In the new movie, Landline, Jenny Slate and new comer Abby Quinn play sisters Dana and Ali. Dana is engaged and feeling trapped and Ali is a senior in high school feeling somehow tethered and free at ...

Filmmaker Gillian Robespierre reteams with her Obvious Child muse Jenny Slate on her sophomore directorial Landline, a divorce comedy set in New York City 1995 which “flips the narrative on its ass ...

Following its Sundance premiere, there was a great deal of buzz for Obvious Child, and judging by the fact I screened it twice in a week, I have to agree with the acclaim. Writer-director Gillian ...

Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child isn’t your typical romantic comedy. Jenny Slate stars as Donna Stern, a charmingly foul-mouthed Williamsburg stand-up, whose cheating boyfriend (Paul Briganti) ...

“Landline” will not sell first or go for the highest price at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but the unflinchingly sentimental comedy from writer-director Gillian Robespierre warmed a world ...

In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, ...

The camaraderie between Jenny Slate and director Gillian Robespierre was evident on Sunday when the pair debuted A24’s “Obvious Child” at New York’s Sunshine Landmark. The film, based on a 2009 short, ...