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29 May 2008 2:04 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

There's nothing particularly subtle about the humor in Waiting For Guffman, Christopher Guest's mockumentary about a community theater group's attempts to celebrate its Missouri town's sesquicentennial, but there's nothing particularly mean about it either. Guest invites viewers to laugh at the film's parade of provincial eccentrics, but the invitation stops well short of cruelty. But not every small-town comedy knows better than to cross that line. Like an insult comic inviting the audience to applaud at a victim for being a good sport, Napoleon Dynamite gave its hero three minutes of redemption after 90 minutes of humiliation. At least it had those three minutes; the Napoleon-esque The Foot Fist Way is considerably less generous. Star/co-writer Danny McBride (best known for his part in All The Real Girls, but soon to be better known for The Pineapple Express) plays a pudgy tae kwon do instructor who defines himself by...

Keith Phipps

29 May 2008 9:42 AM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

As a rule, we tend to decline invitations to junkets or junket-like events here at The A.V. Club, because the lure of trips and snack tables is so likely to cloud our judgment about a film. But when the chance to speak with Will Ferrell and his producing/writing partner Adam McKay came up, we couldn’t resist the urge to send someone—new L.A. city editor Chris Martins—into on-camera battle. The occasion: the release of The Foot Fist Way, a scrappy indie comedy written by newcomers Danny McBride and Ben Best (who also star) and Jody Hill (who also directs). Ferrell and McKay liked the movie—about a low-rent tae kwon do instructor—so much that it became the first release for their new company, Gary Sanchez Productions. In the first two videos, Ferrell and McKay talk about happening upon the film, and in the third,

Josh Modell

26 May 2008 4:41 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

There's something for everyone this week at the multiplex, what with Carrie and company offering something for the ladies with "Sex and the City," the Tae Kwon Do comedy "The Foot Fist Way" being an alternative for the guys, and "Savage Grace"... well, again, let's just say there's something for everyone.

"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*"

With everyone from Little League coaches to members of the U.S. Congress weighing in on the issue of performance enhancing drugs in sports, body builder (and former user) Christopher Bell injects his own story into this documentary that explores America's obsession with excellence and what it realistically takes to achieve it. Bell chronicles his own family's history of steroid use as a jumping off point to explore the wider love/hate relationship between professional athletes and performance enhancing drugs in a culture where winning is everything and there are no points for second place.

Neil Pedley

3 articles from 2008