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Crushable Guessing Game: ’30 Minutes or Less’ or Another Outlandish Comedy?

Crushable Guessing Game: '30 Minutes or Less' or Another Outlandish Comedy?
Glitz and Glamor
Haters Gonna Hate
Car Chase
Get Low
Strong Female Love Interest

In 30 Minutes or Less, criminal Danny McBride orders a pizza, straps a bomb on the delivery guy (Jesse Eisenberg) instead, and informs him he has mere hours to rob a bank before he goes kablooey. An unbelievable comedy with dysfunctional characters and an awkward hero? We’ve seen this so many times before before, often with the same actors (30 Min has another criminal in Nick Swarsdon, and Aziz Ansari as the friend Jesse ropes into this fool’s errand.) Honestly, every other over-the-top comedy is starting to blur together. We’ve picked out a bunch of stills and mapped out the tropes that you’d see in more than one; it’s your job to figure out which movie is which, before the ticking bomb under your shirt counts reaches zero. (See what we did there?) More »

Dude Diary: Ryan Reynolds

Dude Diary: Ryan Reynolds

When you think about Ryan Reynolds, who do you see? A blockbuster comedian who most recently slapped his naked torso against Sandra Bullock‘s in The Proposal? The lucky son of a gun who married Scarlett Johansson after a four year engagement to Alanis Morissette? That guy from Van Wilder you’ve always confused for Dane Cook, even when they were both in Waiting together? Well lucky for you, the answer to “Who is Ryan Reynolds” has seemingly no wrong answer: He’s all of the above, and with the release of the new thriller Buried — filmed entirely inside a coffin in which Ryan’s character has been, well, buried alive — he’s set to make a name for himself that’s more than just a funny A-lister. More »