Movie review: 'Dinner for Schmucks'

Not even Steve Carell and Paul Rudd can save this story of misunderstanding and humiliation from being distinctly unfunny. Not even Steve Carell and Paul Rudd can save this story of misunderstanding and humiliation from being distinctly unfunny.

Is This Man Connecticuts Best Living Writer?

Rick Moody grew up in New Canaan, then wrote a hit novel that sliced the town to pieces. Now, hes got a new novel and, after that, another new direction

Old Spice Guy lands role in Aniston movie

Isaiah Mustafa has been tapped to join the cast of the film "Horrible Bosses," starring Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Jason Sudeikis and Jason Bateman.

Movie review: Steve Carell and Paul Rudd can't quite carry 'Dinner for Schmucks' ** 1/2

By KIRK BAIRD BLADE STAFF WRITER Steve Carell may be leaving The Office and his buffoonish Michael Scott after the upcoming season, but the character isn't necessarily leaving him. Certainly not anytime soon. In the new comedy Dinner For Schmucks , Carell plays Barry, a low-level IRS employee who happens to be a schmuck. Barry might as well be named Michael Scott; both are clueless, well-meaning ...

All the fun of the Fringe: The best of Edinburgh this summer

The Edinburgh Fringe is 64 years old this year but there are few signs of impending retirement or indeed of growing old gracefully. For walking sticks and bus passes, read interactive promenade shows, roaming the city guided only by an iPod, and puppetry on board a vintage Routemaster.