Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) are on the eve of their high school graduation. The previous four years have been challenging for the two friends, who have prioritized their grades in order to ensure that they get into good colleges, which does work, with the duo being well on their way to starting…

The Andrews are an ordinary suburban American family. They are lead by patriarch Bill (John Astin), a publicity whizz who is chasing after a particularly important contract. The key to earning it comes in the form of his wife, Ellen (Barbara Harris), a tightly-wound housewife, and daughter Annabel (Jodie Foster), a rebellious teenager whose academic…

The perpetual drunkard and constant cinematic genius W.C. Fields once famously quipped that when it comes to making movies, “never work with animals or children”. How wrong he was – there certainly have been instances where working with them has resulted in disaster, but some of the most compelling performances ever committed to film have…

Don Johnston (Bill Murray) should, by all means, be a happy man. He is quite wealthy, having made a fortune in the computer business. He is in his retirement years, content to live them out in relative peace. However, things start to decline rapidly – his girlfriend Sherry (Julie Delpy) grows weary of his dour,…

Sometimes, its enough for a film to just be fun and nothing else – not everything can be audacious, challenging cinema. On occasion, I’ll venture into a film that I know will have very little impact other than being a diverting good time, and that’s more than adequate when the mood calls for it. Kinky…

Remember when parody films were actually good? When they were well-written, respectful and most importantly, funny? When they were actually works of comedic genius rather than convoluted, low-brow excuses to make fun of other films? There have been some great ones throughout the years, but they have mostly faded, at least in the most traditional…

There’s something so satisfying about seeing some of the greatest performers in history duking it out in trashy but entertaining films. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford established this with the iconic Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and set off a chain reaction of similarly dark and twisted female-focused films that are nothing more than perverted…

Any wine country is commonly known as a place of a few defining features, regardless of where you are in the world – beautiful scenery, serene surroundings and a lot of drunken people often causing a ruckus. This was the primary leaping point for Wine Country, the debut feature film by comedic iconoclast Amy Poehler….

Jen (Jackie van Beek) and Mel (Madeleine Sami) are best friends that run a very different kind of relationship agency – rather than matching people together, they specialize in tearing them apart. When someone is in a relationship they want out of, they venture to the humble offices of “The Breaker Upperers”, who have a…

Tragedy is easy, its comedy that is difficult. This is an adage that has existed as long as people have been endeavouring to make audiences laugh – it is also the theme residing at the very core of Paddleton, the offbeat and endearing comedy-drama from the mind of independent cinema’s most enduring auteurs, the Duplass…