“The Humans”, based on the award winning stage play is not only one of the best stage to screen adaptions this year, but might be the best example of mainstream genre fusion this year. Is it a Thanksgiving horror film, a comedy, a suspense drama? It’s all those things and none of them. While “The […]
When the film opens on Beanie Feldstein (“Lady Bird,” “Booksmart”) sitting alone in a library wearing virtually the same schoolgirl uniform from her last two films, you are already disappointed that she isn’t trying something different. She does, however, have a British accent for this coming of age story. We watch her experience growing pains
Olivia Wilde’s directorial feature debut could have easily been the gender-flipped version of “Superbad” with lame jokes and crude humor. However written by four females who understand what teenage comedies have been missing, inject “Booksmart” with wit, savvy, and quotable dialogue. As an actress Wilde has been hit or miss when it comes to comedy,