memo to Christopher Guest: Please take on Sarah Palin. Please
I’ll help you write it, Mr. Guest. Or I’ll just stand aside in gape in awe as you work. Pretty please?
Fred Willard
For Your Consideration movie review: unpretty comedy
Christopher Guest and his merry band of pranksters are back, improvising a loving, teasing romp through a realm we love and love to hate, full of people fascinating and repellent at the same time.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (review)
I can’t remember a single piece of movie advertising that’s more deceptive, more outrageously, deliberately misleading than the teaser trailer for Anchorman, at least 80 percent of the content of which appears nowhere in the film.
Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman (review)
Put Christopher Guest right on top of the list of They Who Can Do No Wrong. As if the recent DVD release and reappearance in theaters of This Is Spinal Tap weren’t enough for fans of his diverse talent and deadpan humor, he now bestows upon us Best in Show, another of the hilarious and poignant mockumentaries that, in the vein of his 1996 film Waiting for Guffman, poke gentle fun not only at their fictional subjects but at their real-life counterparts and movie audiences as well.
