A Trip On The Pineapple Express
Aug 10th, 2008 · Movie critic Bob Mondello and Andrea Seabrook chat about the new stoner-comedy, Pineapple Express, from the Judd Apatow consortium.
Aug 10th, 2008 · Movie critic Bob Mondello and Andrea Seabrook chat about the new stoner-comedy, Pineapple Express, from the Judd Apatow consortium.
Aug 8th, 2008 · Slate.com's Mark Jordan Legan has the lowdown on three new films: Elegy, an art house adaptation of Philip Roth's novel Dying Animal, starring Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, starring America Ferrera; and Pineapple Express starring Seth Rogan, which combines two great American genres, the stoner flick and the action movie.
Aug 6th, 2008 · Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new stoner-action comedy, Pineapple Express starring and co-written by Seth Rogen.
Aug 1st, 2008 · The Judd Apatow comedy team has turned every stoner's worst nightmare — our ganja-connoisseur heroes must flee a corrupt cop and a ruthless druglord — into a surprisingly artful comedy.
Jul 31st, 2008 · The feud is over. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong have announced their first comedy tour in more than 25 years. The pair starred in eight films — mostly as stoners stumbling through life. "We've decided to ... name this tour 'Cheech and Chong Light Up America,' " Marin says.
Apr 25th, 2008 · Asian-American stoners Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay while a new Errol Morris film, Standard Operating Procudure, documents the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq. Bob Mondello says the latter is an eye-opener.
Dec 19th, 2006 · On David Crosby's "Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves)," a piano gently rumbles, while vocal harmonies, stacked atop each other for maximum choir effect, melt over the instruments. The result is part choral music, part stoner rock; it's easy to imagine the joint being passed from one musician to the next.
Aug 25th, 2006 · The backbeat of Gov't Mule's "Mr. High and Mighty" is a heavy-lidded blast of '70s stomp-rock -- Foghat's "Slow Ride" functions as a not-so-distant cousin. But rather than extol stoner virtues, the song expresses indignation over the doings of the craven and powerful.