The stand-up comedian, who plays Mr. Smee in “Peter Pan & Wendy,” gets material from his kids and finds common ground in writing and gardening.
Category: Movies
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‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Review: A New Girl in Neverland
The filmmaker David Lowery updates the classic tale with his own pixie dust, saving what’s good and scuttling the rest.
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Questions Swirl About NBCUniversal’s Future After C.E.O.’s Shocking Firing
Mike Cavanagh, now in charge of NBCUniversal, is meeting with talent including Lester Holt and Jimmy Fallon as he ponders next steps for the business.
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‘The Eight Mountains’ Review: A Bond Forged Amid Splendor
Set in the Italian Alps, this tender memory movie charts an intense friendship across both decades and continents.
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‘R.M.N.’ Review: A Bleak Diagnosis for Romania
The director Cristian Mungiu, a powerhouse of the Romanian New Wave, examines a village’s explosive reaction to a bakery hiring some foreign workers.
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‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse
Ralph Fiennes delivers an animated performance of the T.S. Eliot works, but the film doesn’t quite succeed in bringing the stage into the cinema.
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‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Review: Periods and Question Marks
Judy Blume’s groundbreaking novel about puberty — and so much more — finally gets the adaptation it deserves.
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‘The End of Sex’ Review: When Domesticity Kills the Mood
This comedy follows the misadventures of a bored 40-something married couple who are attempting to spice up their sex life.
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‘Polite Society’ Review: Pride and Plenty of Fists
This exuberant genre mash-up borrows from everything — westerns, musicals, heist capers, horror, Jane Austen and James Bond — to tell the story of two sisters.
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‘Big George Foreman’ Review: Not the Biopic a Two-time Champ Deserves
The fictionalized film, with the boxer himself as one of its executive producers, crams a lot of events into its running time, leaving its charismatic cast on the ropes.
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‘The Restless’ Review: The Painful Cycles of Mental Illness
Joachim Lafosse’s film is an intimate but flawed portrayal of the effect a man’s bipolar disorder has on his family.
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‘Freaks vs. the Reich’ Review: Band of Others
This big-hearted, blithely odd adventure pits a troupe of superpowered circus folk against a psychic Nazi pianist.