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Likable Rudd's Latest Box Office Bomb and Fey's Worst Star Opening

24 March 2013 2:25 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Admission movie: Domestic Box office bomb Paul Rudd hasn't been at all lucky at the Us/Canada box office. His latest star vehicle, the Paul Weitz-directed (About a Boy, In Good Company) comedy Admission, co-starring 30 Rock's Tina Fey, is his most recent box-office flop, following the costly James L. Brooks / Reese Witherspoon comedy How Do You Know ($30.21m), Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother ($24.81m domestic), and David Wain / Jennifer Aniston's Wanderlust ($17.45m), plus Judd Apatow's commercial disappointment This Is 40 ($67.54m). (Pictured above: The likable Paul Rudd in the un-liked Admission.) Weitz's film pulled in an estimated $6.44 million at 2,160 Us and Canada sites this weekend (March 22 - 24), as per studio figures found on the web site Box Office Mojo. That's represents Rudd's second worst wide-release debut ever (movie screening at more than 1,000 venues), trailing only another comedy, Jeff Lowell's Over Her Dead Body, starring / Lake Bell and Eva Longoria, »

- Zac Gille

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Hannah Deals With Ocd and Marnie Just Wants to Sing on 'Girls'

4 March 2013 8:28 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

The article below contains spoilers for "It's Back," the March 3rd, 2013 episode of "Girls." Season two of "Girls" has been markedly uneven -- the swings in quality and the recently trilogy of episodes centered around characters traveling outside the show's normal universe (to Staten Island, to a hot doctor's brownstone, to upstate New York) suggest a series struggling to figure out what direction to take. Last night's installment, "It's Back," directed by the reliable Jesse Peretz and written by Lena Dunham, Steve Rubinshteyn and Deborah Schoeneman, settled into more familiar territory while coming across as similarly scattershot in terms of the storylines it encompassed. The title could easily be referring to the return of "Girls" to the day-to-day of its characters, though it more directly cites Hannah's (Dunham) obsessive-compulsive disorder flare-up. I can't remember if Hannah's mentioned a history with Ocd before (it seems like the kind of thing she'd toss off in the. »

- Alison Willmore

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Hannah Deals With Ocd and Marnie Just Wants to Sing on 'Girls'

4 March 2013 8:28 AM, PST | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »

The article below contains spoilers for "It's Back," the March 3rd, 2013 episode of "Girls." Season two of "Girls" has been markedly uneven -- the swings in quality and the recently trilogy of episodes centered around characters traveling outside the show's normal universe (to Staten Island, to a hot doctor's brownstone, to upstate New York) suggest a series struggling to figure out what direction to take. Last night's installment, "It's Back," directed by the reliable Jesse Peretz and written by Lena Dunham, Steve Rubinshteyn and Deborah Schoeneman, settled into more familiar territory while coming across as similarly scattershot in terms of the storylines it encompassed. The title could easily be referring to the return of "Girls" to the day-to-day of its characters, though it more directly cites Hannah's (Dunham) obsessive-compulsive disorder flare-up. I can't remember if Hannah's mentioned a history with Ocd before (it seems like the kind of thing she'd toss off in the. »

- Alison Willmore

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Girls, Ep. 2.04: “It’s a Shame about Ray” – Wisdom and the Dinner Table

3 February 2013 2:14 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Girls, Season 2, Episode 3: “It’s a Shame about Ray”

Written by Lena Dunham

Directed by Jesse Peretz

Original Air Date: February 2, 2013

In Luis Bunuel’s 1962 film, The Exterminating Angel, some high society types have a party and inexplicably find they are incapable of leaving. As the days and weeks pass, their values, behavior and humanity degrades, until they are hardly better than the beast. Forty years later, the film still resonates as society becomes more enclosed by invisible conventions and structures. In this week’s Girls there is an unconscious evocation of this feeling, as the characters desperately cling to life and search for meaning in a world that is pre-destined to disappoint and repress them. Though Jessa has been relegated to a side character for the season so far, she is brought to the forefront as being especially representative of this struggle.

There is a sense going into »

- Justine

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Girls, Ep. 2.03: “Bad Friend” wedges our heroines even further apart

28 January 2013 11:58 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Girls, Season 2, Episode 3: “Bad Friend”

Written by Lena Dunham and Sarah Heyward

Directed by Jesse Peretz

Airs Sundays at 9pm Et on HBO

Filling in for Justine Smith, who shall return post-haste.  

“What does cocaine make you feel like? It makes you feel like having more cocaine.” – George Carlin

Coke is the ideal drug of Girls. When Hannah excitedly enters a pretentious internet publication’s spartan offices after hearing they’ll pay for contributions, she takes with her an eagerness to write about any and all new experiences. (Well, except maybe having a threesome.) So when she’s asked to write about doing cocaine, she sees it as yet another opportunity to transgress and excavate. Why not?

One of Girls’s most persistent themes is that of the avoidance, or utter denial, of consequence. For Hannah, coke is just an unexplored country, as well as a potential launchpad for thousands of (paid! »

- Simon Howell

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