Judd Apatow

"The Bubble" is a comedy from Judd Apatow that struggles to find something to funny to say about the pandemic but instead feels formless, stale and desperate.

Judd Apatow is the maestro of the dick joke, the current reigning king of gross-out humor, and the guy who brought you all those hey-bro-let’s-get-drunk-and-get-laid movies. But Apatow’s secret weapon, and the likely reason for his broad appeal, is that he’s admittedly a family-values guy at heart. From The 40-Year-Old Virgin to This Is 40, the binge drinking and drug use and sexcapades in Apatow ...[Read More]

This is 40 takes us back to Pete (Paul Rudd), wife Debbie (Leslie Mann) and daughters Sadie and Charlotte (Mann and writer/director Judd Apatow’s real-life children Maude and Iris) who we meet up with again five years after the events of Knocked Up. Apparently turning 40 means it’s midlife-crisis time, and this couple both hit the landmark birthday the same week, though Debbie is in denial, ...[Read More]