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New Movie Releases: ‘Grown Ups 2,’ ‘Pacific Rim,’ and An Update From Johnny Depp

The Takeaway’s Movie Date team,  Kristen Meinzer  and  Rafer Guzman, review this week’s major releases. Opening this week: “Grown Ups 2,” a sequel to the 2010 buddy comedy starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade; and “Pacific Rim”–the science fiction film set in the 2020s when Earth is under attack by monsters called Kaiju.   The […]

After Adam Sandler Sweeps the Razzies, We Ask: What is the Worst Movie Ever?

Movie Date: ‘J. Edgar,’ ‘Jack and Jill,’ ‘Melancholia’

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Happy Hanukkah from Ben Kweller: remixing the holidays

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The Dudeness of ‘Funny People’

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You don’t mess with the (real-life) Zohan

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In You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, Adam Sandler plays an Israeli martial-artist-turned-hairdresser. On The Takeaway this morning, we spoke with Oded Gabay, a real-life Israeli hairdresser … with a black belt.

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Zohan’s Arab-American Co-Star

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Egyptian-born actor Sayed Badreya, who appears in the new Adam Sandler movie “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan;� Badreya talks about what it’s like to be cast as the Arab “bad guy” in Hollywood movies