"Why Am I So Single?" is about two young writers – best friends and plainly based on Marlow and Moss – who are trying to ...

This has its own small unity and a nice little humorousness at the end; but the structure weakens, the sturdiness of tone evaporates and the humor turns into mere archness when we read it this way ...

For Matt, the idea was kids telling stories. Sam decided it should be more about the archness of the stories themselves. It gave us a chance to be even weirder and break out of the sitcom form we ...

Yet the traits I have associated with the "storybook" manner may help to explain the archness of Hawthorne's allusions, the idle reverie that clouds up his mere sketches, the sometimes coy ...

He experiences venerable cinematic forms from the inside, with an ingenuous spontaneity and an emotional responsiveness that dispel all irony and foreclose any archness. He makes classic-infused ...

But in Simon surreal language too often goes in the direction of archness. Singer, songwriter and guitarist Paul Simon, famous for his partnership with Art Garfunkel. He is pictured with his son ...

Because that kind of experience is a meditation, and when the archness is balanced with as much sincerity of musicianship and expression as you get here, it can be a shared meditation. The potentially ...

For all its archness, though, there’s no doubt this is an absorbing production that manages to bring dramatic tension to a story where everyone knows the grim ending. Pleasance Courtyard ...

Now, they are buzzing with memes, videos and messages of congratulation, but also a strain of sceptical archness. So what does a glimpse inside some of these private chat domains tell us about ...

There are many good things about the modern world of streaming, but we’ve got to say it’s still such a pleasing feeling when a buzzy film comes to streaming without making you wait for a ...

McArdle is the key, though. He’s so prodigiously good as Henry that he simply powers us through the first half’s potentially off putting archness. Spending much of the play gallivanting around ...