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Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries) Talks Steve Pink’s Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Surely the only piece on the decade-hopping comedy sequel to reference the Buddha's sense of humor and diss both film school and Vladimir Nabokov.

February 23, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows

Two Kiwi comic geniuses mash up Christopher Guest and the vampire genre to create a cinematic sitcom about the bourgeois undead.

February 13, 2015

Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas) Talks Jake Kasdan’s Sex Tape

The director of V/H/S and Autoerotic can't get up any enthusiasm for this new "analog" comedy.

December 25, 2014

Ti West (The Sacrament) Talks Chris Rock’s Top Five

The new directorial effort by one of the funniest men in Hollywood goes beyond humor to reach something personal, and in that lies its greatness.

December 10, 2014

Kentucker Audley (Open Five 2) Talks Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s Dumb and Dumber To

When he was 13, he loved the original and thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. Twenty years on, will he think the sequel is funny at all?

November 19, 2014

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure

A dramatic pretext is brilliantly played to comic effect in this dry and very funny Swedish film that took Cannes by storm earlier this year.

October 28, 2014

Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies) Talks Miguel Arteta’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

It's a relief when you can find a fun kids film that's not a cartoon and is made by an accomplished director (who can still nail a good pee-pee joke).

October 14, 2014

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Brian Trenchard-Smith’s Drive Hard

The Australian journeyman auteur's new under-the-radar genre movie treat is out Friday. Is it possible his versatility has also been his undoing?

October 1, 2014

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Daniel Schechter’s Life of Crime

A kidnapped wife whose husband doesn't want her back. A deft adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel. A young filmmaker showing his versatility.

August 27, 2014

Michael Mohan (Save the Date) Talks Luke Greenfield’s Let’s Be Cops

What happens when a filmmaker watches movies with a completely open mind? Well, sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places...

August 19, 2014

Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas) Talks Jake Kasdan’s Sex Tape

The director of V/H/S and Autoerotic can't get up any enthusiasm for this new "analog" comedy.

July 22, 2014

Screenwriter Ben York Jones (Like Crazy) Talks the Worlds of Louie and Maron

If they had made baseball cards for comedy writer/performers of the mid-90s, I would have collected them voraciously.

July 19, 2014