James Franco (who also directed the film) stars as Tommy, a profoundly strange man with an Eastern Bloc accent and the looks of a Cro-Magnon vampire — Franco’s facial prosthetics are eerily good. We ...

James Franco plays eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist. Franco says Wiseau "looks sort of like a mix between a vampire and a pirate and Michael Jackson. ... He has long black hair ...

The most unexpectedly poignant scene of 2017 comes near the end of “The Disaster Artist,” an uproarious and genuinely insightful creation. It is the premiere night for “The Room,” a film written, ...

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process,” E.B. White once wrote. His words apply to The Room, an inept drama from writer-director-producer-star Tommy Wiseau that found ...

Greg Sestero (Dave Franco) wants to be an actor, but he has a lot of work to do. As he performs a scene from “Waiting for Godot” in acting class, his face suggests not existential angst but sheer ...

James Franco is the right guy to make a movie about one of the worst movies ever made. Not that I'm saying Franco's long and impressive and wildly varied career path is pockmarked with his own lousy ...

What makes a bad movie these days? The Room is often considered one of the worst movies ever made. But since its release in ...

If you haven’t heard of “The Room,” you should acquaint yourself with it before you see “The Disaster Artist.” In fact, you probably should see “The Room” before you see the newer film. Here’s the ...

Our critics discuss the Netflix original documentary “Voyeur,” about a journalist who reports on a motel owner who allegedly secretly spied on his guests; “Wonder Wheel,” from director Woody Allen; ...