Awards
Bucking the trend, several genre movies have won the best picture Oscar.
Nov. 13, 2014
Company Town
Netflix on Tuesday pulled out of ‘Paris Paramount,’ a new Nancy Meyers rom-com film, after disagreements over the budget, according to a person familiar with the production who declined to be named.
March 16, 2023
24 Frames
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Jan. 23, 2011
Movies
Alison Brie co-wrote and stars in “Spin Me round,” an indie comedy about an Olive Garden-like restaurant manager on a corporate retreat in Italy.
Aug. 19, 2022
July 26, 2011
Starring “Shiva Baby’s” Rachel Sennott and “The Bear’s” Ayo Edebiri, director Emma Seligman’s queered teen comedy puts a wild, violent spin on high school life.
Aug. 24, 2023
Oct. 4, 2010
French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie (“Stranger by the Lake”) takes a big swing at Islamophobia, female objectification and sexual hypocrisy, but fails to find a workable tone bridging farce and satire.
June 23, 2023
Sept. 13, 2011
Books
Saul Austerlitz thinks Will Ferrell’s ‘Anchorman’ is so important he starts a class with it — and wrote about its place in history in ‘Kind of a Big Deal.’
Aug. 21, 2023