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Between Lady Bird, The Big Sick, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and The Disaster Artist, Comedy Is Being Taken Seriously This Awards Season

November 30, 2017
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Yes, Lady Bird just set a new record for Rotten Tomatoes for being the best reviewed movie in the site’s history, which comes as no surprise to us for how much it really does live up to its own hype.

Yet, Lady Bird is not the only comedy movie receiving heaps of praise as well as multiple award nominations and award wins (Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards, National Board of Review).

Comedy, just like horror, is having a banner year in movie theaters.

The Disaster Artist has won at The Gotham Awards and the Hollywood Film Awards as well as gained nominations at the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Toronto International Film Festival.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has won at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Hollywood Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards and been nominated in multiple categories for both British Independent Film Awards and the Spirit Awards.

The Big Sick has won at The Gotham Awards, Hollywood Film Awards, and SXSW and is also nominated at The Spirit Awards.

Nominations have been handed out to the likes of Ingrid Goes West and Beatriz at Dinner as well. You should also not forget that Ruben Östlund’s The Square, a hilariously scathing satire of the high art world, landed the Palme d’Or at Cannes, a rare honor for something so funny.

Normally, drama dominates film awards across the table and maybe, just maybe, one comedy like In The Loop or Grand Budapest Hotel will satisfy some genre diversity at such prestigious institutions like the ones named above or The Oscars. 

In fact, we can’t even remember a year where such a plethora of comedy that is unequivocally identifiable as comedy (as opposed to The Martian or Nebraska) getting so much distinction in the film world. 

However, we’re certainly not the first to tell you that this year is anything but normal. 

Ingrid Goes West Expands to Theaters Nationwide Today

August 25, 2017
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That’s right. Ingrid Goes West isn’t just playing in major U.S. cities with hip arthouse and indie theaters. 

It’s got a full nationwide release starting today and playing at a theater near you.

So, you have as good of a chance as any to see Aubrey Plaza in one her best roles yet as a social media obsessed loner that’s a little too comfortable with stalking on the big screen.

Find showtimes for Ingrid Goes West here.

“Ingrid Goes West” Now Playing in Limited Release

August 11, 2017
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Ingrid Goes West really did take us by surprise, mostly because we didn’t know what to expect. We especially didn’t expect something that’s both hysterical and suspenseful falling in line somewhere between, as we’ve said before, What About Bob?, Nightcrawler, and Young Adult. 

We certainly can’t remember the last time we saw a psychological thriller comedy that was worth telling people about (or even really think of one off the top of our head). 

Today, it opens up in NY and LA (and will open up in theaters nationwide later this month). Please find a screening nearest to you here.

“Ingrid Goes West” Gets a Great Red Band Trailer

July 31, 2017
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Very rarely do the worlds of comedy and psychological thriller come into each other orbits. That’s probably because they’re, in many ways, polar opposites as genres.

That being said, Ingrid Goes West not only manages to be a darkly hysterical descent into madness of Aubrey Plaza’s Ingrid, but director/co-writer Matt Spicer and co-writer David Branson Smith both keep suspense the whole way through as well. Think of it as somewhere between What About Bob? and Nightcrawler and Young Adult.

We hope you can get all of that from this new, satisfyingly NSFW red band trailer. 

Look for Ingrid Goes West in limited release on August 11th, then in wide release on August 25th.

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