Will Ferrell

By Sherry Lipp Several notable SNL alumni made their way to the show via The Groundlings including, Phil Hartman, Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, Kristen Wiig, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell, and Jon Lovitz. ...

Will Ferrell is an actor who can be uproariously funny. The problem is that he can also be terribly unfunny. When entering into a Will Ferrell movie, ... Step Brothers' is raw comedy genius Independent Collegian (subscription) Step Brothers" - Ferrell's Finally Back OSU - The Lantern

By Blake Matthews I’ve been a fan of Will Ferrell since his “Saturday Night Live” days and loved him in Elf, Anchorman, and Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back just to name a few of his hilarious movies. This time out we have The Semi-Pro where he plays Jackie ...

By Matt Paprocki While Blades of Glory takes some time to get moving, when it does, it’sa priceless laugh out loud comedy. John Heder stars alongside Will Ferrell, playing a character eerily similar to the one he portrayed in Talladega Nights. ...

By Blake Matthews Blades of Glory is the story of world-class figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) who are not only arch rivals but also have polar opposite personalities. Jimmy is generally given to ...

By Gray Hunter Will Ferrell and Adam McKay do some funny work and they’ve recently collaborated with Michael Kvamme, an aspiring young comedian, to create the website Funny or Die. It’s a huge catalog of videos from people around the country, some trying to be funny and some actually succeeding.

By Chris Beaumont Christopher Beaumont spends much of his time writing about entertainment when he isn't sitting in a movie theater. He is known around the office as the "Movie Guy" and is always ready to talk about his favorite form of entertainment and offer up recommendations. Interests include science...

By Cameron Archer Let's get this out of the way. SNL in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (May 6, 9-11 PM, NBC) has the same problems as SNL in the '80s had, albeit not as noticeably. Clips and musical guests still don't match the seasons. Not everyone from the 1990s versions of SNL offer interviews for the documentary...

By Matthew Milam If you are black and named Will Ferrell, no movie. If you are white and named Will Ferrell, the checks can't come fast enough. What happens when you replace the word "black" and replace it with "Asian"? You will find the results are about the same, especially if you are an Asian male.

By Chris Beaumont I hope all of you had a happy Easter at the movies. Comedy ruled the box office this weekend. Will Ferrell and his figure skating pals in Blades of Glory retained the top spot, slipping a mere 32%. Following right behind it is the latest Disney outing Meet the Robinsons, which also held onto a goo...

By General Disdain Will Ferrell is at again. Once more we have him playing a buffoon character toppled from the heights of fame and power. It's his bread and butter and he'll continue to push this shit out until it becomes unpopular. As a matter of fact, just last year Ferrell squeezed out Talladega Nights: The Ba...

By Chris Beaumont Will Ferrell and Jon Heder skated right past the competition as Blades of Glory made short work of all of this week's competition. Following last week's wholesale swap of titles as the market was flooded with six new films, this week had a more modest slate of two wide releases. Both of those f...

By Neil Miller Somewhere it is happening. It is most likely occurring on a college campus somewhere, and it involves that guy we all know. Somewhere that guy is walking up to some random girl and spouting, “I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I have many leath...

By Neil Miller Why do I know this is happening? Because that is the power of a great Will Ferrell comedy; it stays with you long after you leave the theater. It stays with some longer than others, but the one-liners always stick. And as much of a fan as I have been of these movies (Anchorman, Talladega Nights, E...

By Neil Miller In The Lookout, Joseph Gordon-Levitt continues his trend of breaking away from being that kid from 3rd Rock From the Sun and moving towards being a serious dramatic presence on the silver screen. It is a trend that really began back in 2004 with his stunning performance in Mysterious Skin a...

By Chris Beaumont Blades of Glory covers familiar ground and doesn't really strike out in any new directions. The biggest problem with the film is that it moves along in spurts and leaps rather than having a strong flow. The plot moves along in those in-between areas that link the moments where Ferrell can car...

By Kaonashi While Blades of Glory was funny, it wasn't nearly as brilliant as Talladega Nights. What's great about Talladega Nights was that much of the humor lay in the ad-libbed dialog from the cast. It's a lot more quotable, and to me, it becomes more memorable. Blades of Glory relied more on visual hum...

By Neil Miller This week's pick is one of the more underrated films from both 2006 and Will Ferrell. Stranger than Fiction tells the story of Harold Crick (Ferrell), an IRS auditor whose stale life is consumed with his love for numbers -- so much so ...

By Ray Wong The ideas around Stranger Than Fiction are so cliched and commonplace among writers that they actually become intriguing. Every fiction writer has writer's block, and they all have felt that godlike power and that their characters are real. So what if their characters are real -- that the...