Film review: ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES, from Built For Speed

The Ron Burgundy Anchorman films are the contemporary equivalent of the Austen Powers movies; heavily art-directed, retro-themed pop-cultural parodies where a naïve, politically-incorrect but lovable central character manages to triumph despite his overwhelming stupidity. The first Anchorman film was a fun, endearing fitfully amusing satire of 1970’s sexism and the news reading profession that allowed Will Ferrell to gloriously indulge

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Film review: THIS IS 40, from Built For Speed

Judd Apatow’s latest film This is 40 masquerades as a comical insight into the pressures facing a married couple as they hit the big 4.0.  This (kind of) sequel to Knocked Up is really just a grab-bag of politically incorrect jokes and pop culture references rather than a fully-formed story. Like Knocked Up, about a third of the gags are

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