Zach Braff, he of Scrubs and Garden State, is your standard leading man. Punk’d alum and Parenthood star Dax Shepard is, well, not. Where the former exudes a straight-laced domesticity, the other specializes in big-hearted slacker types. You’d be forgiven, then, for not realizing they’re the same person.
Frank “Ponch” Poncherello, the undercover FBI agent tasked with investigating corruption in the California Highway Patrol as portrayed by Michael Peña in the new action-comedy CHIPS, is heterosexual. Normally, that isn’t something that would be deemed important enough to note in the opening paragraph of a review. But…
Between 2012’s 21 Jump Street movie and the upcoming Baywatch movie, all the cool kids are rebooting popular television shows from the 1980s and 1990s as feature films. But while 21 Jump Street and Baywatch both brought back original cast members for cameos, but don’t get your hopes up for any in the upcoming CHiPS …
Because one nostalgic, self-aware movie reboot of a classic television property isn’t enough for 2017, here’s the trailer for CHiPs. Dax Shepard wrote and directed this take on the ’70s show, and assumes on the role of Jon Baker, originated by Liz Lemon crush Larry Wilcox. Shepard constructed a modern, explosion-heavy…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie or TV show coming out that week. This week: Inspired by HBO’s High Maintenance, our favorite episodes about pot.
Parenthood star Dax Shepard might be signing on to the creative team for Warner Bros.’ planned Scooby-Doo movie, according to Variety. Shepard—who’s directing the upcoming CHiPs film, and who previously starred in stuff like Punk’d, Idiocracy, and a bunch of adorable pictures with his wife, Kristen Bell—would be…
Though their relationship isn’t always the talk of the tabloids, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have done a good job of pulling back the curtain and letting people see into their private lives every now and again. When Shepard surprised Bell with a sloth for her birthday, the ensuing video made hearts swell, and single…
No stranger to elevating material that sounds dicey at best, Kristen Bell will soon be lending her one-woman charm offensive to another feature-film remake of an old TV show. But whereas normally an actor can just blame the people behind the camera when one of these rehashes turns out more Wild Wild West than 22 Jump…
Adam Brody, whose extensive and varied film and TV career isn’t going to get in the way of us referring to him as “Seth from The O.C.,” has signed on to the cast of the new CHiPS movie, a reboot of the old TV show about motorcycle cops and their struggles against easy capitalization. According to Variety, Brody-Seth…
Call it the curse of Dennis and Mac’s apartment, but, for the second season in a row, a big comic set-piece centered on their shared domicile going up in flames produces a fizzle of a season finale. It’s both puzzling and a shame, as the last two seasons of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia have been remarkably strong…
Parenthood has this weird ability to take something that completely shouldn’t work in theory—and kind of doesn’t work in execution—and make it, somehow, sort of work in the end. The “something” in this case is the abrupt three-month time jump at the beginning of this episode which serves to speed up stories that need…
Just last week, The Skeleton Twins arrived in theaters, illustrating for moviegoers how a strong cast can overcome the limitations of mediocre material. By virtue of distribution karma, along comes This Is Where I Leave You, a similarly sitcomish study of dysfunctional siblings, also featuring TV-trained actors…
From 1977-1983, two very sexy motorcycle cops patrolled California’s highways, having way more fun than seems reasonable, stopping crimes without using their guns, and generally overusing freeze-frames for comic effect. CHiPs starred Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox as Ponch and Jon, the rebel and the blonde, I guess. …
Long before Robert Downey Jr. was a massive box office star and superhero, he was just as attractive and smug as he is now. True to form, Downey plays a bigwig lawyer—“The infamous Hank Palmer. The jaded lawyer with no respect for the law”— in The Judge, a movie he produced with his wife, Susan Downey.
It’s an all-star family reunion in the trailer for This Is Where I Leave You, the upcoming screen adaptation of Jonathan Tropper’s 2009 novel. Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, and Corey Stoll star as siblings who return home to mourn their father. Jane Fonda plays the four siblings’ mother, and the whole gang’s…
People magazine is the latest publication to submit to the outrageous demands of the Kristen Bell-Dax Shepard-Halle Berry Axis Of Evil in a nefarious plot to protect their children from harassment by starving those noble purveyors of truth, the paparazzi.
