David, was taped before the scandal broke). Call us crazy, but Read More
Monday: Wet Hot American Summer
Does anyone do absurd comedy better than David Wain? Sure, Role Models might have been the most formulaic Judd Apatow movie that Judd Apatow didn’t have anything to do with, but the last act—a full on LAIRE (Live Action Interactive Role-playing Explorers) battle royale complete with KISS make-up Read More
A note to future studio executives: don’t bother opening movies on Halloween. The box office took a hit last weekend with nearly every movie in the top-five coming in with lower numbers then had been anticipated. This week that should change with the release of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which is expected to pull down Read More
Director David Wain has had a cult following since his 1993 sketch comedy show The State, which he made with college buds Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. Wain obsessives followed him to summer camp for 2001′s Wet Hot American Summer and then in 2007, they got a mixed-reviewed The Ten (the Czar interviewed Read More
“We just thought the Ten Commandments were a great thing to hang a bunch of stories on,” said David Wain of the new feature film The Ten, which he directed and co-wrote. Hey, that’s what Cecil B. DeMille said!
Mr. Wain’s version, a comedy, consists of 10 stories, each loosely corresponding Read More
