Jesse Andrews’ hilarious Me and Earl and the Dying Girl hits theaters tonight, in an adaptation that’s fabulously faithful to its source material’s geeky rebel spirit. Both follow aspiring filmmaker and social dilettante Greg Gaines (played by Thomas Mann), who eschews real friendship in favor of floating between cliques, trying to avoid notice or entanglements. […]

Dietrich and Divine. Romero and the Rat Pack. Cannibals and urban cowboys. The Criterion Collection, with its emphasis on “important” classic and contemporary films, might suggest it is a purveyor of stuffy art-house movies and old foreign films, but its definition of importance has never been nearly that limited. Its lineup of prestige collector’s editions […]