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Dave Franco branches out into staycation horror in “The Rental”

Dave Franco kicks off his directorial career with an atmospheric if aimless vacation-thriller co-written by Joe Swanberg.NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch While his older brother James has leveraged his own acting career into a string of ambitious, low-budget directorial efforts (Faulkner adaptations, The Disaster Artist) his little brother Dave Franco had yet to follow in ... Dave Franco branches out into staycation horror in “The Rental”

Scrabble hands and scrambled dads abound in “Sometimes Always Never”

Frank Cottrell Boyce’s directorial debut is an unfocused mix of family estrangement and Andersonian kitsch.NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch Not to be confused with Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Sometimes Always Never is a British mystery film that on its face is about Peter, (Bill Nighy) a father searching for one of his two ... Scrabble hands and scrambled dads abound in “Sometimes Always Never”