The novels, and the movies based on the novels of, best-selling author Colleen Hoover seem to have one mission, and that is to make you sad. Sure, maybe by the […]
On the eve of chatting with Splitsville co-writers Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino (Covino also directed the film), it occurred to me that my last sit-down with them was […]
When writers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin wrote their first feature, The Climb, some 5-6 years ago, they ended up making one of the definitive works about modern friendship […]
I wholeheartedly reject the label of romantic-comedy for writer/director Celine Song’s (Past Lives) latest, Materialists, for no other reason than the film takes the ideas of relationships and coupling and […]
Sometimes the simplest idea is the most effective. Case in point: the feature debut from writer/director Christy Hall, Daddio, about two people in a New York City yellow taxi swapping […]
Unlike some (many?), I haven’t grown weary of superhero films as a genre. What I have grown exhausted by are specifically Sony-made Spider-Verse movies that try to walk the line […]
In the world of Jane Austen adaptations, there’s always room for creativity. From Hulu’s recent Fire Island, reimagining Pride & Prejudice on the gay party island, to my personal favorite, […]
When writer/director/actor Cooper Raiff began making films, he tended to borrow not just from events in his life, but also the mental place he was in his life at that […]
Filmmaker Cooper Raiff (Shithouse) is only 24 years old, yet he’s delivered one of the most emotionally mature, fully formed dramas of this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Cha Cha Real […]
Yes, the Sundance Film Festival ended more than two weeks ago. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t still thinking about the films we saw during this year’s all-virtual event. In […]
Italian author Elena Ferrante (a pseudonym, no one actually knows who Ferrante is) has written 11 novels; her four-book Neopolitan series has sold millions of copies, been translated into dozens […]
In 2015, writer Matt Teague had an article published in Esquire entitled “The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word” that focused on the roughly two-year period that his […]