The cinema is awash with comic-book superheroes - but none of them is truly heroic. Heroes, in our egalitarian age, no longer embody the dream of the superior individual who is greater than humanity; nowadays, superheroes must be as flawed and screwed up as we are.

The Daily Star from his hometown of Montreal, Canada, Hage said.

Rob Cohen knows how to walk away from a franchise. The director behind such high-octane hits as XXX and The Fast and the Furious wasn’t involved in what he calls the ”lackluster sequels” to his movies that studios churned out without him.

TORONTO - Grunt work has always been a mainstay of sketch comedy. Gather some friends, brainstorm a gag, rehearse over pizza (or other chortle boosters), plaster the neighbourhood with flyers announcing a live show, then let the hilarity ensue.

If people noticed Olivier Nguyen in the street, many would have seen him as just another lost soul asking for the help of strangers.

SEPT. 18-27 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN San Sebastián International Film Festival: You’ll need to remind yourself that you should be inside watching the latest films from international directors Javier Fesser, Michael Winterbottom, Belén Macias, and Samira Makhmalbaf instead of wandering the beautiful Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián during the region’s annual film festival. In addition …

Seth Rogen does many of his own stunts in the pot-action comedy Pineapple Express. But there’s one that always elicits an impressed gasp from the audience, regardless of their affinity for weed.

For the now-household names who populate Judd Apatow’s movies, looking back on their early days in his failed TV series (Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared) is like remembering high school.

LOS ANGELES — Seth Rogen does many of his own stunts in the pot-action comedy Pineapple Express. But there’s one that always elicits an impressed gasp from the audience, regardless of their affinity for weed.

MONTREAL–Seth Rogen walked out onto the terminally tacky stage of the Metropolitan and the capacity house cheered for the star of the new film, Pineapple Express , opening this Wednesday.

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LOS ANGELES — Seth Rogen does many of his own stunts in the pot-action comedy Pineapple Express. But there’s one that always elicits an impressed gasp from the audience, regardless of their affinity for weed.

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High oil prices are driving up costs of not only gasoline and everything shipped by truck, but also the plastic bins and cardboard boxes that hold much of what you buy. Consumers may not notice the rising costs of store displays and packaging materials because they don’t directly pay for th…