“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 ...

Owen Kline's darkly hilarious directorial debut "Funny Pages" is a coming-of-age tale that finds the sublime in the grotesque, and the profound in an absurd search for meaning in the basement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Owen Kline’s Funny Pages is the kind of film you wish you’d seen as a teenager. It will also make you glad those days are behind you. The movie is an excruciating look at adolescent hubris that’s both ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...