When I met Jody Hill last winter in New York City, the North Carolina-born writer-director was surrounded by friends after finishing a taping of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” to promote the film.

The Foot Fist Way has been trying to break into theaters since clawing its way down film-fest row, beginning at Sundance in ’06. It took Will Ferrell and his comedy life partner Adam McKay to get ...

The Foot Fist Way has been trying to break into theaters since clawing its way down film-fest row, beginning at Sundance in ’06. It took Will Ferrell and his comedy life partner, Adam McKay, to get ...

T.L. Solis is a former legal and entertainment professional that has since switched to writing. Growing up with a passion for vintage horror movies and offbeat foreign films, she enjoys just about ...

The moronic Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) would be just another tired spin-off of Napoleon Dynamite were it not for his profession. Fred, the martial arts instructor at the center of Jody Hill’s “The ...

The Foot Fist Way is a 2006 American low-budget martial arts dark comedy film directed by Jody Hill. The film follows Fred Simmons (Danny McBride), who has a fourth-degree black belt in tae kwon do, ...

The opening on Friday of “The Foot Fist Way” marks the closing chapter of a surreal journey for filmmaker Jody Hill and star Danny McBride, whose unlikely ascendance may be the first true bootleg ...

Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one would pay a cent to see them. That’s more or less what ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Director and former taekwondo student Jody Hill made ‘The Foot Fist Way’ ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Will Ferrell is the reigning king of comedies about arrogant jerks, so it's fitting that he is the executive producer of the ...

This hilarious, high-kicking nonsense cost two cents and looks it — hell, it was shot in 19 days, but you'll laugh helplessly anyway. Danny McBride (remember the name) is a comic dynamos Fred Simmons, ...