Action comedies in which workaday schlubs wade unwittingly into life-or-death situations are a dime a dozen these days and it’s easy to see why — a fish-out-of-water story with unusually high stakes makes for easy laughs. John Francis Daley and...
10. The Big Sick The Big Sick is famously based on the real relationship of its married writers, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, and the authentic complexity of an actual intimate relationship can be felt in every frame. Nanjiani and...
The very first shot of James Franco’s The Disaster Artist is a close-up of Kristen Bell’s face. She’s the first in a series of celebrities who directly address the camera to tell us how much they love The Room, one...
Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen’s documentary Spettacolo focuses on the tiny Italian village of Monticchiello, which for over 50 years has been putting on an annual original play starring the town’s own residents and depicting their own struggles and triumphs....
When it first went into production, the new Kristen Wiig vehicle Girl Most Likely was simply called Imogene, after its main character. Hollywood studios have an unfortunate habit of replacing perfectly fine movie titles with frustratingly bland ones – I’m still unreasonably bummed...
Matt Jay’s 34-minute short Any Day Now tells you a lot about itself just from its title and the fact that it shares that title with a Lifetime TV series, a Dutch sci-fi movie, a Burt Bacharach song, and at...
