‘Why Him?’
Attention fans of James Franco’s comedic offerings to the world: you will love Why Him?. Available now on HBO Go and HBO Now, the 2016 comedy finds Franco facing off with his girlfriend’s dad, Bryan Cranston. As tech bro Laird, Franco gets to be a parkour-loving, eccentric, surprisingly sweet guy, and all the swearing and strange paintings and physical comedy the film has to offer provides plentiful chuckles. Savor mainstream Franco in this classic battle of Family Man vs. Freak Show, as he’s sure to line up a bunch of odd indie projects sooner or later, but for now we can enjoy him at his best: a shirtless, smiling, doofus.