Extract, the latest film from cult director Mike Judge, is another absurd look at everyday life similar to his previous directorial efforts (Office Space and the criminally underrated Idiocracy)—only ...

For a comedy, "Extract" is kinda depressing. Understand that wildly dysfunctional characters have become the norm in American comedies, but the characters in "Extract" give dysfunction a bad name. By ...

Mike Judge isn’t a great director. His previous films, Office Space and Idiocracy, have a pedestrian, amateurish quality that makes them look like high-school projects. But he does have a great ear ...

Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of 1999. The two movies were always intended as bookends, with ...

Displaying impeccable musical taste, Belushi and Shaffer, the act’s musical director, assembled an all-star lineup of R&B heavy hitters that included members of the legendary Stax/Volt studio band who ...