Comedy sequels are a tricky business. ( Airplane II, anyone?) The audience expects the same laughs and gags featured in the original, but the next installment usually doesn’t land, and you’re better ...

Tonally and thematically, Pavements ( now streaming on Mubi) is the cinematic distillation of the scene in the Homerpalooza episode of The Simpsons in which one apathetic Gen X er asks another ...