Director: Justin Reardon
Running Time: 94 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: March 2nd 2015
It’s not often that a movie with this much star power doesn’t get a cinema release in the UK, but Playing It Cool has gone straight to VoD, despite the presence of Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Topher Grace, Aubrey Plaza, Luke Wilson, Patrick Warbuton, Matthew Morrison, Ioan Gruffudd, Ashley Tisdale, Anthony Mackie and Phillip Baker Hall, amongst others.
So is there something wrong with it? Well, there’s nothing really bad, but its problem is that it has a lot of ambition but doesn’t quite hit any of its marks. Even so it’s a surprise it hasn’t been in cinemas.
Chris Evans plays a screenwriter who has little interest in the romantic comedy script he’s been commissioned to write, largely because he’s not a big believer in love. With every relationship he’s had, he’s ended up telling the woman he doesn’t feel the same way she does, and he’s now essentially trying to avoid the whole thing. But then he meets Michelle Monaghan, and there’s definitely a connection. [Read more…]
Previously called A Many Splintered Thing but now given the more mainstream friendly title Playing It Cool, sees Chris Evans stepping away from shields and S.H.I.E.L.Ds, and heading into quirkily romantic mode.
At the beginning of last month, Chris Evans signed up for Justin Reardon’s comedy A Many Splintered Thing, and now he’s got some company as 
Chris Evans may be gearing up to don the red, white and blue again for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which starts shooting in January, but he’s still looking to projects outside the Marvel universe, and has signed up for the ‘anti romantic-comedy’, A Many Splintered Thing.