Kevin Heffernan

Before shooting the independent film “Drinking Buddies” at Revolution Brewing's Kedzie Brewery Thursday, Oscar-nominated actress Anna Kendrick ate lunch at Hot Doug's in the Avondale neighborhood. Specifically, the 26-year-old “Up in the...

When you make a cult favorite comedy like Broken Lizard’s “Super Troopers,” it’s probably inevitable that you’ll get out of a speeding ticket or two. “[Co-star Steve Lemme] was going like 120 miles an hour, and the cop...

** (out of four) Obvious statement of the day: Dumb criminals are funny. Once the ordinary Joes in “The Babymakers” become dumb criminals—in service of robbing a sperm bank—the movie transforms from a low-impact comedy with too...

"The Cabin In The Woods" and "The Babymakers" premiere on the opening night of the 2012 South By Southwest Film Festival...

Good intentions abound in "Preaching to the Choir," a drama in which estranged brothers — one a rising hip-hop star, the other a minister at a declining Harlem church — discover their shared history and values are stronger than anything the...

True or False: Few things in life are funnier than chugging a beer and burping. If you answered "False," you probably don't need to see Broken Lizard's new comedy "Beerfest." If you answered "True," you'll find plenty of reasons to laugh at "Beerfest."...

There's nothing super about "Super Troopers" except for those deep into the low end of the frat-house mentality that equates smart-alecky with hilarity. Since that exception could just prove to be pretty sizable at the box office, it's scary to ponder...