The beauty of the Duplass brothers (The Puffy Chair) is that, on the surface, their movies seem as though the filmmakers are stumbling around, extemporizing and being loose and lazy, just like the ...

Put a brown paper bag over someone’s head and you’ve got comedy (The Unknown Comic) or tragedy (a New Orleans Saints fan) or, in the case of the Duplass brothers’ enjoyable hybrid “Baghead,” a potent ...

‘Baghead’ gets a little meta right from the start; after our formal introduction to it by our festival announcer and the film’s directors last night, the movie itself began with the same scene. The ...

A guy with a bag on his head can play out a couple of ways. The Unknown Comic went for laughs. Recent films such as “The Orphanage” and “The Strangers” go for straight scares. And then there’s the new ...

The thing about the movies that make up the loosely grouped movement known as mumblecore is that it only looks easy, like certain works by Picasso, Miles Davis or E.E. Cummings. This new wave of ...

What is with this week and new trailers for all of my Sundance favorites?! First we had The Wackness, then my fave of the fest, The Escapist, and now we've got the trailer for Baghead! The film is a ...

Follow the movie scene in this town long enough and you become aware that there is such a thing as "a Portland movie" -- not a film that's made here but rather one that is so beloved by local ...

Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and ...

It would be best to simply recommend “Baghead” without any description so its surprises could remain intact. Nevertheless …. The characters are struggling actors with relationship complications who ...

A guy with a bag on his head can play out a couple of ways. The Unknown Comic went for laughs. Recent films such as “The Orphanage” and “The Strangers” go for straight scares. And then there’s the new ...