A tightly plotted film with a steady pace, Wolfs sprinkles humor and charm amongst the steady dose of bullets, punchlines, and conspiracy theories it engages in.
Good times or bad, the path is consistently entertaining, accompanied by sparkling wit and great humanity.
The Holdovers is now in wide release, and critics are weighing in on Paul Giamatti's new coming-of-age Christmas dramedy.
AppleTV+ has released the first trailer for Sofia Coppola’s new movie On the Rocks. The film stars Rashida Jones as young wife and mother who feels that her husband (Marlon Wayans) might be stepping out on her, and so her lothario father (Bill Murray) decides that they should tail the husband to see what he’s really up to. This results in some unexpected father-daughter bonding. This looks…fine? The premise is cute and this is the first time Murray and Coppola have worked together since her breakthrough Lost in Translation back in 2003, and it’s always …
Under a cloud of secrecy, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has been developing a new half-hour mystery dramedy series at FX, according to multiple reports. Plot details are, appropriately, being kept a mystery, but Weiner will write and direct as well as executive produce the untitled series, which hails from FX Productions. I wish we had more to go on than that, but it'll take some serious sleuthing, as Weiner is notorious for keeping a tight lid on things, though Variety broke this intriguing piece of news. [caption id="attachment_600533" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via AMC[/caption] …
A curly-haired young female protagonist with expressively full eyebrows and artistic ambitions. A New York City setting. A pair of suitors, each achingly perfect for her in his own way. And J.J. Abrams among the executive producers. ...No, the new AppleTV+ dramedy Little Voice is not exactly Felicity. But it might fit a Felicity-shaped hole in your heart. Co-created by Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson, re-teaming after their collaboration on Broadway's Waitress, Little Voice stars Brittany O'Grady as Bess. She lives with her best friend Prisha (Shalini Bathina), who plays in an all-…
Courtney B. Vance and Niecy Nash play married restaurateurs whose son wants to leave the family business to pursue a career in wine tasting in the upcoming Netflix dramedy Uncorked. Written and directed by Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Insecure writer/producer Prentice Penny, the film follows Elijah (Mamoudou Athie) as he prepares to take the exam to become an expert sommelier. Here’s the official synopsis: Fueled by his love for wine, Elijah enrolls in a course to become a master sommelier, an elite designation given only to a handful who are able to pass its notoriously difficult exam. It'…
Netflix releases a look at their upcoming coming of age dramatic comedy film, Tall Girl, which stars newcomer Ava Michelle and Luke Eisner.
Dirty money leads all the way back to Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas, and Meryl Streep is here to clean it up in Steven Soderbergh's new dramedy, The Laundromat. The first trailer for the upcoming awards-contender and Netflix film gives us a great look at the tone of the flick and just what it's all about. Despite the rather generic and misleading title, itself a stand-in for a global money-laundering scheme worth hundreds of millions of dollars, this story is based on the real-life scandal of the Panama Papers, in which millions of documents …
From Michael Gallagher, the LGBTQ dramedy Funny Story follows what happens when Walter Campbell (Matthew Glave), an aging heartthrob trying to reconnect with his estranged adult daughter Nic (Jana Winternitz), gives her friend Kim (Emily Bett Rickards) a ride to their vacation in Big Sur that he decides to crash. While these two complicated individuals bond in unexpected ways, Walter’s own narcissism and need for forgiveness threatens to ruin what’s intended to be a beautiful trip. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actress Emily Bett Rickards talked about why this script appealed to her, what …
Seven-year-old newcomer Melody Hurd, who once appeared on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show following a viral video, has been cast as Kevin Hart's daughter in Sony's dramedy Fatherhood, Collider has exclusively learned. Paul Weitz is set to direct the adaptation of Matthew Logelin’s book Two Kisses for Maddy, in which Logelin's wife dies shortly after childbirth, leaving him to raise their daughter on his own. Dana Stevens (Safe Haven) adapted the book, and Weitz penned the current draft of the screenplay. [caption id="attachment_780427" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via @MelodyHurd/Instagram[/caption] Producers include …