For decades now, indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener (“Friends With Money,” “Lovely And Amazing,” “Please Give”) has been delivering sharply observed, bitingly hilarious, empathic, complex comedies about the human condition, family, and life’s ordinary struggles. Often compared to Albert Brooks, Woody Allen, and Walt Stillman, filmmakers of somewhat similar urbane comedies, Holofcener’s always had a tenderness and humanity that maybe seemed a little too far out of reach of those dudes, and yet, never dulling her comedic blade.

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“In the summer of 2002, a plague of unknown origin destroyed every last sperm, fetus, and fully developed mammal with a Y chromosome—with the apparent exception of one young man and his pet, a male Capuchin monkey.” So reads the epitaph at the end of “Y: The Last Man’s” first issue.

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Walk through your local comic book store in a post-Avengers world and point to an acclaimed series on the shelves; odds are it’s already been optioned for the IP frontlines of our streaming wars.

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When I was young(er), my Boston-based family would occasionally shlep out to Connecticut to visit my great-grandmother in her old age home. These excursions were annoying and generally unremarkable, but I do have one very specific memory of those trips: watching whatever soap opera happened to be playing on the big TV in the old folks’ communal dining center.

My parents are Ultra-Orthodox Jews who very rarely allowed my siblings and I to watch movies or TV of any sort, so whenever an opportunity would arise to take in a few minutes of precious #content, I would jump at the chance — no matter what it was.

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Not to fear, this isn’t a remake of the classic by Andrei Tarkovsky. Instead, this “Nostalgia” comes from another uh, auteur, filmmaker Mark Pellington, who has directed “Henry Poole Is Here” and “I Melt With You.” However, the most interesting thing about this project is that the script is co-written by Alex Ross Perry (“Listen Up Philip,” “Queen Of Earth,” “Golden Exits“) who is clearly exercising some much more heartwarming muscles, delivering something quite different from his usually acidic pen.

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It’s a hungover LA afternoon for Josie (Alia Shawkat), who spent the night moshing off her eyeliner at a punk show, when she receives the call no one ever wants to get. Detectives. A motel. Her phone number. The body’s distinguishing characteristics. With those few words, Josie’s scrappy, dreamy little life crumbles and melts away. Her boyfriend Michael (Rhys Wakefield) has killed himself in a cheap motel in the desert.

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Watch: Trailer For Indie Rom-Com ‘Growing Up & Other Lies’ With Adam Brody, Wyatt Cenac & Amber Tamblyn

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Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' Reportedly Shooting In November With Cast Of Live Read Starring

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Something Will 'Haunt' Jacki Weaver, 'Non-Stop' Flight Gets Filled & More

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