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Friday Dec 11 | Firstshowing.net

Watch This: Adam Scott & Brittany Snow in The Vicious Kind

Another indie film potentially lost in the mix. The first official trailer for The Vicious Kind has debuted over on YouTube .

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Related Topix: Hairspray, Comedy Movies, Music!, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Spider-Man, Thriller, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Wed Dec 09, 2009

411mania.com

Up in the Air Review

Up in the Air Review Posted by Chad Webb on 12.09.2009 For a movie that spends a lot of time in planes, the mile high club is never mentioned... George Clooney: Ryan Bingham Vera Farmiga: Alex Gorana Anna Kendrick: Natalie Keener Jason Bateman: Craig Gregory Amy Morton: Kara Bingham Melanie Lynskey: Julie Bingham Danny McBride: Jim Miller J.K.

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Related Topix: Up in the Air, Comedy Movies, Thank You for Smoking, Smoking, Medicine, Health, Movies, Entertainment

Sat Dec 05, 2009

North Jersey Media Group

Review: "Up in the Air"

Directed by Jason Reitman. Produced by Jeffrey Clifford, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman.

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Related Topix: Up in the Air, Comedy Movies, Thank You for Smoking, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, Sam Elliott

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Crosswalk

Heart, Humor and a Timely Launching Pad Elevate "Up in the Air"

Release Date: December 4, 2009 ; December 25, 2009 Rating: R Run Time: 109 min. Genre: Comedy/Drama Director: Jason Reitman Actors: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, J.K. Simmons, Amy Morton, Melanie Lynskey, Sam Elliott, Danny McBride, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Lowell, Steve Eastin Since oh-so-many movies sit on the ...

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Related Topix: Up in the Air, Comedy Movies, Thank You for Smoking, Sam Elliott, Theater, Arts, Movies, Entertainment

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Denver - News, Events, Restaurants, M...

Starz Denver Film Festival closes with weak surprise, strong film:...

Surprise! J.K. Simmons is in town! Oh, wait: you already knew that... Last week, the folks behind the Starz Denver Film Festival ballyhooed a last-minute addition to the schedule -- a Sunday screening of a picture "on a clear runway to the Oscars" that would be introduced by a "surprise" appearance by an "award-winning and acclaimed actor" from the ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air, Oscars

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Minnesota State University, Mankato, ...

Grounded in the air

Jason Reitman sat down with the Reporter and other college publications at the Grand Hotel in Minneapolis to talk about his new film, "Up in the Air," starring George Clooney, J.K. Simmons and Jason Bateman.

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Related Topix: Up in the Air, Comedy Movies, Thank You for Smoking, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Sep 24, 2009

Cinema Blend News

Niagara Falls Hosting Big Stars This Fall, Somehow

When you think of a first-time filmmaker making a movie in his hometown of Niagara Falls, you think of wrangling all your friends to be extras, scrounging together enough money for digital tape, and begging the financing from your parents.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Celebrity, Battlestar Galactica, Science Fiction TV, Entertainment, Television

Tue Sep 15, 2009

Film.com

Five Films We Can't Wait For

C. Robert Cargill , Sep 15, 2009 Well, summer silly season is over and we're wading into the genre dumping ground of September.

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Related Topix: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Comedy Movies, Thank You for Smoking, Movies, Entertainment, Avatar, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, The Box

Wed Sep 09, 2009

Honolulu Weekly

White trash redux

Mike Judge, creator of-huh-huh, huh-huh- Beavis and Butthead, returns to live-action motion pictures with Extract , a comedy nowhere near as funny and immortal as his Office Space , but a step above the straight-to-video Idiocracy, too.

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Related Topix: Extract, Mike Judge, Jason Bateman, Away We Go, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Sep 06, 2009

Variety

Up in the Air

A Paramount release presented in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios of a Montecito Pictures Company production, in association with Rickshaw Pictures, in association with Right of Way Films.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Thank You for Smoking, Mixed Martial Arts, Jim Miller, Sam Elliott

Sat Sep 05, 2009

Film School Rejects

Kevin Carr's Weekly Report Card for 09.04.09

Rated: R for language, sexual references and some drug use. Directed by: Mike Judge What ita s about: Joel runs an extract factory and is hoping to sell it to General Mills.

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Related Topix: Extract, Mike Judge, Jason Bateman, Comedy Movies, Wedding Crashers, Will Ferrell

Fri Sep 04, 2009

SF Gate

Review: 'Extract' - a life derailed by oddballs

Comedy. Starring Jason Bateman. Directed by Mike Judge. Meet Joel. Joel owns an extract factory.

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Related Topix: Extract, Mike Judge, Jason Bateman, Small Business, Personal Finance

Thu Sep 03, 2009

The SouthtownStar

Judge's ridiculous 'Extract' tastes too bland

Ten years ago, Mike Judge satirized the absurdities of the workplace experience from the perspective of put-upon employees with "Office Space." That movie didn't do much when it came out, but "Office Space" became a cult favorite on cable and home video, to the point where it changed the way you looked at the stapler.

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Related Topix: Extract, Mike Judge, Jason Bateman, Hodgkins, IL, Entertainment

Potomac News

Review: Judge a Extractsa more humor from workplace

"Extract" - Mike Judge has a real affection for hard working, simple folk who like in small communities.

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Related Topix: Extract, Mike Judge, State of Play, Jason Bateman, Spider-Man, Thriller, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Opinion, Entertainment

Wed Sep 02, 2009

Broward/Palm Beach News, Events, Rest...

Mike Judge Goes Back to Work With Extract

J.K. Simmons, Bateman: Soul crushing. Details: Extract , starring Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunis, and J.K. Simmons.

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Related Topix: Extract, Mike Judge, Jason Bateman, Movies, Entertainment

Sat Aug 22, 2009

The Victoria Star

Looking for a new Closer

TV and film actor J.K. Simmons, of the police drama The Closer and the Spider-Man movies, and his actress wife, Michelle Schumacher, have put their Hollywood Hills-area contemporary on the market at $1,795,000 The two-storey view home, built in 1999, sits on more than half an acre on a gated street.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, The Closer, Television, Spider-Man, Thriller, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Oz, Home, Home Listing

Mon Aug 17, 2009

Rotten Tomatoes

Extract

OFFICE SPACE's Mike Judge directs this comedy that is bursting with talent, from JUNO stars Jason Bateman and J.K. Simmons to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Kristin Wiig and FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL's Mila... OFFICE SPACE's Mike Judge directs this comedy that is bursting with talent, from JUNO stars Jason Bateman and J.K. Simmons to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's ...

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Related Topix: Extract, State of Play, Mike Judge, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck

Tue Aug 04, 2009

DVD Verdict

Oz: The Complete Fifth Season

"The Vikings, their brutality aside, had their moments of brilliance. At one point, they were such great shipbuilders, that Leif Eriksson and his crew sailed all the way to America.

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Related Topix: Oz, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Chuck Zito, Luke Perry

Mon Aug 03, 2009

DVD Verdict

Oz: The Complete Fifth Season

"The Vikings, their brutality aside, had their moments of brilliance. At one point, they were such great shipbuilders, that Leif Eriksson and his crew sailed all the way to America.

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Related Topix: Oz, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Chuck Zito, Luke Perry

Tue Jul 14, 2009

TV Squad

The Closer: Tapped Out

There's an old show biz line that goes, "Dying is easy, comedy is hard." Well, sometimes when dramas try a comic episode, it can be a little like death warmed over.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Closer, Action Movies, Spider-Man, Thriller, Science Fiction Movies, Burn After Reading

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