A few days ago on CNN, someone apparently thought it’d be a funny idea to air the clip of Jeff Daniels having explosive diarrhea from Dumb and Dumber with pretty much no context.  Go ahead, watch the clip.  One second the guy’s talking about riots in England and the latest news from congress, the next Jeff Daniels is performing the most important scene of his career.

People have suggested theories as to how CNN “mistakenly” aired the diarrhea footage, but I’m pretty sure you don’t just have your b-roll from congress sitting around next to your clips of Jeff Daniels taking a dump and Jason Biggs having sex with a pie.  The clip may have had something to do with an upcoming medical segment on the show about a guy with ulcerative colitis.  From CNN via Medialite:

Diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, nothing helped except high doses of steroids, which because of severe side effects, he could take only for limited periods of time. Soon, the patient became so sick he had to quit his job.
His gastroenterologist wanted to admit him to the hospital for an intravenous round of cyclosporine, a potentially helpful yet dangerous medicine that depresses the body’s immune system and can increase the risk for getting cancer later in life.

The story actually contains the subtitle: “Ten to 15 bloody bowel movements a day.”  Why they thought to illustrate this with a clip from Dumb and Dumber, I’m still not sure.  Maybe the anchor played it right before the interview and was like, “Haha, get it?  That’s you.” Total CNN move.

He’s Deadpool, he’s Green Lantern, hell, even in indie movies Ryan Reynolds gets to play a superhero.  This one’s called Paper Man, from writer/directors Michele and Kieran Mulroney, and this time, Reynolds plays a bleach blond, Drop Dead Fred version of Superman, who exists only in the mind of Jeff Daniels, a struggling, middle-aged novelist who moves to Long Island for the winter to cure his writer’s block and who, get this, “has never quite grown up.”  An imaginative, immature writer as an indie flick protagonist?  You guys are nuts, it’ll never work!  But before you can say “Baumbach”, the acoustic guitars fade in and Daniels strikes up an unconventional relationship with Emma Stone, who’s, get this, wise beyond her years but emotionally wounded.  You take it from here, official synopsis:

Their tenuous, new friendship is sparked by Richard’s awe over Abby’s homemade soup and Abby’s enjoyment of Richard’s writing and his attempts at Origami. As the season progresses and the warm, quirky friendship between Richard and Abby grows, the two begin to share with each other their dreams and life hardships.  With the coming of spring, Richard and Abby discover there comes a time to let go of the imaginary friends of the past and to embrace the future as a new beginning.

Hmm, I like this as a movie, but does it perhaps also come as a scarf?

Opens in limited release April 23rd.

Sorry for these lightning-round posts folks, but I think you’ll agree that none of these deserve a whole post for themselves. What do they look like, your mom?

Dead Snow, the Norwegian Nazi-Zombie movie has a new trailer.  It’s out in limited release on June 19th.  This trailer gives you a better idea of the story, which isn’t really a good thing, since the entire story consists of “There are zombies and the zombies are nazis.”  The blood-puking clip is far more effective, I think.  But I say that about everything.

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