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, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Home to films like “Lady Bird,” “Eighth Grade” and “Mid90s,” A24 is synonymous with a certain brand of indie, auteur-driven coming ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Owen Kline’s darkly hilarious directorial debut “Funny Pages” is a coming-of-age tale that finds the sublime in the grotesque, and ...
It’s rare, but there are times when a movie feels “special” from the very first frames. Funny Pages is one of those movies, apparent almost immediately that it depicts a different place, with ...
"The Squid and the Whale" star Owen Kline makes his feature directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight. There’s something darkly funny about growing up. “Funny Pages,” which ...
Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...
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 ...
Owen Kline’s first feature, “Funny Pages,” is a film of ideas, or, rather of a single idea, with a conspicuous subject. Like many such films, its foreground of action and background of character are ...
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 ...
At a certain point in “Funny Pages,” a calculatedly abrasive portrait of the comic-book artist as a young man, I lost count of exactly how many of its characters I’d envisioned falling off a cliff. I ...
Scott Simon speaks to writer and director Owen Kline about his new movie, "Funny Pages," in which a young cartoonist explores the relationship between creativity and craft. "Funny Pages," a new film ...