There are rumors on the internets of a possible Tim & Eric feature film starring John C. Reilly.  I’m not here to tell you whether those are true or not because I don’t know, but what I can do is hold your hand and jump and down because YAY THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME!

Fresh off their Sundance short, The Terrys [trailer after the jump], there’s a rumor circulating on the Tracking Board that Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are putting together a film called Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie. It would star the two comedians, best known for their recently ended Cartoon Network show Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, in a “comedy adventure” about them owing one billion dollars. John C. Reilly, who has not only appeared on the Awesome Show but also spawned his own Tim and Eric spin-off, Check it Out With Dr. Steve Brule, is rumored to co-star as a character named Taquito.

In the tentative words of Derek Zoolander, “…sounds cool.”  John C. Reilly is a God.

Because this comes from the Tracking Board, we’ve qualified this news as a rumor. This list of stars supposedly in talks to appear in the film should also be considered a rumor: Zach Galifianakis, Will Ferrell, Bob Odenkirk, Harrison Ford and Will Forte. Galifianakis, Odenkirk and Forte regularly appeared on the Awesome Show so they make sense. Ferrell would produce with Adam McKay and their Gary Sanchez Productions. I’m not sure how Harrison Ford fits in but, it sounds great. [/film]

Maybe Harrison Ford could play a weird old guy who dances around?  Tim and Eric seem to be big on those.  Anyway, definitely a huge rumor, but still exciting.  It’s hard to explain your excitement for a Tim & Eric project, because their comedy is always 2% concept and 98% getting really stoned in the editing room.  Yes, this is a story about them owing a billion dollars, but at it’s heart it could be 45 psychedelic minutes of an old black man dipping his nuts in a bowl of oatmeal.  And it would probably be awesome.

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I’m reposting the review of Cedar Rapids I originally wrote at Sundance, now that it’s in theaters (at least in these cities). When I wrote it, I worried all the festival spectacle would keep me from being able to write a fair review. But my girlfriend dragged me to it again over the weekend, and if anything, it was better than I remembered. John C. Reilly is a God.

Cedar Rapids: Another Miguel Arteta comedy stupid people won’t get

Before I start my review of Cedar Rapids, I thought, in the interests of diversity, I’d share the review I overheard from the two old guys standing next to me on the bus coming back from the theater.

OLD GUY 1: That black guy was hysterical!  When he was doing those jokes about The Wire?

OLD GUY 2:  The black guy was in The Wire?

OLD GUY 1:  Yeah!  He was like the second biggest cop on The Wire!

OLD GUY 2: Oh yeah, he was great.  And you know Anne Hetch’s character, she reminded me of that Vera Fegamo, when she played the traveling salesman in that one movie?  Aw Christ, what was it called…

(No one says anything.  “…Up in the Air?” I offer.)

OLD GUY 2:  Yeah! Up in the Air!  She reminded me of Vera Fegamo in that.

Long story short, they liked it.

And so did I.  Despite direction by Miguel Arteta, whose last film, Youth In Revolt made my 2010 top 10 list, I didn’t know if I would.  The trailer makes it look like a sort of slapsticky, desperately quirky romp in the vein of Dinner for Schmucks, with Ed Helms playing the Steve Carell role of schmucky rube.  It isn’t that. Quirky, sure, but it takes pains to make the characters real people and not retarded cartoons. Yes, Cedar Rapids is a mainstream comedy.  But it’s a mainstream comedy in the original sense of the description, before “mainstream comedy” meant “pandering drivel for idiots,” when having a sweet message and a character who says “buttf*ck” weren’t mutually exclusive.
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Miguel Arteta’s black list script movie starring Ed Helms and John C. Reilly, Cedar Rapids, has a trailer. Using Senator Clay Davis to make a lame, throwaway reference to The Wire made me sad.

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- Here’s a cockatoo rocking the dub step.  I love dancing birds. |TheDailyWhat|

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- Danny Trejo talks Machete 2, racist humor. |ScreenJunkies|

- Naked body painting with Alex Sim Wise. |G4|

- The 8 stupidest beverages of 2010. |Clutch|

- The 10 best Netflix gems of 2010. Ew, Date Night, really? Dustin’s high again. |Pajiba|

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FOR THE PEOPLE WHO’VE ASKED: Yes, I will be doing a best of 2010 list. But I have a little catching up to do first.

Earlier this week I emerged from the woods and presented you all with the first trailer for Cyrus, starring John C. Reilly, an oval Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei. Well, yesterday I once again returned to the foliage in search of firewood and unconscious spring breakers, only to return with two new movie clips for you…and half of a Butterfinger.
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(“Now repeat, I…will not eat all of the Advent chocolates  on the first day.”)

After the jump, I’ve got the trailer for Cyrus, the latest project from writing/directing, brother duo, Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Baghead). Cyrus centers on the story of a recent divorcee (John C. Reilly) who winds up meeting the perfect woman (Marisa Tomei), only to find out that her grown-ass son (Jonah Hill), who is dependently obsessed with her, multiplies if you feed him after midnight still lives at home with her.
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