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A lesbian on the rebound falls for both a guy and a gal in this rom-com with roots in old Hollywood screwball comedies.

Director Showalter (Comedy Central's Stella) misses a terrific opportunity to pull back the curtain on "the other guy" – the Baxter is the lead man's second fiddle in your standard romantic comedy – and ends up making a pretty good case for why the sad sack never gets the girl.

Judging resigning City Manager Jesus Garza's performance in a difficult job will take some time; XLent's recent cover controversy brings back memories and reminds us how cool talk radio is; screwball comedies were the funniest movies ever, and the Austin Film Society is showing eight of them in the next two months.

Love is a battlefield in the comedies of remarriage

The nominees for science fiction's best novel of 2013 find a new guard challenging the old

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.

Despite the title of this sugar-coated fluffbomb of an urban romantic comedy, precious few rules are broken, cinematically speaking, during its quick, painless 90 minutes.

Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.

Can I Get a Witness?

The essential Jimmy Stewart Christmas movie (no, not that one)

Eggheads pays fond tribute to the cinematic screwball comedies of the 1930s, and though the specific style of those comedies was old decades before the actors in Tongue and Groove Theatre's production were born, they breezed through it, cracking wise and slinging slang, as nimbly as Busby Berkeley chorines tapping down 42nd Street.

While the rest of the nation was rallying around the flag, screenwriter and director Sturges was spitting out a series of rapid-fire Hollywood comedies that showed untruth, injustice, inequality, corruption, chicanery, and illicit sex running rampant across this land from sea to shining sea.

New AFS series considers Frank Capra's pre-World War II films

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

Frank Tashlin in print and onscreen

Christmas in July, Sullivan's Travels (1942), The Palm Beach Story

Testifying About Movies

Noir, cowboys ... and Ted Lasso?

Its peek behind the scenes of filming Gone With the Wind make this novel a delectable summer treat

The Austin Film Society unlocks The Sepia Screen with its new series on "race" movies

Louis Black and Leonard Maltin reminisce on 50 years of moviegoing

Comfort and a clear-eyed, ever-witty lens on the lovelorn

Aesthetically, we have gone insane and dull