http://www.wikio.co.uk/blog/search/John C. Reilly Wikio Blogs - search: John C. Reilly wikio wikio http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66465830 FirstClassFashionista would like to invite you to shop: DesignerClothes@FirstClassFashionista DesignerShoes@FirstClassFashionista DesignerHandbags@FirstClassFashionista *BOOKMARK THIS SITE* FCF Homepage Stories Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly at the screening of “Step Brothers” at the AMC Loews Lincoln Center in New York City on July 21, 2008. Watch Deleted “Show and Tell” Scene See more Will Ferrell videos at Funny or Die “Step Brothers” is laugh [...] Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:05:19 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66465830 admin 2008-08-02T23:05:19Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66577732 Little piece I did on drummers in the movies, focusing on Rainn Wilson (The Rocker), John C. Reilly (Step Brothers) and Don Coffey, real-life drummer for Superdrag. Funny quotes. "Drummers are idiots," sayeth Rainn. He will rue the day he... Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:29 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66577732 OtownRog 2008-08-03T22:15:29Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65844782 Some guys get all the guests. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:47:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65844782 Jesse Thorn 2008-07-28T23:47:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65778364 Photo: Columbia Pictures, WireImage This past weekend saw the $30 million opening of Step Brothers , the latest fart-addled film product from Judd Apatow's ceaselessly productive, money-printing comedy factory. In it, formerly serious thespian John C. Reilly plays a 40-year-old man-child who meets his idiot match when he becomes accidentally related to Will Ferrell (all customary physical humor, name-calling, and testicle-showing ensue, naturally). While we watched, it occurred to us that John C. Reilly is getting so good at being Will Ferrell, it's easy to forget he was once almost Philip Seymour Hoffman. Remember Magnolia , Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling, Altman-y 1999 film, with the Aimee Mann songs and the frogs? Amid a large ensemble cast were two rising actors on the verge of breakout: Reilly and Hoffman. The pair played the movie's working-class heart and soul — Reilly as a lonely cop, Hoffman as a lonely nurse — quiet sounding boards for other characters broken by lives of privilege and decadence. Anderson, who'd cast them before in Hard Eight and Boogie Nights seemed to recognize they were cut from the same cloth — actors of considerable talent, depth, and pants size, both with invisible technique and an impressive knack for disappearing in a role. Their performances in Magnolia , the movie's two most memorable, made clear they were headed for bigger things. And, for a while at least, it seemed like they were headed for the same thing. In a 2000 Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's True West , Hoffman and Reilly earned Tony nominations by alternating roles nightly as brothers, a straight-laced, college-educated screenwriter and a transient white-trash burglar, who gradually morph into the same person. From there, Hoffman won critical and commercial notice with supporting parts in acclaimed hits like The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain ; Reilly did too, in The Hours and Chicago , for which he scored an Oscar nod. Reviews for Hoffman's performance in 2003's Owning Mahowny tipped him as one of the leading actors of his generation; that same year, Daniel Day-Lewis, Reilly's co-star in Gangs of New York , called him a "terrible man" for "making all the actors around him look like they're acting." These days, though, their work couldn't possibly seem more different. In 2006, Hoffman won an Oscar for his portrayal of Truman Capote and, for reasons still unclear, Reilly fell in with the Apatow fraternity, playing Will Ferrell's NASCAR sidekick in Talladega Nights . Hoffman followed Capote with serious roles in The Savages , Before the Devil Knows You're Dead , and Charlie Wilson's War , which got him another Academy Award nomination. Last year, Reilly countered with a biopic of his own: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story . And while Hoffman's never been a drama snob, exactly (as you may recall, he once pooped his pants in a Ben Stiller movie), at this point in his career, the chances of him making a movie with McLovin seem as unlikely as Reilly's of winning an Oscar. In Step Brothers , it's actually Reilly responsible for most of the Ferrell-esque humor; the best (and dumbest) lines ("Your voice — it's like a combination of Fergie and Jesus!") are his, plus, of the two main stars, he spends the most onscreen time in his underpants, astonishing considering who he's up against. Even more amazing, though, is how quickly and capably he's been able to fill the role of the classic Apatovian lead, a job for which, on paper at least, he seems to have none of the requisite credentials (he was never on Saturday Night Live OR Freaks and Geeks ). So why, then, did he change directions? He turned down Anchorman in 2004 to make The Aviator — did he regret it? Was he sick of earning a character actor's salary? Maybe he just felt like having more fun. Heck, any of these reasons probably would've done it for us . But who's really better off now? Hoffman can take his pick of challenging dramatic roles; Reilly gets to party with Seth Rogen and Sacha Baron Cohen on weekends. Hoffman shoots depressing sex scenes with Marisa Tomei; Reilly does hilarious ones with Jenna Fischer. Hoffman has the respect and adoration of critics and peers; Reilly is almost certainly making more money. Hoffman … actually, he may want to see if McLovin's free after all. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:10 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65778364 2008-07-28T13:30:10Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65917810 Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! runs every Sunday night in 11-minute episodes on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim at 12:30 am. "We have dick jokes and ball jokes and fart jokes and dry comedy and sort of intellectual comedy and 'ooh-ma-ma.' We try to keep things balanced." Tim and Eric, respectively If you're not into fake vomit and mock turtlenecks, here's some good news: There are plenty of comedians for you to like besides Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. The bad news, of course, is that you'll miss out on some of the most absurdly inventive humor to feature on your TV/PC/iPhone lately. The creators of The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! are not yet household names, but given their growing number of die-hard fans, may soon achieve that status – almost certainly if said household is under the age of 40 and favors ball jokes. Heidecker and Wareheim have been busy taping The Awesome Show's 20-episode third season on Adult Swim (which premiered this past Sunday, July 27), releasing a DVD of seasons one and two, producing a weekly real-time Internet talk show for the (now-defunct) online channel Superdeluxe.com, and most recently, staging their live tour, the aptly-named Tim and Eric Awesome Tour, which passed through the Highline Ballroom in late April. I sat down with them to learn their thoughts on random humor, what happens when you search for "Doors horny" on YouTube, and about upcoming projects that may or may not involve Dr. Steve Brule. Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:28:29 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65917810 2008-07-29T14:28:29Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65562687 What would your buddy love more than picking up his desk phone on a Friday afternoon and finding Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly on the line? Head over to stepbrothersduel.com and it about 30 seconds you will have a prank video and phone call all setup for your friend. Type in their name, phone [...] Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:30:43 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65562687 Mitch Martin 2008-07-25T21:30:43Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65248769 In the new comedy Step Brothers, John C. Reilly plays a middle-aged man still living with his parents. John says that he'd be happy to maintain such an arrangement with his own two children with wife Allison Dickey because he "dreads the day when they leave the house." "Maybe there... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65248769 Missy, CBB Writer 2008-07-23T15:00:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65220293 John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell have teamed up for the new comedy Step Brothers, in theaters this Friday. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:56:07 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65220293 Castina 2008-07-23T10:56:07Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65145418 I hope the movie is as funny as the redband trailer. John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell FTW. www.sonypictures.com/movies/stepbrothers www.stepbrothersduel.com http://youtube.com/watch?v=EqaqbkNZZ70 That trailer is awesome...anyone try out the website where you can get John and Will to prank phone... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:47:52 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65145418 Max Mayhem 2008-07-22T19:47:52Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65641472 IPS Step Brothers " is the comedy for you. Crudely and consistently funny, if never quite gut-busting, the movie gets a surprising amount of mileage from the sight of two grown men indulging their inner, … Read the full article here Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:21:54 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65641472 2008-07-26T17:21:54Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65262829 Filed under: Fandom , Movie Marketing , Unscripted , Trailers and Clips It's finally time for Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly to bunk together in Step Brothers , which means it is time for another edition of Moviefone's Unscripted -- questions from the readers and questions off the top of their heads all mixed into one! Above you can check out an exclusive clip, which you won't see in the Moviefone segment, where Ferrell discusses Anchorman 2 . After that, head over to Moviefone and spend a few minutes with the funny men. They chide Moviefone for the title of this series, and then they discuss focusing the hate, little baby ham hands, and one heck of an awesome shot-by-shot remake idea they had. When you hear what it is, remember the movie's shower scene and imagine the possible sexiness. Step Brothers opens this Friday. Permalink | Email this | Comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:11:07 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65262829 Monika Bartyzel 2008-07-23T17:11:07Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65193487 Who's funnier? Who's the better singer? Who's the bigger slacker? 'Step Brothers' stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly answer the tough and sometimes "animosity"-inducing questions in a speed round we'd all like to hear! "Will's obviously funnier," says John, before doing a rock-paper-scissors match with Will to determine the outcome. Who forgets their lines more? "I have a telephotogenic memory," says Will. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:30:20 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65193487 2008-07-23T07:30:20Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65107616 Comedians Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly joined Meredith Viera on The Today Show Tuesday for a chat about their new film Step Brothers, opening this Friday. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:16:26 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65107616 Castina 2008-07-22T14:16:26Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65630589 Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in Step Brothers (dir. Adam McKay, 2008). The greatest American film of the twenty-first century so far? No. Or is it? No, that would be Anchorman , or maybe Talladega Nights . Scoff if you want, but how many directors have three first films (or any films in a row) as intensely, fully realized as Adam McKay's trilogy of the "stuplime," to borrow a term from Sianne Ngai ? (Will Ferrell must receive a lot of the credit, of course, as his ad-libbing is so pervasively constitutive of the flavor of these movies.) There's only one moment in Step Brothers that feels like a misstep (pun noticed at the moment of commission). That's when the writers inexplicably feel it necessary to have Richard Jenkins spell out to us that the two nitwits played by Ferrell and O'Reilly are more interesting and endearing in their state of stunted maturity than when they get their socialized act together and learn how to fill out tax forms. It's not just that it's obvious; it's that it attempts somehow to justify what is appealing precisely because it resists assimilation into justificatory structures. Brendan and Dale are unacceptable . They're complete idiots, noxious to others and hazards to their own well-being. When they manage to pull off "normal" long enough to point the movie towards its inevitable resolution, it's funny because their version of normal is just as stupid as their version of stupid. To have them realize that the squares they become are boring squares is too easy, and reflective, cathartic acceptance on the part of those around them muddies the humor. But this is one imperfection in the midst of a veritable grand ballet of unapologetically farcical comic debasement. Some of the funniest moments belong to Kathryn Hahn, as the frustrated wife of Will Ferrell's brother Derek. Some viewers might object to the way in which her desire is presented a manifestation of the feminine grotesque, but within the overall anthropological erotics of the film's universe, she's just another brave pioneer at the outer boundaries of self-respect and imaginable subjecthood. When she takes charge of a urinal in a restaurant men's room, it's a bracing moment of political idiosyncrasy. Her confidence exceeds practicality, but as we cut to the next scene, we're spared the complications; we're left with merely the optimism of her bravado. Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:36:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65630589 K. Silem Mohammad 2008-07-26T17:36:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65540019 A lot of noise was made prior to the release of Will Ferrell’s Semi-Pro earlier this year. Well, the publicity made an awful lot of noise, but it seemed that audiences didn’t really hear that noise. Similarly, John C. Reilly had his own bout with box office failure (even in ... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:06:30 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65540019 Kevin Carr 2008-07-25T18:06:30Z