Akiva Schaffer

Review: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The rise and fall of egotistical pop star Conner4real (Andy Samberg), who hits the big-time after leaving his boy band, The Style Boyz, but soon faces a massive downturn in his career after an ill-conceived album and tour. REVIEW:...

The latest trailer for Popstar features an overrated piece of sh*t

Posted 10 years ago

A former boy band member does everything in his power to maintain his celebrity status when it becomes clear that his solo album is a failure in the mockumentary, POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING. Andy Samberg and the Lonely Island...

Never Stop Never Stopping with Lonely Island in the red-band Popstar trailer

Posted 10 years ago

When his new album fails to sell records, pop/rap superstar conner4real goes into a major tailspin and watches his celebrity high life begin to collapse. He'll try anything to bounce back, anything except reuniting with his old rap group The...

New poster for The Lonely Island movie Popstar: Never stop Never Stopping

Posted 10 years ago

Andy Samberg revealed a new Justin Bieber-esque teaser poster for his The Lonely Island movie last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as well as the official title of the upcoming film: POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING. Beside starring in the...

The UnPopular Opinion: The Watch

Posted 11 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

Tim Meadows joins The Lonely Island movie, which now has a proper title

Posted 11 years ago

The Lonely Island film began production just a few days ago with Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and Andy Samberg feeling "seriously zazzed" about the film which went by the title of TOP SECRET LONELY ISLAND MOVIE. This first Lonely Island feature is...

Top Secret Untitled Lonely Island Movie begins filming; plus plot and poster

Posted 11 years ago

I'm surprised it's taken this long but the trio behind The Lonely Island are finally heading to the big-screen. It was first announced last year but production has now begun on the TOP SECRET UNTITLED LONELY ISLAND MOVIE which stars...

Tegan and Sara/Lonely Island to perform Everything Is Awesome at the Oscars

Posted 12 years ago

Besides watching the Oscars to hear awesome victory speeches from J.K. Simmons, Michael Keaton, and Julianne Moore (I said it), we can also look forward to some musical performances. The Academy confirmed today that Tegan and Sarah and The Lonely...

Judd Apatow will produce Andy Samberg’s The Lonely Island movie

Posted 12 years ago

It was only a matter of time but The Lonely Island boys are heading to the big screen! Universal has acquired an untitled comedy project from the Lonely Island trio of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. The three...

C’mon Hollywood: Stop being so lazy, comedians!

Posted 14 years ago

This past weekend I decided to check out THE WATCH, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade. Although I wasn’t frothing at the mouth to see it, I have enjoyed the work of the cast members in...

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