John Bishop explains why Bradley Cooper's film about life is "like watching a memory"

Bradley Cooper's new film inspired by comedian John Bishop is totally unexpected

Open the article to view the coverage from Metro News

John Bishop explains why Bradley Cooper's film about life is "like watching a memory"

With his first two films as director, Bradley Cooper took on some pretty major projects.For his debut behind the camera, he helmed A Star Is Born – the latest remake of one of Hollywood's most beloved musical stories, starring alongside pop superstar Lady Gaga in a film that would go on to build a legion of devoted fans and receive a glut of awards nominations.His follow-up was no less ambitious, this time a biopic exploring the life – and marri…

John Bishop inspired Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? – and it somehow works!

Will Arnett and Laura Dern play a separated couple who journey down roads of self-discovery, in this small, well-intentioned comedy drama

Is This Thing On? review: Bradley Cooper’s John Bishop biopic is one of the season’s brightest comedies

Lady Gaga, Leonard ­Bernstein and John Bishop. An unlikely trio, indeed, but Bradley Cooper – the American comedy-actor-turned-­Oscar-nominated filmmaker – has, against all odds, built an impressive body of work around each of these singular household names.

Bradley Cooper’s marriage story

Upbeat, feel-good divorce movies are a rare thing. Kramer vs Kramer, Marriage Story, most recently the terrible re-make of The War of the Roses – all concur that divorce is a downer. Is This Thing On?, the third film directed by Bradley Cooper, in succession to A Star Is Born and Maestro, contrives to take a more optimistic view of separation. We meet Alex (Will Arnett, the gravelly voice of Bojack Horseman, in his first lead role in a feature) …

Is This Thing On? review – funny is as funny does in Bradley Cooper’s John Bishop-inspired tale

Cooper directs Will Arnett in this likable, semi-believable story about a man heading for a divorce who discovers a cathartic outlet in comedy Comic actor Will Arnett finally gets a straight dramatic role and he’s playing … a comedian. Well, a would-be comedian. But he’s not an outrageously awful…