To preface: I am a dyed-in-the-wool (sweater) hockey fan. A true puckhead, who knows his Staals from his Stolls and his Lubomir Visnovskys from his Vitaly Vishnevskiys. So watching the first look at ...
One of my favorite Rodney Dangerfield one-liners is “I went to a fight last night, and a hockey game broke out,” mainly because of the absurd mental image it evokes. The new comedy “Goon” is all about ...
The fact that a movie as harsh and despicable as "Goon" can be promoted as a comedy says terrible things about the state of the American film industry. There's a workable concept here: A meek but ...
Ottawa-born, Montreal-raised actor Jay Baruchel makes his feature directorial debut and tackles a subject near and dear to his heart — hockey, Canada’s national sport — in the comedy sequel “Goon: ...
I've already gone on record with my initial thoughts regarding the upcoming hockey comedy "Goon" (summation: Outdated view of the game, Liev Schreiber is cool), so there's no need to get back into it.
Toronto, ONTARIO (September 13, 2011) – The Cuban/Wagner Company’s Magnet Releasing, genre arm to Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have taken US rights to Michael Dowse’s raucous hockey ...
Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Fans of the hockey comedy Goon, take heart. A ...
Writers Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg have added the great Liev Schreiber to the cast of their semi-pro hockey comedy about a rag-tag band of underdogs that rely on thuggery to overcome their ...
That old line “I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out,” informs “Goon: Last of the Enforcers,” a raunchy, ploddingly unfunny comedy sequel to 2012’s equally crass but ...
This is a big year for Jay Baruchel who has no less than three studio movies seeing release this year. Both She's Out of My League and How to Train Your Dragon will be hitting theaters later this ...
The last hockey comedy to grace U.S. multiplexes was … "The Love Guru." They're still using high-concentrated bleach to get the stench out of certain theaters. Ah, but the future is bright for puck ...