THE BIG COMEBACK

TV ROMCOMS ARE DOMINATING – THINK NETFLIX’S ‘MASTER OF NONE’ AND CHANNEL 4’S ‘CATASTROPHE’ –

BUT NOW THEY’RE HITTING THE BIG SCREEN ONCE AGAIN. RELEASED IN CINEMAS ON 28 JULY, ‘THE BIG SICK’ IS PRODUCED BY COMEDY KING JUDD APATOW AND CO-WRITTEN BY ITS STAR KUMAIL NANJIANI (‘SILICON VALLEY’). IT’S THE REAL-LIFE STORY OF KUMAIL, A PAKISTANI-BORN COMEDIAN, AND HIS NOW-WIFE AND FELLOW SCRIPTWRITER EMILY V. GORDON (ZOE KAZAN). FUNNY AND TIMELY, IT MAY JUST WAKE UP THIS SLUMBERING CINEMATIC GENRE.