Oh Comely

RACHEL PARRIS / OH COMELY

When they can’t think of anything else to say, adults tend to ask children what they’d like to do when they grow up. Children will

There’s a moment early in our conversation—I haven’t even ordered a cup of tea yet—where Amanda Foster tells me that she likes hanging from the

It’s odd when you think about it. Once a year, like something from a nature documentary, nearly every comedy performer in Britain moves

From its electrifying opening sequence onward, in which two teams of teenage girls face off in an American football match, every moment of

A troika of street performers stand like bored statues by the roadside. Across from their gazeless vigil, Thomas and Simone meet for the

The idiom ‘like herding cats’ could have been invented to describe the process of interviewing Ana Lily Amirpour. Even though our conversation took

“You can’t always be Hamlet; sometimes you have to play a talking refrigerator.” Alfred Molina graduated from drama school 39 years ago, but

“When you’re a kid no one fucking expects you to do anything. Nobody relies on you for anything. Whereas when I was nine,

The film is over, or near enough. The end credits song has started, the screen is fading to white. Jim Carrey and Kate

Noah Taylor is fishing in his coat pocket again. He doesn’t say anything, of course—he’s nothing if not unfailingly polite—but it’s clear that