comedy
Hail, Caesar! and Cognitive Wanderances on Such Subjects as Overcommitment, Student Debt, Beyoncé’s Specific Juju and Bill Cosby’s Guilt
Terence Nance on the latest film by the Coen brothers, among other things...
Alix Lambert (The Mark of Cain) Talks with Fred Armisen (Portlandia) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast
Armisen and Lambert, who have known each other since they were students, share stories from their friendship of close to 30 years.
Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang’s Master of None
The latest binge-watching sensation is great television exactly because it doesn't conform to the medium's conventions.
David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Seth MacFarlane’s Ted 2
What happens when you want to see the sequel because you really enjoyed the first movie, but then your wife points out you never actually saw it?
Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Patrick Brice’s The Overnight
What if a 21st-century sex comedy could be smart as well as bawdy, have well-drawn adult characters as well as dick jokes?
Emily Hagins (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) Talks Andrew Disney’s Balls Out
As indie comedies are becoming increasingly bland, this one stands out from the crowd by being a studio-style spoof.
Filmmakers Rodney Ascher and Lloyd Kaufman Talk Cannes Film Festival Stories
As the French Riviera's great festival finishes, our final two Cannes alumni recall their experiences braving the craziness of the Croisette.
Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Felix Herngren’s The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
This poignant comedy drama takes a sideways look at 20th century history and one man's remarkable journey through it.
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.











