With the new sequel, Another Simple Favor, now streaming on Amazon Prime, let’s retrace what happened between Stephanie and ...

Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor (2018) strikes a perfect balance between labyrinthine potboiler and sly comedy of domestic (and erotic) manners ... A wickedly fun example of the rare mommy noir ...

He discovered politics at the age of 12, when General Manuel Odría overthrew a democratic government in Peru headed by a ...

His fifth-century-B.C. account of Egypt arguably invented the form, and it even included the obligatory section on public rest rooms: “[The Egyptians] established for themselves manners and ...

When it debuted in 1977, Leigh’s comedy of manners about dissatisfied and drunk ... “I can’t do anything quietly,” she says. “For example, I put something on my Instagram about ...

Even the prettiest films have an ugly side and it turns out this love story is no different, featuring fakery which clearly ...

His manners were impeccable ... such as “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”, a hilarious farce, or the black comedy of “The Bad Girl”, a veiled satire on what he saw as the rape of Peru ...

She had manners, style, restraint — we were all chasing various identities, and hers was totally formed.” Ms. Dunham cast her as an extra in “Tiny Furniture,” the 2010 indie comedy that ...

Williams shoots for neither raucous laughs nor laboured satire, but a gentle comedy of manners, interwoven with ... the expense of woodwind detail (for example, in the first movement).