There are dream interviews, and then there are the ones where you pinch yourself afterwards because you can't believe it's real. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is my favorite TV series of all time, and my favorite character on the show is Charlie Kelly. So when the opportunity arose to chat with Charlie Day -- the man behind everyone's favorite illiterate, cat food-eating janitor -- I jumped at the chance.
Day is the new spokesman for Mountain Dew, the sweet citrus soda that will give you more energy than a jug full of Fight Milk. Such a pairing is deserving...
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Day is the new spokesman for Mountain Dew, the sweet citrus soda that will give you more energy than a jug full of Fight Milk. Such a pairing is deserving...
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- 2/17/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
There is no shortage of films that depict the pains of assimilation and the pursuit of the American Dream for a more promising future. It’s been customary for these stories to tell of journeys from another country to a metropolis somewhere across the land of the free. When it comes to the family of Minari, however, they’ve already been living the United States for some time, carving out a life for themselves on the West Coast. Yet Jacob (Steven Yeun) has dreams beyond separating chickens into male and female bins as a cog in industrialized farming and so he moves his Korean-American family to the rural outskirts of Arkansas where he and his wife Monica (Yeri Han) continue the same job, all while attempting to build a more fruitful living with their own farm featuring Korean produce. All the joys and struggles of this journey are captured with a keen,...
- 2/1/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
We’ve already seen The Shining used to shamelessly sell Mountain Dew Zero Sugar with Bryan Cranston, and Bill Murray is coming back for a Groundhog Day follow-up, all for this weekend’s Super Bowl. But as we previously reported, Rick and Morty is also getting in on the Big Game this year as part of a […]
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- 1/29/2020
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
With the cost of a 30-second Super Bowl ad estimated at $5.6 million, it’s obvious why companies continually rely on A-list celebrities to draw interest to their products. And with the sporting event mere days away, we’ve already seen Hyundai enlist Captain America to pitch its latest car. And now, Mountain Dew has entered the fray, with a new ad that not only brings Bryan Cranston into the Super Bowl fold but also lampoons one of the best films of all time— “The Shining.”
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The purpose of the new Mountain Dew Zero Sugar ad is to somehow show that the new version of Dew can be just as good as the original.
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Read More: Chris Evans & John Krasinski Use Their Boston Accents To Explain “Smaht Pahk” In New Super Bowl Ad
The purpose of the new Mountain Dew Zero Sugar ad is to somehow show that the new version of Dew can be just as good as the original.
Continue reading Bryan Cranston Lampoons ‘The Shining’ In Moutain Dew’s Super Bowl Ad at The Playlist.
- 1/28/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Bryan Cranston recreates the “Here’s Johnny!” scene from The Shining in a hilarious new Mountain Dew Super Bowl commercial.
Cranston stars as Jack Torrance from the 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation, wearing the exact green flannel button-down beneath a burgundy jacket. Instead of attempting to murder his wife Wendy while reciting “The Three Little Pigs,” Cranston offers her a sugar-free Mountain Dew. “Same refreshing taste as the original,” he says hauntingly, “without any of the sugar!”
“Here’s Mountain Dew Zero!” he says with his head peeking through the shattered door,...
Cranston stars as Jack Torrance from the 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation, wearing the exact green flannel button-down beneath a burgundy jacket. Instead of attempting to murder his wife Wendy while reciting “The Three Little Pigs,” Cranston offers her a sugar-free Mountain Dew. “Same refreshing taste as the original,” he says hauntingly, “without any of the sugar!”
“Here’s Mountain Dew Zero!” he says with his head peeking through the shattered door,...
- 1/28/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
This is the reality we now face. Ever since Super Bowl commercials have become as big a draw as the game itself, there have always been copious nods to pop culture. Yet, 2020 is proving to continue a stronger, more recent tradition of not just nodding to the thing but recreating it beat-for-beat. The latest proof? A truly discomfiting Mountain Dew ad that finds venerated actor Bryan Cranston aping Jack Nicholson’s iconic rampage through the Overlook Hotel at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.”
It all plays out pretty much how you’d imagine that setup to unfold, right down to Cranston sticking his head through a crack in a door and delivering the product name with a deranged level of faux enthusiasm. Credit Mountain Dew for actually casting someone to play Wendy and not just lazily leaning on Shelley Duvall like so many other parodies have done over the years.
It all plays out pretty much how you’d imagine that setup to unfold, right down to Cranston sticking his head through a crack in a door and delivering the product name with a deranged level of faux enthusiasm. Credit Mountain Dew for actually casting someone to play Wendy and not just lazily leaning on Shelley Duvall like so many other parodies have done over the years.
- 1/28/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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