comedy
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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).
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?
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.
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...
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.
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.












