After an extremely well received reception at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, becoming one of the hottest buys at the festival from distributor CBS Films, and releasing a great first teaser late last month, writer-director Jordan Vogt-Roberts' coming of age comedy "The Kings of Summer," has release...
Read More »Before the Trailer We Thought: Extremely well received at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, "The Kings of Summer" (formerly titled "Toy's House") is said to herald the arrival of a fresh new comic voice in writer-director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. The coming-of-age tale was swiftly picked up by CBS Films...
Read More »While as a network NBC continues to have trouble in terms of ratings and finding new series people want to watch this season, it's also still home to one of the most charming shows on TV -- "Parks and Recreation," which was at its strongest last night with "Bailout," an episode that tackled socialis...
Read More »Bob Byington’s "Somebody Up There Likes Me" is about a guy who doesn’t grow up. In fact, he doesn’t even age over the film’s span of about three decades in his life. It may have something to do with a mysterious briefcase, the origins of which are only ever suggested by animated cloud interludes and...
Read More »Actor Nick Offerman is best known as the mustachioed boss Rick Swanson on "Parks and Recreation," and in the trailer for "Somebody Up There Likes Me" he sticks to the deadpan, situational comedy he does so well. An existential comedy about the small successes and failures that make up our existence,...
Read More »Comedic power couple, Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, are back in Park City for a second year in a row following their work together on last year's "Smashed," for the deadpan family comedy "Toy's House" (acquired yesterday by CBS Films). Fans of Mullally's deranged guest appearance on Offerman's b...
Read More »After the premiere screening of his wonderful debut feature “Toy’s House,” director Jordan Vogt-Roberts – responsible for the short “Successful Alcoholics” and a veteran of “Funny Or Die Presents…” – told the audience his influences for his first feature included early Amblin films like “The Goonies...
Read More »If you reside in Los Angeles you know that Cinefamily is a cinephile's dream. For the second year, the non-profit theater -- which is devoted to "finding and presenting interesting and unusual programs of exceptional, distinctive, weird and wonderful films"-- is holding its Fantastic Elastic 24-Hour...
Read More »Ordinarily, toy brand + celeb voice = us falling asleep. But, it's Lego and we pretty much like everyone who is coming on board a lot, and the guys directing it are solid too. So, color us optimistic. And really, how can you not like these latest additions?
Read More »"Somebody Up There Likes Me," which recently took home the Special Jury Prize at Locarno, is a sometimes-bitter comedy that follows the vicissitudes of love and friendship over the course of several decades of its protagonists' lives. Having charmed audiences and critics alike, director Bob Byington...
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