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12 December 2011 2:07 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »

Washington, Dec 12: Ben Stiller has pledged to build eight new schools in earthquake-ravaged Haiti with funds raised through his charitable organisation.

The 46-year-old actor has established 'The Stiller Foundation' following the earthquake and has been hosting benefits and auctions to boost donations for his school building mission to help rebuild the country.

The 'Heavyweights' actor has now revealed that he's signed a joint venture with local telecom bosses to construct the new education facilities.

"Great day in Haiti. Signed an agreement with Digicel Foundation to build 8 schools," he tweeted. (Ani) »

- Ketali Mehta

19 October 2011 12:42 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Judd Apatow was defined by the comedy of his generation and he's turned around and used that to define the comedy of the next generation. This is not just a list of things Judd has done in the past, but it's also a chronicling of his rise to power. Here is the life of a comedy nerd made good - made very, very good.

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Born in Flushing, New York, to real estate developer Maury Apatow and Tami Shad, who divorced when he was 12. He also has an older brother Robert and a younger sister Mia. He lived with his dad most of the time and grew up watching shows like Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, etc. "I was watching TV until about 3-3:30 to 1:30 in the morning for years." He spent a lot of time alone in his room, but lest you think that's sad, »

- IFC

13 September 2011 9:16 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Standing up for the little guy, righting wrongs, trying to force our opinions on an unsuspecting public, that’s what we do here at Over/Under. This week we look to champion a kid’s movie, a movie that I contend is not just one of those dumb camp films, but an underpraised king of modern comedy; 1995’s Disney production Heavy Weights. Of course, you know how it works here. In order for one movie to be propped up a peg, another has to take a fall. For those purposes we’ll take a look at 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a beloved adaptation of a beloved Ken Kesey novel that happens to have a few major flaws that often get overlooked. What do they have in common? Both of these movies are about a population of people who are being held captive and asked to give up their rights and freedoms “for their »

- Nathan Adams

9 August 2011 9:34 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Movies can be awesome sources of motivation, whether you're storming the gates of Mordor or walking onto the field in the second half of a pee-wee football game. The great energizing speeches in film make us feel like we could do either and come out on top, and the actors on screen, from Rick Moranis to Kenneth Branagh, know how to makes an audience feel good.

So whether you need to take down the greatest ice hockey team in the world or just feel battered and beaten by repeated printer jams at work, here are our ten favorite movie pep talks, guaranteed to make you get up in the morning and fear no enemy in your path.

Some words of warning, though. Whether they involve wars, sports or rooms filled with Muppets, these scenes may cause excessive fist-pumping.

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25. The success speech, "Heavy Weights" (1995)

Tony Perkins (Ben Stiller) may not win »

- IFC

8 May 2011 10:01 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Paul Feig is nothing if not open. As the author of two wonderfully observed memoirs - "Kick Me," covering his childhood and "Superstud" chronicling his twenties, with his TV series "Freaks and Geeks" to semi-autobiographically fill in the rest of his early years -- he's let audiences grow up with him. With sharp, self-deprecating wit and warmth, he's been the best teller of his own story, one that's led him from an adolescence in Michigan where a respite from constant teasing in junior high was making TV commercials for his father's hardware store before he eventually took center stage himself to the slings and arrows of being a standup comedian and actor. However, partly out of his considerable humility and just as likely because it would ruin some of his schtick, the one area of his life that hasn't been as nearly well-documented has been the success he's found as a director. »

- Stephen Saito

13 January 2011 3:52 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

With Drive Angry 3D on the horizon, we celebrate the cinematic majesty of Nicolas Cage in full flow. And there is a lot to celebrate, too...

I am well aware that the Internet is full to brimming with a variety of Nicolas Cage compilations, with titles such as 'Cage Rage' and ‘Cage losing his shit' becoming part of the web vernacular, but the idea behind this list is to try and reflect the various emotional effects that his films and performances are capable of, not just to list his onscreen outbursts. Though don't get me wrong, there's always room for some of that too.

I've been itching to defend his work for a while now, as the majority of negative comments about him tend to be centred on the misconception that all he does is make ‘bad' movies, without people taking the time to look at his career as a whole. »

6 items from 2011