Jake Johnson writes, directs and stars in Self Reliance (now streaming on Hulu ... of Grouchy Smurf in the most recent Smurfs motion picture. While cooped up during covid lockdowns, Johnson ...

The king of dirtbags you can bring home to mom is expertly (self-)cast as Self Reliance’s Tommy, a down-on-his luck Angeleno who submits to a month-long “game” – as in “Squid,” “The ...

We can be the main character and win. Actor Jake Johnson’s quirky directorial debut feature “Self Reliance” takes this idea of personal narrative triumph and hugs it so tightly it starts ...

In this fleetingly amusing comedy, a lonely loser becomes the target of reality-show killers. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site ...

The challenge is how to achieve it. Luckily for us, a famous American philosopher focused on exactly that question and left us the guide to self-reliance he wrote in 1841. Read it, and you might ...