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Funny Or Die Reunites Pete & Pete

by | February 4th, 2013

Sometimes things do work out for ex-child stars… This is not one of those times.

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Your Favorite Childhood Movie Is Not Very Good

by | May 12th, 2011

Before I begin, let me put a disclaimer here: I love the 90's. In my fantasies, I would have been able to scrap up some level of fame prior to the airing of VH1's I Love The 90's, so that I could be a talking head next to Michael Ian Black, and tell the world how strongly I felt about the decade. However, sometimes re-watching something you once loved can lead to massive disappointment. Even though you may have memorized 70% of the movie's dialogue, you're shocked at the 30% of the dialogue that went over your head. Plus, with the rapid advancement of special effects today, badly executed [...]

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"The biggest early-90s trends currently revisiting us, after all, are recession, a stagnant job market and doubt about the worth of higher education."

by | August 4th, 2011

Here's Carl Wilson on the current wave of 90s nostalgia: "Are 1990s-evoking equivalents of The Big Chill or That ’70s Show sure to follow? Might Claire Danes be persuaded to star in 'My So-Called Adulthood'? Angela could be a mommy blogger wearing a lot of plaid flannel robes. I admit I would watch it, just as I can’t tear myself away from Winona Ryder’s romantic and financial travails in Reality Bites whenever I stumble on the 1994 movie on TV. (One of The Onion’s most biting headlines this year: 'Winona Ryder finally agrees to sleep with Generation X.') Such cultural comfort food comes with an acrid wave of reflux, [...]

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Mourning the Death of the Local Video Store

by | February 4th, 2011

One of the sick pleasures of returning to where you grew up after many years away, especially if you’re from a small town, is seeing what’s changed. While there’s something oddly reassuring in the town gas station looking exactly at the same as it did five years, still seeing the same cheap beer you can only find in upstate New York, the opposite's true of the things that have been altered. You may have changed and gone through different phases, significant others, haircuts, and music tastes, but you don’t want your town to; the way it looked in 1998 should be the way it looked in 2004 should be [...]

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Steve Carell Returns To The Loving Arms of Papa Bear on The Daily Show

by | July 21st, 2011

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Things got reeeeeeeal sweet and sloppy last night during Steve Carell's visit to The Daily Show. Ostensibly in town to promote Crazy, Stupid, Love, Jon Stewart and his former correspondent spent most of their minutes get misty-eyed over Carell's return to the fold. "I miss you so much," Carell says, later explaining "This is like coming home." As happy  as he is when former co-workers stop by, Stewart [...]

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