Can animals act? Reasonable people might say no: our four-legged friends can’t read a script or build character, and if they appear charismatic on screen, it’s simply due to obedience to commands, plus the deft touch of an editor. The more adaptive among us might say that these last two points apply to some human … Read more
Red One star Mary Elizabeth Ellis has joined the cast of Irish wedding comedy Ditched. diverse He hears. Contracts have yet to be signed but negotiations are ongoing and shooting is tentatively scheduled for May next year. Based on the best-selling novel “Bride Squad Runaway” by Caroline Grace Cassidy and Lisa C. Curry, the feature … Read more
Paul Reiser returns to the world of stand-up comedy with his first comedy special in over 30 years – CBS News Watch CBS News Comedy legend Paul Reiser is the star of “Mad About You” and “Stranger Things.” He returns to stand-up with “Life, Death, and Rice Pudding,” his first special in over 30 years. … Read more
Five years after his first film, “All This Victory,” won the Grand Prix and the Audience Award at the Critics’ Week in Venice, Lebanese director Ahmed Ghossein is preparing to shoot his next film. The director’s sophomore effort, Side Effects of Trust in Life, was selected as part of this year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Agora … Read more
The title prize isn’t exactly what you might expect in A Nice Indian Boy, a romantic comedy that brings a welcome quirky angle to this grand subgenre of love stories tangled in Indian social mores and family politics across generations. . In many of these films, Naveen (Karan Soni) would be the most desirable character … Read more
How do you make a beautiful, life-affirming film about death that appeals to general audiences almost everywhere? Up-and-coming Hong Kong director Anselm Chan has the answer in “The Last Dance,” in which a cash-strapped former wedding planner and a stern old Taoist priest become unlikely partners in the funeral business. Featuring an all-star cast headed … Read more
Although it feels like a resounding paean to the city that bears its name, the most entertaining element of “Lost & Found in Cleveland” is its locations, locations, locations — widescreen images by cinematographer Davon Slinger provide an engaging, eclectic tour of one of the cities the film showcases . It’s also strangely behind the … Read more
That the mother-son film remains, for some reason, the least covered quarter when it comes to on-screen parent-child relationships may say something about the industry’s patriarchal bias — though the best examples say a lot about how men are raised and made. A modestly framed domestic comedy with surprising reserves of wisdom and sadness, Darren … Read more
Based on the novel by Matt Haig, The Radleys is a vampire horror-comedy that can’t quite get its tone right, so more often than not, it ends up in a lukewarm middle ground. The British production stars Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald as Peter and Helen Radley, vampiric parents in recovery whose suburban normalcy can … Read more