Caryn James

Watch A Trailer For Mindy Kaling's New Series

Caryn James — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:13:59 GMT

The Mindy Project may already be my favorite fall series, and I’ve only seen three minutes, but I totally trust Mindy Kaling as a writer and actor. Who else would ask for a guy with the...

Watch Clips From J.J.Abrams and Other NBC Fall Shows. What Looks Best?

Caryn James — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:48:43 GMT

J.J.Abrams and Giancarlo Esposito go post-Apocalyptic, Jesse Spencer post-House fights fires in Chicago, and Matthew Perry tries again as a widowed sportscaster, in NBC’s fall series This week...

Will Ferrell And Jason Sudeikis Give Us the Secret George W. and Biden

Caryn James — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:49:50 GMT

It would take a lot more than a Will Ferrell impression to make me want George W. Bush to return for real, but Ferrell’s always hilarious fake-Bush was the highlight of last night’s SNL....

Will Ferrell Visits Jimmy Fallon: Wears Tight Pants, Shows New Movie Trailer

Caryn James — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:13:38 GMT

Will Ferrell’s comedy is both incomparably goofy and totally droll about it, and both sides of his humor kicked in during his guest spot on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He was promoting his...

The Vampire Who Came To Dinner: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Do Dark Shadows

Caryn James — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:30:00 GMT

I’m a big fan of Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and vampires in general, so Dark Shadows is a film with my name on it. But you don’t need that perfect storm of tastes to fall for this...

Sherlock Meets Bieber And Fifty Shades of Grey

Caryn James — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:45:01 GMT

Downton Abbey is not the only buzz-worthy upscale/downscale gem from PBS’s Masterpiece this year. Season 2 of Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the 21st century version of Arthur Conan...

Edgy Obama Opens For Kimmel at White House Correspondents Dinner (Video)

Caryn James — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:41:49 GMT

We always knew it would be impossible to top last year’s hilarious and secretly dramatic White House Correspondents Dinner, when President Obama slammed Donald Trump – and secretly knew...

Jon Hamm, Paul McCartney Guest On Hilarious, Live 30 Rock (UPDATED WITH VIDEO)

Caryn James — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:47:53 GMT

When recorded series go live, it’s usually hard to overcome the stuntiness of it all. (Alec Baldwin promised in a promo that the live 30 Rock would be “liver” than ever, so we all...

Obama With Fallon: The Prez Slow Jams The News

Caryn James — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:06:32 GMT

President Obama had a clear political agenda in visiting Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, on the road at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: reaching out to young voters and more...

Tribeca Highlight: Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal In the Witty "Hysteria"

Caryn James — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:34:23 GMT

Well, how DID Victorian ladies get along without vibrators? That’s probably not a question that has been hovering in your mind, but you’ll get the answer anyway in Hysteria, director...

Tribeca Highlight: Emily Blunt In Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister

Caryn James — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:32:35 GMT

It’s a small relationship film with a big bold impact: witty, nuanced, beautifully acted, Your Sister’s Sister is one of the best movies so far at the Tribeca Film Festival. As...

Where Even The Spoons Are Political: "Veep" and "Scandal" Do D.C. For TV

Caryn James — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:51:05 GMT

“We live in a culture now where it’s almost like we are used to being lied to,” Julia Louis-Dreyfuss said in a recent New York Times Magazine piece about her HBO series Veep –...

Steven Spielberg's Latest: Laser Cats 7 (SNL Video)

Caryn James — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:34:37 GMT

Steven Spielberg played himself in an SNL Digital Short last night, as the ostensible director of the latest installment of Laser Cats -- the low-tech, sci-fi series with Andy Samberg and Bill...

The Secrets of Monsieur Lazhar

Caryn James — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:02:02 GMT

Monsieur Lazhar may have lost the Best Foreign Language Oscar to A Separation – I can’t argue with that; A Separation is extraordinary – but if any film could have given it a real...

Jimmy Fallon And Friends Go to Downton Abbey (Video)

Caryn James — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Just when you’ve gotten through Downton Abbey withdrawal, here’s another parody to remind you of what’s missing from television: Jimmy Fallon and friends from Studio 6B give us...

Jon Stewart on Easter Vs. Passover (Video)

Caryn James — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:03:33 GMT

It’s not called the Judeo-Christian tradition for nothing, but in the spring holiday face-off the two sides of that equation are not equally fun. Jon Stewart calls on his own team, the Jewish...

Can Tap Dancing Save Your Life? Whit Stillman On The Retro-Utopia of Damsels in Distress

Caryn James — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:00:02 GMT

Once glance at Damsels in Distress reminds you that Whit Stillman is a true original. This delicious, sharp, sometimes daffy film give us a benign coven of flower-named college students - Violet,...

Sofia Vergara Promos SNL With (Really!) Jokes About Her Accent

Caryn James — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:15:30 GMT

Sofia Vergara breaks away from Modern Family to host SNL this Saturday. She’s game and funny, but if the show doesn't go beyond easy, obvious accent-jokes there’ll be a lot of...

"The Killing" Returns: Can You Forgive It?

Caryn James — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:00:01 GMT

If you’re going to watch season 2 of The Killing – and based on tonight’s premiere I recommend you should - you just have to say “All is forgiven” about the season 1...

Stay Classy, Anchorman: Watch Will Ferrell Announce The Sequel On Conan

Caryn James — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:12:07 GMT

Ron Burgundy – aka Will Ferrell - stopped by Conan O’Brien’s show last night to officially announce that Anchorman 2 has a greenlight. The sequel to 2004’s Anchorman: The...

It's Good To Be Shameless

Caryn James — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:00:00 GMT

There is a hilarious, clever new expletive in the Leslye Headland’s Sundance film Bachelorette: “Jesus H. Macy!” I don’t think she meant it this way, but there is truly...

Jennifer Lawrence Outwits Outlasts Outplays in The Hunger Games

Caryn James — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:49:00 GMT

The massive audience for The Hunger Games is easily split into two camps. There are fans of the books, who are likely to approve of the terrific Jennifer Lawrence while picking out all the details...

Watch Jon Hamm, All Wet With Jimmy Fallon For Mad Men Return

Caryn James — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:15:40 GMT

There has been an avalanche of hype and a little hand-wringing about the season premiere of Mad Men on Sunday. (Brief review: it’s good and answers some cliff-hanging questions in a flash.) But...

Will Ferrell Sings, Rides, Says Hola In Casa de Mi Padre

Caryn James — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:26:01 GMT

Over time I’ve come to recognize my reaction to Will Ferrell comedies – they’re funny on first viewing, though not relentlessly laugh-til-you-cry hilarious. But on second or third...

Will Ferrell Visits Jimmy Kimmel, En (Broken) Espagnol

Caryn James — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:24:05 GMT

Whatever Casa de Mi Padre turns out to be – and it looks promising – Will Ferrell hasn’t fallen into the trap of promoting it with the same familiar answers on every talk show...