Jared Hess

Getty Images DON'T MISS Zimbio Movie Review: Gentlemen Broncos While in film school at Brigham Young University, Jared and Jerusha Hess wrote a screenplay and recruited their friends -- including a then-unknown actor named Jon Heder -- to help turn it into what would become one of the most successful movies of 2004, Napoleon Dynamite . Since then they've made two more films: 2006's Nacho Libre (starring Jack Black ), and Gentlemen Broncos , which will be released October 30. A Gentlemen Broncos poster (via Iwatchstuff.com) Napoleon Dynamite gained its cult classic status by following an awkward misfit in rural Idaho, and Gentlemen Broncos ... Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New Zealand comedian Jemaine Clement is best known as one-half of musical duo Flight of the Conchords, but in the movie "Gentlemen Broncos" he takes wing on his own playing an ego-driven science fiction author. Clement has already made his mark in television and music, earning an Emmy nomination this year for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for his role in cable network HBO's "Flight of the Conchords," which is based on his Grammy winning band. But Clement's success in the show about two New Zealand musicians who move to New York to start a music career has ... Read Full Story

Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "Gentlemen Broncos" — This latest comedy from the makers of indie sensation "Napoleon Dynamite" is so weird, so off, so simply wrong that even freakish nerd Napoleon would have a hard time lending it his catch word, "Sweet." The husband-and-wife team of director Jared Hess and co-writer Jerusha Hess, who followed "Napoleon Dynamite" with basically the same movie in "Nacho Libre," strain to mine another misfit story in like vein. Michael Angarano stars as an aspiring sci-fi writer whose story is stolen by his literary hero (Jemaine Clement). Clement is the lone highlight by virtue of being ... Read Full Story

Eccentricity outweighs the comedy in writer/director Jared Hess' "Gentlemen Broncos." Read Full Story

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