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The home entertainment release of The Big Sick features all - new bonus content including two behind - the - scenes featurettes, audio commentary with cowriters Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, producer Barry Mendel, and director Michael Showalter, the 2017 SXSW panel, deleted scenes, jokes that didn't quite make the big screen, and bonus footage from The Big Sick Comedy Tour featuring hilarious stand - up performances, Q&A s, and backstage moments.

The thriller is based on «Virus,» a Dark Horse comic book series created by Chuck Pfarrer, and it's incompetently scripted by cowriters Pfarrer and Dennis Feldman.

You'll note that one of the OASIS cofounders is played by Simon Pegg, king of the retro geeks, who turns up to give the whole thing his solemn benediction, as befits the star and cowriter of Hot Fuzz and other odes to»80s pop.

The first film that director Jules Dassin made in the U.S. after two decades of blacklisting and exile, this uncompromising vision was also a labor of love for cowriter, costar, and coproducer Ruby Dee, whom Jenkins discusses as the film's auteur in a new introduction.

Director and cowriter Christopher McQuarrie serves up a dazzling array of stunts, including an extended motorcycle chase and a bit where Ethan boards a moving plane.

Coogler and cowriter Joe Robert Cole's approach is refreshing, contemporary, and resonant for the way they avoid long exposés on Black diasporic relationships, instead dramatizing the after - effect and affects of the atomization of the Black diaspora: the entanglement of shame and envy; the feelings of abandonment; and the aggrieved sense of entitlement, rage, and incomprehension that's settled and rendered dialogue tortuous, if not completely impossible.

Waititi is certainly a critical darling at the moment, lending his involvement as cowriter for Disney's Moana and director for the upcoming Marvel release, Thor: Ragnarok, a reason to be cautiously optimistic that it won't be an joyless, assembly - line effort.

«Joy was the last emotion to be cast,» says director - cowriter Pete Docter, «and it was the most difficult...

One gimmick wasn't enough for director - cowriter Arie Posin, who continually...

SANTA MONICA, CA (July 24, 2017)-- Based on the real - life love story between star and cowriter Kumail Nanjiani («Silicon Valley,» Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates) and his wife, The Big Sick arrives on Digital HD September 5 and on Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand September 19 from Lionsgate.

Cooper will also write the script for Bernstein - as the project is currently titled - based on an earlier draft by Spotlight cowriter Josh Singer (who also worked on Spielberg's own true story journalism drama, The Post).

Director and cowriter David Koepp has infused Ghost Town with a bright and vibrant sense of style that certainly suits the material, although it's hard to deny that the pace is occasionally a little too relaxed for its own good.

But arguably worse were reviews that Wain's cowriter Michael Showalter describes to Time Out New York as «hostile.»

Director - cowriter Koepp fills this film with so many whizzy visual flourishes that we might not notice that the plot itself is utterly ridiculous.

Rees and cowriter Virgil Williams co-opt the novel's device of having six characters — three from each family — narrate their stories.

Ultimately, good intentions aside, the only point that You Don't Mess With the Zohan really proves is Newton's Law of Gravity; cowriter Judd Apatow has been THE dominant voice in American film comedy for the last three years (and I'm even counting the underrated Drillbit Taylor), but this movie proves that even HE had to come down some time!

Were Joseph and cowriter Meaghan Oppenheimer to connect the dishonest real estate work of Bernthal (basically redoing the goon he played in The Wolf of Wall Street) and Cole's drive to make art instead, the movie would be up to something dangerous.

Director - cowriter Sachs takes an unusually intimate look at a 10 - year relationship in this beautifully shot and performed New York drama.

Director and cowriter Joshua Marston gives away some of the mystery intentionally at the start of Complete Unknown.

Director - cowriter Nathan Adloff displays real sensitivity toward the central characters, yet he hasn't crafted a story in which his observations might carry any weight.

This is due not only to the fine work by Chilean director - cowriter Sebastián Lelio, working in English for the first time, but also to unusually delicate acting by a superior cast.

In this absurdist, black - comic modern fable, which Yorgos dreamed up with cowriter Efthymis Filippou, Ariane does a star turn in a supporting role as the chambermaid in a hotel where people arrested for being single are taken and given forty - five days to find a mate from among the other «guests.»

