A lot of movies are funny, but very few are funny on a cellular level. Few announce themselves as something different from the very first frames. Even most good comedies are mostly built from familiar ...

This month’s roundup of under-the-radar titles on your streaming subscription services features a host of memorable comedies, plus a harrowing documentary about the life of a war correspondent.

“Funny Pages,” a scruffy, grungy, likably tossed-together sketchbook of a low-budget indie comedy, typifies a paradox that now runs through a great deal of independent cinema. The movie, set in a ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Owen Kline's debut stars Daniel Zolghadri as an aspiring underground cartoonist who rejects high school and suburbia after his mentor dies. Sheltered, creative adolescents tend to romanticize the ...

In recent movies like Air and Funny Pages, television series like Our Flag Means Death, and plays like Annie Baker’s The Flick, Matthew Maher has made a name for himself as someone who can bring an ...

Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight earlier this year, Owen Kline’s Funny Pages now has its trailer. Produced by the Safdie Brothers, Funny Pages follows a ...

Pick your mentors carefully: Without any overt lectures or lesson plans for the audience, that’s the ink- and blood-stained takeaway in “Funny Pages,” a bracingly harsh coming-of-age comedy from a ...

Viewers unfamiliar with the Depression-era pornographic comics known as “Tijuana bibles” will get an abrupt introduction to them in the first scene of “Funny Pages.” Close-ups of the crudely drawn, ...

Owen Kline’s wonderful feature debut about an aspiring comic-book creator delves into a buzzingly alive, if anxious, world of cartooning. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...