Director Mike Mills’ wonderful new movie “C’mon C’mon,” which opens Wednesday in Bay Area theaters, draws inspiration mainly from his own life, an approach he also used on his previous films, ...

C'Mon C'Mon is one of those rare movies where kids are actually presented as complex human beings with thoughts, and the trials of parenting are approached with a stark honesty that leads to one of ...

Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a radio journalist. He’s traveling around the country interviewing youth to understand their lives, what makes them happy, and how they perceive America’s future. Johnny’s ...

C’mon C’mon couldn’t be more different than Joaquin Phoenix’s last movie, Joker. For one thing, there’s no scene where he dances to “Rock and Roll Part 2” or shoots Robert De Niro in the head… ...

Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker performance (for portraying the deeply disturbed Arthur Fleck) won him an Oscar, but that obviously wasn’t his first tango with the Academy Awards. He scored nominations for ...

C’mon C’mon – now on VOD – is the new drama by Mike Mills, who writes and directs a lovely, thoughtful, melancholy, insightful, hopeful film every five or six years. Joaquin Phoenix stars, his first ...

Mills and Hoffmann discuss what they learned from young actor Woody Norman and how Mills convinced Phoenix to play the main character. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor Mike Mills’ black-and-white ...

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So says Johnny, a patient, constantly curious radio journalist portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix in a gratifyingly mellow, unmannered turn in “C’mon C’mon.” As the film opens, Johnny is in Detroit ...

A24 released a trailer for “C’mon C’mon,” which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and will open in theaters later this year. Helmed by Mike Mills, the Oscar-winning director behind “20th ...

Maybe the simplest way to describe Mike Mills’s new film C’mon C’mon is as an adventure in babysitting. Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a radio producer who’s undertaken an ambitious project to travel the ...

We’re not crying, you’re crying … and so is Joaquin Phoenix in his new film “C’Mon C’mon,” which sees him holding back tears as he reads an unexpectedly poignant children’s book to his nephew. “C’Mon ...