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Review || BY Stephanie Zacharek || 03 29 2012 3:50 PM

REVIEW: Hockey Comedy Goon Doesn't Sermonize About Violence, And That's a Good Thing

REVIEW: Hockey Comedy Goon Doesn't Sermonize About Violence, And That's a Good Thing

Michael Dowse’s hockey comedy Goon is crude, violent and deeply enjoyable. It also offers the chance to see Liev Schreiber — a guy who’s played Hamlet, ferchrissakes — living it up as a bloodthirsty minor-league thug in the kind of ’70s eight-track-guy mustache that only hockey players, bless their hearts, still try to get away with. That, to me, is catnip in the form of a hockey puck.
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Newswire || BY Jen Yamato || 07 06 2011 6:40 PM

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jonathan Levine and Will Reiser to Reunite in Jamaica

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg first teamed up on the big screen with pals Jonathan Levine and Will Reaser in the forthcoming 50/50, based on Reaser's own fight with cancer. Next, the gang will tackle Jamaica, another Reaser tale based on true events, "loosely based on a vacation [Reaser] took to Jamaica with his grandmother when he was 14." In a word: Hot. As with 50/50, Reaser will script with Levine directing and Rogen and Goldberg producing. [Press release]