After a particularly trying evening, Alex puts Tess on the train to the couple’s huge suburban home outside New York City and wanders by a small bar on the way to his own rented city apartment. It ...

Arnett plays a man who struggles to be a stand-up comic while his marriage collapses in this engaging comedy-drama.

If you’re looking for some laughs, along with a few tears, this holiday season, then you should take your family to go see Is This Thing On?, when it opens in movie theaters this weekend. Directed by ...

News Reel Talk hosts Tannock Blair and Julia Broberg discuss the latest dramedy film from Bradley Cooper, "Is This Thing On?" ...

"Is This Thing On?" star Will Arnett shares the inspiration behind the Searchlight Pictures comedy. "A mutual friend said, 'Hey, do you know John Bishop?' and he told the story of a guy who is going ...

Laura Dern’s scowl is one of the great wonders of American movies. Her mouth flattens into a blade, her eyes constrict into lasers, and you tense up instinctively, as if you might get caught in the ...

A man walks into a bar. His name is Alex Novak, and he’s not doing so hot. He’s got some sort of job in finance, though we never see him at work. His personal life, however, is a mess. His wife, Tess, ...

Early in Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Thing On?” the writer/director/actor performs an epic pratfall. His character Balls (yes, Balls), enters the film by face-planting with a carton of oat milk during a ...

A pair of mini-toothbrushes. A set of kids’ socks, fresh from the dryer. It’s often the tiniest things in the debris field of a failed relationship that trigger the most pain. Bradley Cooper clearly ...