Vince Vaughn

In Theaters Review: Couples Retreat

source: laviebelem (WordPress)

Thirteen years ago when Jon Favreau wrote the quirky and refreshingly comedic Swingers it started a little known actor by the name of Vince Vaughn whose satirical and quick-witted brand of comedy was gut-busting. Flash forward to the present after Vaughn has played the same guy from Swin...

Published Mon, Oct 12

Entertainment Weekly reviews Couples Retreat

source: Vaughn.com

Entertainment Weekly By Owen Gleiberman As the buddies of Swingers (1996), the classic L.A.-set guyville comedy that put the two of them on the map, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau had a new kind of snappishly disaffected camaraderie. They were friends who each acted like a spiky entourage of o...

Published Sat, Oct 10

Reel of Fortune: Movies Can't Leave Las Vegas

source: HappyNews.com

 TX The low-budget “Swingers” certainly enjoyed a jolt of color and flash when its anti-heroes road-tripped out of LA for a little blackjack. (Although I'd bet a stack of poker chips that Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, grateful though they may be over what ...

Published Mon, Jun 8

Jon Favreau, just a regular guy

source: Chicago Tribune

The egg-shaped actor from "Swingers"? Former Chicagoan and FOVV (Friend of Vince Vaughn)? Or should a filmmaker show more ambition before "most underrated" applies? At the moment, Favreau is deep into "Iron Man 2," which, considering the unadorned ...

Published Sat, Jun 6

It's okay to show love, man: the unwritten laws of bromance

source: The Age

 Australia I Love You, Man also stars Jon Favreau and Jaime Pressly as a volatile married couple. With Favreau, whose breakthrough role was with Vince Vaughn in the 1996 comedy Swingers, Pressly, best known for TV sitcom My Name is Earl, Rudd (Knocked Up and The ...

Published Thu, Jun 4

THE HANGOVER Review

source: blog.spout.com

That Jade is played by Heather Graham, however, is of some interest: Cooper and Helms seem to be playing extreme versions of the now-archtypical Vegas tourists created twelve years go by Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau in Swingers, a film in which Graham embodied a sweet rescue in contrast t...

Published Mon, Jun 1

Reel of fortune: Movies can't leave Las Vegas

source: MSNBC

The low-budget “Swingers” certainly enjoyed a jolt of color and flash when its anti-heroes road-tripped out of LA for a little blackjack. (Although I'd bet a stack of poker chips that Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, grateful though they may be over what ...

Published Mon, Jun 1

Paul Rudd (L) and Jason Segel star in “I Love You, Man”

source: Thanh Nien Daily

After acting in “Swingers” and “Made” with a not-yet-famous Vince Vaughn, Favreau moved to directing, helming “Elf,” “Zathura” and, most recently, ... and more »

Published Sun, May 31