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 ...
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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 ...
Actor turned filmmaker Owen Kline ('The Squid and the Whale') premiered his debut feature, about an aspiring teenage cartoonist, in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. By Jordan Mintzer The cinematic ...