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Weekender Interview | Jared HessJared Hess, co-writer and director of oddball comedies “Napoleon Dynamite” (2004) and “Nacho Libre” (2006), crafts movies of striking originality. His latest film, “Gentlemen Broncos” (2009), is an offbeat story about p...  

Splinterheads dresses up as "sexy Napoleon Dynamite." by Alison Hallett THE WORLD DID NOT ASK for "sexy Napoleon Dynamite"—but with the formulaic indie romcom Splinterheads, sexy Napoleon Dynamite is what we get. Justin (Thomas Middleditch) is our hapless twentysomething hero—he lives with his mother, has a chubby Asian sidekick, and practices karate (shirtless) in his spare time. Enter! A...  

11/5/09 - Sci-fi fans are finally getting their due in just-released "Gentleman Broncos," the latest flick from "Napoleon Dynamite" director, Jared Hess. A quirky, lo-fi celebration of the dweeby world of mythical creatures, spandex-clad voyagers and the pasty people who love them, "Broncos" is a weirder than weird trek through the bizarre realm of science fiction - and the equally bizarre realm of rural Utah.  

After Napoleon Dynamite became a sensation, there was actual serious talk about a sequel. Jon Heder, who became a star off the movie, was willing to do it. Now director Jared Hess puts a damper on any hopes for Pedro's re-election campaign.[...] Read more!  

New York TimesGentlemen Broncos: It's Like Napoleon Dynamite With a Plot and ActingTelevision Without PityApparently, it is impossible for Netflix to predict if someone will like Napoleon Dynamite. The movie is so quirky and ...'Gentlemen Broncos': Too many hitches in its giddyapUSA TodayHuffPost Review: Gentleman BroncosHuffington Post (blog)'Gentlemen Broncos': what's the right grade for a wrong-headed movie?Entertainment WeeklyLos Angeles...  

Movie Review | 2 out of 5 starsThe third time is not necessarily the charm for Jared and Jerusha Hess, co-writers of “Napoleon Dynamite” (2004), “Nacho Libre” (2006) and now “Gentlemen Broncos” (2009). Fans of “Napoleon” in particular wil...  

HOT SPRINGS — Film producer Sean Covel, an Edgemont native, and Alexa Vega, of the popular “Spy Kids” films, will attend a preview Friday of “Broken Hill,” a film starring Vega and Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton, at the Hot Springs Theater.  

``Gentlemen Broncos'' is a comedy so weird, so off, so simply wrong that even freakish hero Napoleon Dynamite would have a hard time lending it his catch word, ``Sweet.'' That it comes from the makers of ``Napoleon Dynamite'' is just sad. Not that...  

Napoleon Dynamite himself, Jon Heder, is starring in a new online zombie/comedy called, Woke Up Dead directed by Tim O’Donnell (Lizzie McGuire, Clueless). In WOKE UP DEAD, Heder stars as Drex Greene, a regular recent college grad who finds himself undergoing an inexplicable transformation that begins when he wakes up at the bottom of a water-filled bathtub. Drex’s roommate Matt, who has been eagerly filming his demise, informs him that he’s...  

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...  

Vampires may be the monster du jour, but the rambling, shambling zombie has been riding a decade-long resurgence of popularity as unkillable as the ghouls themselves. And most of those interpretations of zombie-dom hew fairly close to the standard depiction of the recently un-dead: nasty disposition, decaying flesh and an insatiable hunger for human meat. But what happens when one of the living dead is, more or less, just like you and me?  

Director Jared Hess wasn’t expecting much when “Napoleon Dynamite’’ was submitted to the Sundance Film Festival against his will in 2004. But the little indie film that could was picked up by Fox, and took in more than $44 million on a roughly $400,000 budget.  

Comparisons will be drawn between "Gentlemen Broncos," the latest feature from Jared Hess, and his debut feature, "Napoleon Dynamite." To an extent, this is fair: Both are tales of a young man growing up in a world he doesn't quite understand, surrounded by extremely odd characters whose sole purpose in life seems to be making his life more difficult. But that's where the similarities end. Whereas Napoleon (Jon Heder) was proactively awkward...  

New Live-action Zombie Comedy from Electric Farm Entertainment for Crackle.com: Woke Up Dead Starring Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder WOKE UP DEAD is the new live-action zombie comedy from Electric Farm Entertainment for Crackle.com, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s online video network. The original online series stars comedian Jon Heder (“Napoleon Dynamite,” “Blades of Glory”), Josh Gad (“Back to [...]  

Credit:Aaron Ruell/Access Films/MTV Films/Napoleon Pictures LTD/The Kobal ...Metromix Los AngelesBy Michael O'Connell, Special to Metromix It seems like a lifetime has passed since we first saw "Napoleon Dynamite." Blame that on those misleadingly dated ...and more »