There was a moment in watching Copshop when I found myself trying to find out the two title pitch that made it come to fruition, and I settled on “It’s Assault on Precinct 13 meets a less over the top Smokin’ Aces.” Imagine my feelings of both pride and embarrassment when I recalled that Copshop’s writer (along with Kurt McLeod and Mark…

When Fleabag surged to the forefront of the conversation with its edgy fourth-wall-breaking protagonist, the handwriting was on the wall. Just a few weeks ago Together premiered which has its leads talking at the camera and now The Good House employs it for no good reason other than not trusting the screenplay or Sigourney Weaver’s…

Silent Night went into production early in 2020, before the world as we once knew it was irrevocably changed. This dark British comedy, filled with biting commentary about global and British politics and the environmental crisis, would have been a surefire hit in that “before” world. This film isn’t quite like other end-of-the-world dystopian hellscapes…

“I have a genuine love for people,” Tammy Faye Bakker says in Michael Showalter’s new film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Tammy Faye was a complicated woman: an evangelist and conservative television personality who was also an early advocate for gay rights and openly talked about the AIDS crisis in the worst years of the…