Declan Cashin

Writing: the art of applying the ass to the seat

My latest feature for movies.ie on back of the release of Cedar Rapids.

Have you ever actually even read any of your insurance contracts? Do you avoid speaking to insurance sales people in the same way you dodge guilt-inducing calls from your mother?

So if the topic is such a (wait for it) ‘liability’, why then is Hollywood perpetually drawn to insurance and its peddlers as ‘premium’ plot devices for its movies? The latest vehicle to hedge its bets on the theme is Cedar Rapids (out April 29th), starring ‘The Office’ and ‘The Hangover’ funny-man Ed Helms as a sad-sack insurance agent whose small world is opened up when he is picked to represent his company as a convention in the titular Iowa town.

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…the trailer for One Day. Don’t blow it guys!

Courtesy of xkcd

First pic of Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in the HBO adap of ‘Game Change‘ (‘Race of a Lifetime‘ in Europe).

Yep, it has come to this.