Anchorman 2
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Should Independent Films License Products like Hollywood?
While pitching Like Me at the Dogfish Accelerator Demo Day last month, Go Infect Films’ Jessalyn Abbott remarked that a complimentary clothing line would compound its release. I was — immediately and regrettably — skeptical. Of the substantial batch of independent films I seek out each year, not one in recent memory has touted more than a poster and the occasional t-shirt. I filed Go Infect’s marketing strategy away as “unusual” and “ambitious.” A couple days later, when the internet was astir with slack-jawed admiration for Her, I read that Spike Jonze’s longtime “collaborator,” Humberto Leon of Opening Ceremony, had created his […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Jan 7, 2014 -
Anchorman 2: The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (It’s not DiCaprio)
Anchorman 2 is the best movie of 2013. In a year when I often left the theater wondering what the hell the the critics were talking about (All Is Lost, American Hustle, 12 Years A Slave, Nebraska, Inside Llewyn Davis) here is a movie that is fun, deep, irreverent, and political. “Political” is the biggest surprise. Will Ferrell has made a career of not being political and not saying anything. He’s leaned towards the Jay Leno school of comedy a lot more than the Lenny Bruce school. Who else but Will Ferrell would come out with a comedy special on […]
by Noah Buschel on Dec 22, 2013
