With young people increasingly fixated on social media, Youtube and short-form video, 2025 might be the year that studios panicked about the state of the film industry. But despite the palpable fear wafting from Hollywood, filmmakers churned out an impressive mix of laugh-oriented films, including rom-coms and dark, surreal comedies.

It's hard out there to be a studio comedy, stuck in a world where audiences primarily get their chuckles from blips on TikTok and memes on Reddit. Sure, the studio comedy isn't in great shape right now, but we've gotten so many great ones over the last 25 ...

Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is the latest fictional film to mine humor and pathos from life on the stand-up stage—but where does it rank among the best examples of the genre?

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley University with degrees in Journalism and Game Design with a ...

Streaming has become a great home for stand-up comedy, and Netflix's lineup in particular includes 15 of the best stand-up specials out there.

Sports dramas get Oscars. Boxing films have done particularly well at the Academy Awards — Rocky, Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, The Fighter — and other sports have also been celebrated during awards season, including baseball, pool, long-distance ...