Little White Lies - 11.2019 - 12.2019

AS TOLD TO HANNAH WOODHEAD ILLUSTRATION BY LAURÈNE BOGLIO ince producing their first feature film, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, ...

Credits: We’re Going to the Zoo, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Daddy Longlegs, Good Time, Uncut Gems “I was an undergrad at Bost ...

“The thing I can’t forget is that Josh and Benny would be walking out of the S-Train to the production office, and I’d be walkin ...

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orget everything you think you know about Sin City. In ‘SuperBookie: Inside Las Vegas Sports Gambling’, author Art Manteris, who ...

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WORDS BY NICK PINKERTON ILLUSTRATION BY LAURÈNE BOGLIO es, Adam Sandler is antic and aggro and utterly committed as the diamond ...

Sandler’s specialisation in rageaholic outbursts, used to comic effect in dorm room staples Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Waterbo ...

sophisticates. (In a 2014 piece, critic Bilge Ebiri identified the unifying characteristic of the Sandler oeuvre as “The profoun ...

The recent Netflix films, as a body of work, don’t represent a radical departure for Sandler, though they do revolutionise the v ...

udd Schulberg, the author of ‘What Makes Sammy Run?’, was born into movie royalty – the son of Paramount honcho and Hollywood pi ...

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WORDS BY ADAM LEE DAVIES ILLUSTRATION BY LAURÈNE BOGLIO hen you’re hot, you’re hot. When you’re not, you’re not. It is what it i ...

When describing Bobcat Goldthwait’s stand-up act it is useful to mention that he used to open for Nirvana. As with the grunge go ...

Prop comedy. A quick-fire Dadaist cavalcade of anarchic invention or some guy who’s nailed a Monopoly board to a toilet seat in ...

Chevy Chase and Norm Macdonald: tall, urbane, good-looking, oodles of charm. Acquired tastes maybe, but undeniable comedy thorou ...

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WORDS BY CAROLINE GOLUM ILLUSTRATION BY SOPHIE MO A personal journey with Caroline Golum into Jewish movies. 037 ...

n the century-and-change since DW Griffith’s A Child of the Ghetto introduced goyishe moviegoers to the shtetl of New York’s Low ...

crime and loosening mores – made sex symbols out of shambling “sheenies” (Gentiles, I beg of you: don’t use this term!) like Ell ...