Adam McKay

Concrete barriers were erected at a dead-end street on the Chicago River today, two days after a car containing the body of a missing model was pulled from the water there. City crews placed the barriers across Blackhawk Street, just west of North Branch...

From the Mike Sragow Gets Reel blog: Jason Winer directed every other episode of the first season of the award-winning ABC comedy "Modern Family." He has just made the jump to movie comedy with the forthcoming remake of "Arthur," starring Russell Brand...

Wednesday 7/20     Grebe's garden is filling up - with weeds.  It's been way too hot to get out there and carefully pluck and pull.     On the other hand, the tomatoes are growing and there is plenty of green fruit on the vine.  Now on to the...

There's a pig. And it's wearing a Donald Trump wig. It's a hectic Wednesday afternoon at the Hollywood offices of the comedy website-turned-digital entertainment studio Funny or Die. The company just celebrated its fourth birthday, and there's a national...

In case seeing "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" five or six times in theaters this summer wasn't enough, Twi-hards will get the chance to sink their teeth into the film all over again this weekend, when Summit Entertainment will re-release it to push the...

Funny or Die mocks the news: 10 classic videos...

The new film from the fellows who created the mockumentary “The Virginity Hit” will be titled “Wheels,” and it'll have the heavyweight backing of Will Ferrell and his house director and comic foil, Adam McKay. Seeing as how “...

While “Hot Tub Time Machine� and “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World� jockey for position as my Funniest Comedy of the Year, this Will Ferrell vehicle is pretty securely in third place. The setup is very much like the Bruce Willis/Tracy Mo...

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg make an enjoyable odd-couple team in this action-comedy about a couple of New York police detectives who usually don't get the big cases. That changes when the preferred duo ( Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson) is taken...

The Early Show Craig Ferguson; Marcus Samuelsson. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today The parents of Kyron Horman; Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA Good Morning America Newt Gingrich. (N) 7......

The pitch must have been, “It's 48 Hrs with Will Ferrell instead of  Eddie Murphy!” The Other Guys is a Ponzi scheme of a comedy, a buddy action picture cluttered with funny characters and hilarious moments. It's got Ferrell riffing in full...

I'm always intrigued to visit the various review aggregate sites on Wed. or Thursday after I've filed my reviews to see if everybody or anybody at all within the reviewing universe reacted to the weekend's offerings the same way I did. Never more than...