The writer - director Zal Batmanglij and star - cowriter Brit Marling (Arbitrage), join forces again after their indie breakthrough, The Sound of My Voice, with another provocative but deeply flawed thriller that delves into the anarchist movement in the United States with The East.

Highlights of the commentary include production anecdotes from director John Carpenter and producer - cowriter Debra Hill, and star Jamie Lee Curtis assertion that she is not a great thinker (and that such people usually have bad breath).

There's a terrific story inside this well - made but bloated movie, as if director - cowriter Crowe simply couldn't figure out which elements he most cared about, so he included everything.

Director and cowriter Lawrence Kasdan gave us The Empire Strikes Back!

Understated and deeply unsettling, this is a remarkable low - budget feature debut for director - cowriter Wheatley.Bill (Robert...

PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, excerpts from Algeria's National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef's original account of his arrest, excerpts from the film's screenplay, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, and biographical sketches of key figures in the French - Algerian War

Director - cowriter Megan Griffiths refuses to sensationalise the tabloid aspects of this harrowing true story about human trafficking within the USA.

But as he and cowriter Gonzalo Maza started brainstorming ideas, another thought occurred to Lelio: «What if this happened to a transgender woman?»

In the ingenious narrative structure devised by Baker and cowriter Chris Bergoch, Halley's struggles are the subtext to Moonee's rhapsodic explorations, until the moment when things fall apart.

In the comic book, he's a walk - on, the sad - sack victim of the girls» personal - ads prank, but Zwigoff, with cowriter Clowes's assistance and blessing, expanded Seymour's passing, passive role to a pivotal degree — very much along the lines of Zwigoff's documentary portrait of his friend R. Crumb, with a whole panoply of asocial misanthropy introduced, along with blues connoisseurship, record collecting, and cartooning.

A corrupt Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by the film's cowriter Konichi Nomura) solves both problems with one fell swoop by exiling all pooches to the derelict Trash Island.

Deadpool 2 sees him plunged into a deep depression almost from the very start, and the way that Reynolds and cowriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Life) have fashioned the character to date means that he doesn't really have the capacity for drama.

Sony is naturally moving forward full speed ahead with a third Jumanji installment, with Welcome to the Jungle cowriters Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg and director Jake Kasdan all returning.

I also saw Starting Out in the Evening — adapted from Brian Morton's novel by Wagner and cowriter Fred Parnes — in mid-July.

I hasten to add that I prefer it to Boys Don't Cry (though director and cowriter Kimberly Peirce is clearly a talented newcomer).

Indeed, so dedicated to the story is director and cowriter Peter Jackson that he had to invent characters, insert favorites from the Lord of the Rings trilogy not present in the source material, and generally engorge the proceedings with all manner of extras.

Wheatley swaps out Tarantino's cool suits for disco lapels, and lets cowriter Amy Jump give the men zingers that clang like cheap pots.

But director and cowriter Sean Baker's sixth feature turns out to be a dazzling mosaic, alert to the ebb and flow of human resilience in the face of everyday crises.

The fingerprints of executive producer Spike Lee are all over cowriter - director Julius Onah's middling feature - film debut about an impoverished Manhattan bartender / aspiring disc jockey, August (Columbus Short), who gets unwittingly involved in some criminal shenanigans.

Maybe it's the Carrie Bradshaw voice - over narration, or that Julia Roberts movie - star glow, or the fact that director and cowriter Ryan Murphy opted to skirt the book's darker terrains.

In his feature debut, director and cowriter Sam Kretchmar explores the far - reaching tentacles of grief and their many manifestations in the music - inflected drama «Keep in Touch.»

Black Panther cowriter / director Ryan Coogler has already shown he's capable of retaining his auteur sensibilities while working on a franchise movie, with his Oscar - nominated Rocky sequel / spinoff Creed.

We recently got a chance to interview the Green Lantern cast and crew, including stars Ryan Reynolds (Hal Jordan), Blake Lively (Carol Ferris), Mark Strong (Sinestro), and Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond) alongside director Martin Campbell, producer Donald De Line, and cowriter Greg Berlanti.

Only a few short hours before the 88th annual Academy Awards were due to begin, Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo and «Spotlight» cowriters Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer took part in a protest against sexual abuse within the church in downtown Los Angeles.

Director - cowriter Leigh Janiak's 2014 sci - fi thriller Honeymoon takes a familiar premise — a newlywed husband wonders how well he knows the woman he just married — and turns it into the stuff of nightmares.