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Ryan Reynolds, Man of Many Faces (That I'd Pay to Lick)

2 June 2009 12:08 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news

"I'm sorry, asphinctersayswhat?"

(All pics: Getty)

Last night everyone's favorite bulging, furry-teeted Canadian boy next door, Ryan Reynolds, premiered his new romantic comedy The Proposal with Sandra Bullock, and of course found it impossible to not contort his adorable mug into all sorts of funny expressions for the cameras.

Allow us to give you a guided tour through his many looks...

"Why you scoundrel. You're fresh as wet paint!"

"Ruh-roh ... Raggy?!"

More below...

"Trust me. I know what I'm doing."

"No, the Other blow-up doll"

"Hell, the check already cleared. What do I care?"

"I'd smile bigger but you're standing on my *@&!"

"Is that creepy guy back there still looking at me? K."

All this and more at Jc Penny's One Day Sale!

The Ghost of Ryan Reynolds Yet to Come ... oh sorry that's Kevin Farley.

brian

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The Five Rules For Making a Modern Spoof Film

22 May 2009 4:20 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

"Dance Flick," from a group perhaps best described as the Wayans Brothers: The Next Generation (Keenen Ivory's nephew Damien Dante produced and directed the film, which stars his cousin Damon Jr.) opens today, the fifth parody movie (or spoof) since the start of last year. This astonishing burst of productivity has coalesced around a new set of rules for making spoof films that places them in stark contrast to watershed predecessors like "Young Frankenstein" or "Airplane!"

Here are five reliable new school spoofing guidelines. There's a 50/50 chance these will work for "Dance Flick" too, though there's only a ten percent chance of that.

1. You can never have too many references.

It's not that the spoofs of yesteryear didn't reference other movies -- they did. But they were traditionally woven into the film by way of flashbacks or dream sequences - think of the "Battleship Potemkin"/"Untouchables" opening to "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.

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Matt Singer

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Commentary Tracks Of The Damned: An American Carol

8 January 2009 9:01 PM, PST | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Crimes: • Tackling the fatuousness—and the fat—of Michael Moore via the fictional "Michael Malone," a documentary filmmaker whose attempts to ban Independence Day are thwarted after three patriotic ghosts visit him • Vacillating over whether Malone is merely a trumped-up celebrity created by the liberal media, or a dangerous demagogue with legions of blinkered followers • Advancing a broad, insulting analogy between people who question the Bush administration's tactics in the war on terror, and people who would've appeased the Nazis, or prevented Lincoln from freeing the slaves • Mocking liberal professors and venal Hollywood types with the subtlety and fine detail of a Mallard Fillmore cartoon Defender: Director/co-writer/co-producer David Zucker, co-writer/co-producer Lewis Friedman, and star Kevin Farley Tone of commentary: Gap-filled and sheepish. Early on, there are several long pauses followed...

Noel Murray

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2009 | 2008

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