Tag: Vice Principals
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Danny McBride’s Comedy ‘Arizona’ Bought for Summer Release
Rlje Films has acquired all North American rights to the Danny McBride-Rosemarie DeWitt dark comedy “Arizona,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, for a summer theatrical release.“Arizona” is the directorial debut of Jonathan Watson (HBO’s “Vice Principals”), who directed from a script by Luke Del Tredici. Besides McBride and DeWitt, the film stars…
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‘The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter’: Jody Hill & Danny McBride’s “Poor Man’s ‘Revenant’” – SXSW
Jody Hill and Danny McBride’s creative fusion has a brazenly hysterical, yet sincere way of showing the underbelly of men; guys who aspire to greatness, but through their flaws fall short as divorced fathers or misfits, from the Sundance hit that made them, The Foot Fist Way to their latest HBO comedy series Vice Principals.…
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‘The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter’ Review: Josh Brolin is Hilarious in Forgettable Netflix Comedy — SXSW 2018
In two television series (“Eastbound & Down” and “Vice Principals”) and two feature films (“The Foot Fist Way” and “Observe and Report”), writer/director Jody Hill and writer/star Danny McBride have created a devastatingly funny and increasingly relevant commentary on the curse of toxic masculinity. The Hill/McBride “hero” is, in most cases, a retrograde blowhard, dumb…
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SXSW Film Review: ‘The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter’
Although “The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter” comes to us from director Jody Hill and actor/co-writer Danny McBride, the masterminds behind the exuberantly surly HBO sitcoms “Eastbound and Down” and “Vice Principals,” far too much of this wildly uneven Netflix-bound comedy (scheduled to launch July 6) plays less like a transgressive farce than an…