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July 31, 2009: Gamer lapdance:
Have you had a long day at work? Can you think of anything that would make you feel relaxed? Well, I think I might know just the thing, courtesy of the viral marketing from GAMER . How about a customizable lapdance?
If you head on over to...
July 30, 2009: Bruno death threat:
Remember how that one time, in BRUNO, Sacha Baron Cohen went to the Middle East and begged a terrorist to kidnap him? Well, as it turns out, the other members of Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades didn’t take too kindly to being associated with all things...
July 20, 2009: News Schmews Etc!:
Because we can't possibly cover all the cool movie news out there, we've created "News, Shmews, Etc.", some quick links to movie news around the web we hope you'll enjoy. Pictures are clickable.
Simpsons style mural of epic X-men battle is...
July 13, 2009: JoBlo Podcast #23:
Almost Live!
After promising a live podcast last week, Moreno and I are left apologizing profusely for our lack of planning. His camping trip and subsequent car problems coupled with my basketball tournament and lack of ability to do anything physical...
July 10, 2009: Your review: Bruno:
The new JoBlo Strike Backs have launched and what better way to give them a test run that with some user reviews?! As I'm sure you know, BRUNO opens today in theaters and the film has already generated plenty of controversy. As our own Jenna Busch put...
July 10, 2009: Review: Bruno:
PLOT: Flamboyant Austrian fashion reporter Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen) is fired from his television show and is suddenly a nobody. In an attempt to become famous again, he heads to Los Angeles, attempting everything from a talk show involving a spinning...
June 30, 2009: Bruno can Digg it:
The other day Bruno/Sacha Baron Cohen took part in the latest Digg Dialogg, a live interview where the questions are posed by Digg's millions of users. What separates this from a usual chat is that the moderator doesn't choose the questions, the Digg users...
June 29, 2009: Review: Bruno:
PLOT:
Bruno is a gay Austrian fashion model who caused quite a stir by bringing a %100 Velcro suit to an event and making a lot of people angry. He is humiliated and to makes matters worse, he is dumped by his assistant/boyfriend. He then decides to...
June 26, 2009: Bruno cuts Jackson:
In the upcoming BRUNO , Sacha Baron Cohen as the titular gay fashion reporter talks to LaToya Jackson and, of course, asks snide questions about her controversial brother. With the shocking death of Michael Jackson, however, Cohen, BRUNO director Larry...
June 26, 2009: Bruno freaks Conan:
After the Los Angeles premiere of BRUNO last night, Bruno showed up on "The Tonight Show" last night and hung out with Conan O'Brien. And by "hung out," I mean "did a strip tease for" and "thrusted his package at." It starts out as a standard faux...
June 10, 2009: Bruno poses:
Sacha Baron Cohen is out and about promoting this summer's BRUNO so of course he's on the cover of one of the hottest movie magazines around... Marie Claire? Cohen (as Bruno) is on the cover of July's Marie Claire with model Alessandra Ambrosio and they...
June 1, 2009: Teabagging Eminem:
Update: Yes, it was staged .
By now, if you haven't seen the infamous teabagging of Eminem by an angel winged Sacha Baron Cohen in character as spectacularly gay fashion reporter Bruno at last night's MTV Movie Awards then you've certainly heard...
May 21, 2009: New Bruno trailer:
For those of you who were unable to watch the NSFW crazy redband BRUNO trailer with all its dildos, giant boobs and whatnot, Universal has done you a solid and put the greenband trailer online. While a lot is the same, there's also some new footage in...
May 8, 2009: Bruno says vassup!:
If you haven't heard by now, Bruno has a pretty big presence on MySpace. He's been posting text updates to his profile but today he checks in via a video message to tell all his followers a little bit about himself. Some of his reactions in this video are...
April 24, 2009: Bruno's field work:
Internet fanboys really are impossible to please. There's been a minor fanboy outcry that the below poster for Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming BRUNO isn't outrageous enough. Would him miming fellating a third world orphan have been better? Relax, people, the...
April 16, 2009: Bruno looking good:
Because we've all been clamoring for more pictures of Sacha Baron Cohen's gay Austrian fashion reporter alter ego Bruno posing in skin tight clothes and half-naked on a horse, here they are. On a related note, the movie has been trimmed enough to drop it down...
April 7, 2009: Early Bruno review!:
I got word right before the BRUNO footage was slated to debut at SXSW that Universal was holding the first test screening for the film in Marina del Ray. I tried as best I could to mobilize the JoBlo crew out in LA to crash the screening and write back...
April 3, 2009: Bruno's MeinSpace:
Gay Austrian fashion reporter BRUNO , as portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen, would like nothing more than to open his life to those of us he hasn't touched inappropriately in his upcoming film and the best way to do this is on the wondernets. For this reason, he...
April 2, 2009: Behold…Bruno!:
The first red band (i.e. NSFW) trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's BRUNO in which he masquerades as a gay Austrian fashionista and comically ambushes unsuspecting people is up and though it doesn't seem possible, this looks even funnier than BORAT. A lot...
March 30, 2009: NC-17 Bruno?:
Not that it's too shocking but according to Sharon Waxman over at "The Wrap" , Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming film chronicling his random assaults on regular people as flamboyantly gay fashionista Bruno has been given an initial NC-17 rating. According to...
March 10, 2009: Bruno at SXSW!:
For a big movie coming out this summer, things have been relatively quiet on the BRUNO front. No posters, no trailer, no viral marketing...nothing. That's all about to change. Sacha Baron Cohen's next comedy masterpiece will be making a big splash at this...
January 26, 2009: Bruno Fashionably Late:
It appears as though we, the viewing public, will have to wait a few extra months to watch, as Sasha Baron Cohen instigates, irritates, and humiliates the unsuspecting public in his highly anticipated tale of the mesh messiah BRUNO .
Universal has...
November 18, 2008: Bruno Strikes Again:
By now everyone and their mother should be able to recognize Sasha Baron Cohen, and at the most the gay Austrian news reporter Bruno, who was popularized on "Da Ali G Show". As you all must know by now, Cohen is currently shooting a Bruno film, and many...
September 29, 2008: Bruno wreaks havoc:
Sacha Baron Cohen as flamboyant gay fashion guru Bruno has been wreaking havoc all over the place for an upcoming film but when he attacked a runway in Milan, he was arrested and, of course, caught in photographs and on film. This flick looks like it's gonna be...
May 20, 2008: Bruno harrasses Arnie:
The last time we saw BRUNO, he was sporting a tiny faux hawk , which in the early part of this decade, was huge in the Austrian gay club scene. But now, thanks to some candids from his new movie, Bruno is sporting a feathery, pristine bob that reminds me of...
April 1, 2008: Bruno busts a move:
The following clip has been online for several days now, but due to our staff’s round the clock efforts to bring you the Jake Gyllenhaal as Spider-man scoop , I guess it sort of passed us by. It was filmed at a Wichita airport by one of dem cell phone thingies,...
March 5, 2008: Bruno currently filming?:
I didn’t think Sacha Baron Cohen would be able to pull off making BRUNO after BORAT’s success made the actual comedian more famous than his characters. But according to reports, BRUNO is wreaking gay Austrian havoc as we speak, as he was recently spotted doing...
