It’s weird when you’re having too much fun and the cops get called,” Hess said in a recent interview with Entertainment ...

As it turns out, quite a bit. With llamas, tater tots, and Idaho setting and a washed-up high school legend at its heart, “A ...

The director seems to carry the spirit of the indie film with him — even as he takes on a blockbuster. The offbeat humor and overall character of "Napoleon Dynamite" that won Sundance over 21 years ...

A Minecraft Movie” is a perfectly calibrated light entertainment. At certain points, it reminded me of that mid’-80s run of ...

Jared Hess, the quirky mind behind “Napoleon Dynamite” and a proud son of Utah’s indie film scene, is trading tots for ...

Even a child is unlikely to be entertained by the film’s stream of Minecraft in-jokes—but fans of the director Jared Hess may ...

Utah filmmaker Jared Hess, who directed "Napoleon Dynamite," takes on his first big-budget special effects movie with "A ...

Minecraft' star Jack Black delivers a personal message to moviegoers advising against joining in the viral, messy, ...

Hess, the film-maker behind the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, on his love of Minecraft, working with Jack Black and making a ...

Jared Hess, the director of "Napoleon Dynamite," brings his indie-camp absurdist cred to this adaptation of the blockbuster ...