Will Ferrell

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Don't sweat your major — you'll probably change your mind anyway

Throwing it all away
Chances are that two of you have no friggin' idea what you want to do with your lives, and the one of you who does will change his or her mind by age 25.
By ASHLEY RIGAZIO | August 31, 2011

Review: Everything Must Go

A showcase of Ferrell's acting potential
Gordon Lish, Raymond Carver's editor, ruthlessly cut down the late short-story writer's prose, helping him perfect his trademark spare style.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 12, 2011

Review: Megamind

Let’s hear it for celebrity voices and an excess of licensed pop music!
Did you like Universal's Despicable Me and its computer-animated 3D tale of a misunderstood criminal mastermind? Well, then, you're in luck.
By BRETT MICHEL | November 03, 2010

Review: The Other Guys

Will Ferrell returns to form
By far the funnier of the summer's two comedies featuring an accountant ( Dinner for Schmucks being the other).
By PETER KEOUGH | August 08, 2010

Review: The Cartel

... flunks
First-time documentarian and TV journalist Bob Bowdon’s broad primer on what’s rotting American education runs like a 90-minute 20/20 segment.
By ALICIA POTTER | April 28, 2010

Interview: Robert Siegel

On the shoulders of Giants fans
As Robert Siegel explores the idea of what happens when reality curb-stomps overblown expectation, it's hard not to feel a visceral twinge of empathy.
By SHAULA CLARK | September 25, 2009

The Funn(k)y Drummer

What's the connection between comedy and percussion?
Johnny Carson was revered for his impeccable comic timing. It was "so precise," wrote one newspaper in his obituary, "that we wouldn't be surprised to find buried in his skull a quartz crystal." And why might that be? Perhaps because Johnny Carson was a drummer. In drumming, after all, timing is everything.
By MIKE MILIARD | August 13, 2009

Interview: Judd Apatow

On the making of his Citizen Kane
Behind every successful comedian, there's . . . a personal assistant. Who, given how egomaniacal and utterly misanthropic the funnyman in question is, is probably his best friend, too.
By LANCE GOULD | July 29, 2009

Review: Land of the Lost

Will Ferrell bottoms out
Even Matt Lauer deserves a better fate than to watch his career die at the hands of Brad Silbering.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 03, 2009

Review: Observe and Report

Seth Rogen calls security
Jody Hill's ambiguous and unsettling film is a comedy about law enforcement in much the same way that Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy is a comedy about comedy.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 08, 2009

Putting up W’s

Screen depictions beat around the Bush
How is it that the least popular and possibly worst chief executive in American history has inspired no lasting impersonations?
By PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2008

What a break

McCain struts his stuff as Russia attacks Georgia
A shout out of big-time thanks from the John McCain campaign to our friends in Georgia that are being mercilessly bombed by the Russian military after provoking Big Bad Vlad Putin!
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | August 13, 2008

Krofft fare

Sid and Marty show MySpace how psychedelia’s really done
My favorite Sid and Marty Krofft production is one they had nothing to do with.
By MIKE MILIARD | July 23, 2008

Step Brothers

Farting sets the standard of good taste
Step Brothers should answer any doubts as to whether Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are cinema’s reigning lovable losers.
By TOM MEEK | July 23, 2008

Please shut up!

Our salute to a few of the most obnoxious people of the week
How can we miss you if you won’t go away?
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | July 16, 2008

Semi-pro

A grand idea
This Will Ferrell send-up attempts to do for bush-league basketball what Bull Durham did for baseball and Slap Shot for hockey.
By TOM MEEK | February 27, 2008

Redstone’s red-carpet revelry

Comm Ave Walk of Fame
Boston University is rolling out the red carpet again . . . literally.
By NEELY STEINBERG | February 06, 2008

Crossword: ''The worst of 2007''

Let us look back, and feel shame.
Let us look back, and feel shame.
By MATT JONES | January 09, 2008

Hot Rod

Barely worth an illegal download
Andy Samberg and his SNL Digital Shorts cohort stepped in to recapture some of that “Lazy Sunday” magic.
By BRETT MICHEL | August 01, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 10-1

These guys couldn't turn on a radio
These guys couldn't turn on a radio
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The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 100-91

These guys couldn't turn on a radio
These guys couldn't turn on a radio
By PHOENIX STAFF | April 13, 2007

Worst in breed: Movies

The Unsexiest men 2007
Who are the unsexiest movies men of 2007?
By PHOENIX STAFF | April 12, 2007

Blades of Glory

Will Ferrell's glory days are over
Will Ferrell plays a redneck star athlete who’s dumb and adored and loses his trousers a lot and meets his match in an effete competitor.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 29, 2007

Spring loaded

Working out the kinks
It’s spring, and Hollywood has to get the kinks out of its system before it can focus on the business at hand: the sequels of summer.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 12, 2007

Bodies: Christopher Clark

By TAMARA WIEDER | January 16, 2007

Fractured fairy tales

Fantasy and reality compete for the box office in 2007
Times are tough when the Dream Factory has a better grip on what’s going on than the people in Washington.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 28, 2006

Thursday night live

Fey and Baldwin Rock the house
Tina Fey, ex-head writer of Saturday Night Live , has created a sitcom that takes viewers behind-the-scenes of a SNL -style sketch comedy show. And turns out her show is funnier than the real thing.
By RYAN STEWART | December 05, 2006

Stranger than Fiction

Submits to the temptations of clichés and bathos
What’s stranger than fiction? Some might say meta-fiction, the “avant-garde” genre that’s actually older than Don Quixote, in which a work of fiction self-consciously refers to its own artifice. Watch the trailer for Stranger than Fiction (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | November 10, 2006

Fall back

This season, Hollywood lives in the past
If you cannot remember the past, so Santayana said, you’re condemned to repeat it. Watch trailers for this fall's new releases.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 13, 2006

Blue movie?

Talladega Nights will have some seeing red
Despite what the people behind Talladega Nights might tell you, the film makes its target audience — NASCAR fans, rednecks, Red Staters of various descriptions — look like a bunch of idiots. Watch the trailer for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (QuickTime) Ferrell behavior: The star of Talladega Nights drives a hard bargain. By Peter Keough
By PETER KEOUGH | August 04, 2006