In 2012, Mark Duplass and Aubrey Plaza starred in Safety Not Guaranteed, a charmingly lo-fi genre-buster that, to great effect, merged time travel with a quirky rom-com. Duplass treads similar territory in The One I Love, another hipster-Twilight Zone offering about attractive white folk confronting circumstances entirely beyond their understanding. Duplass plays Ethan, a husband […]
Allison Hallett
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Neigh-Bros
Mediocrity at its most affable in Neighbors
“Just because we have a house and a baby doesn’t mean we’re old people,” Seth Rogen muses at the beginning of Neighbors. He’s delusional, of course—it totally does—and the gods aren’t about to let hubris of that magnitude slide. Zeus snaps his fingers and a frat house appears next door to Rogen’s adorable new home. […]
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An Easy Summer Retreat
Kings of Summer is almost Stand By Me
The Kings of Summer is about two typical teenage boys—boys with parent troubles, girl troubles, and friend troubles. But rather than work through their troubles in tried-and-true teen-movie fashion, The Kings of Summer's beleaguered protagonists grab a nerdy sidekick and take to the woods, determined to build a new life on their own terms. Joe […]