Director Jay Roach’s “Game Change,” which aired on HBO earlier this year, ranks among the most blockheaded political movies ever made. Without so much as smirking, Roach and writer Danny Strong ask the viewer to accept the impossible proposition that Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was so ill-informed when she joined the McCain campaign that […]
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Director Jay Roach is carving quite the niche for himself: making a mockery of our political system. Roach is in talks to direct El Presidente, a buddy comedy about a disgraced former President and his Secret Service agent. The comedy, written by Parks and Recreation scribe Dan Goor, sees a sleazy ex-commander-in-chief targeted for assassination
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Just in time for both elections and North Carolina politics is The Campaign, Will Ferrell’s latest comedy of idiots. Ferrell will play a lecherous North Carolina Democratic congressman who faces a serious challenge in the form of a Republican buffoon played by Zach Galifianakis. The film is directed by Jay Roach, who most recently tackled
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