After stealing the show with his first leading roll in The Hangover, Zach Galifianakis has secured his spot as one of the funniest comedians on the planet. But fans of Galifianakis know the eccentric beardo has been creating some of the craziest, wackiest, most hilarious comedy content for years. Here are our picks for Galifianakis’s Top 20 Most Awesomely Awkward Internet Moments. (more…)

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Here’s the sad truth: Seth Rogen is wearing very thin on us. His laugh, his stoner shtick, even his cleverness — all the things that we love about him, we’re getting tired of. Seth needs to take a year or two off. Do a supporting role here and there, maybe a stint on Broadway, some Shakespeare in the Catskills for a summer… we just don’t want to see him star in anything. For a while. All that having been said, this movie is pretty awesome. Kevin Smith writes and directs, and his dialogue coming out of Rogen’s mouth is at times priceless. Epic, even. The plot is 100% worthless, but that’s not really the point. Kevin Smith is completely on top of his screenwriting game in this one, and as anyone who has followed his work through the years knows, that’s something you don’t want so miss. (more…)

Once a year, everyone in Hollywood trades in their fancy sunglasses and Ugg boots for parkas, gloves and, well, Ugg boots, and heads to Park City, Utah, to attend the Sundance Film Festival. The festival, which kicks off this Thursday, has been one the most prominent launching pads for independent cinema over the past two decades. It functions as both a barometer for what the lineup at every arty movie house in America will look like in the coming year, and also one of the most important see-and-be-seen annual industry schmooze fests. Previous winners and competitors include Clerks, American Splendor, El Mariachi, Hustle & Flow, Juno, Napopleon Dynamite, Saw, Little Miss Sunshine, Garden State… the list goes on an on. (more…)

On October 3rd, indie fans everywhere will be flocking to the new feel-good flick, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, a story about two high school students, impromptu lovebirds caught in one wild night of shenanigans. But just because Nick (Michael Cera – Superbad, Juno) and Norah (Kat Dennings – 40 Year-Old Virgin) get to have an “infinite playlist” doesn’t mean you get to listen to it. All these songs will be on the upcoming soundtrack for the film. Enjoy!

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It makes sense that the coolest movie of last year would also have the coolest soundtrack.

The Juno soundtrack, which hits stores on January 8 (available now on iTunes) is packed full of gorgeously crafted pop songs from Kimya Dawson, The Kinks, Belle & Sebastian and Cat Power just to name a few.

To kick off the album’s release, Rhino has put together this super-clever e-card that allows you to upload your own photo and trick it out Juno style. C’mon, you know you always wondered what you would look like preggers sucking a slurpee.

Just when you thought Knocked Up was the last word on unplanned pregnancy in a comedy, Juno rolls through with a slight modification: teenage pregnancy, a parents’ least-favorite subject.

Starring Arrested Development alumni Jason Bateman and Michael Cera – alas, neither actor appears onscreen together – Juno tells the story of Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), a teenager knocked-up by her schoolmate Paulie Bleeker (Cera, at his awkward best).

After getting the word that she’s preggers, Juno looks to put her child up for adoption via the local newspaper classifieds – enter the baby-wanting couple of Vanessa and Mark Loring (Jennifer Garner and Bateman, respectively).

It looks like a winner, according to early reviews from the Toronto Film Festival.

Juno will be open for limited release on December 14.

Check out the trailer for Juno after the jump.

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First off, if you haven’t seen Superbad yet, do so now. Call in sick from work, skip your Mom’s birthday, break up with your girlfriend – just f*** it all and go. It’s the best comedy of the summer by a country mile, excepting its cinematic big-brother Knocked Up.

Moving on.

Superbad’s super-talented Michael Cera has stepped up to play the role of Nick Twisp in Youth in Revolt, a movie based on the comic-novel by C.D Payne.

Cera, who honed his brilliantly-awkward chops on The Greatest Comedy in Television History is a dead-ringer for Twisp, an intelligent, sex-obsessed 14-year old willing to go great lengths to get inside the panties of his young love (hump) interest, the wanton Sheeni Saunders. Basically, he’s your average teenager – living in the trashy desert-suburbia of NoCal.
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The streak continues for Judd Apatow’s comedy crew. In Superbad, writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have take the signature raunchy wit of The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up and let it lose on the high school sex comedy genre. While the “nerdy guys trying to get laidâ€? formula may seem well worn at this point, Jonah Hill and Michael Cera rip through line after line with awkward comic genius. From debating the best porn site to subscribe to so their parents don’t notice it on the bill to the merits of a breast reduction, this brilliant comic duo speaks with such conviction they might as well be debating politics. It has to be said that Michael Cera, who some may know as “George Michaelâ€? from the comic masterpiece Arrested Development, is the Marlon Brandow of the awkward teenager. (more…)