In a scenic, rainy Welsh town, with just as many sheep as people, there was a man who made himself a best friend. The man is Brian (David Earl), and the friend is Charles (Chris Hayward). Together, ...

In something of a first, The Hollywood Reporter sat down for a 1:1 with the robotic star of Focus Features' feel-good oddball Brit comedy. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Move over Pete “Maverick” ...

Production designer Hannah Purdy Foggin and head prop maker Martin Butterworth tell IndieWire about bringing verisimilitude to a world of washing machine robots and flying cuckoo clocks. There are ...

Running time/rating: 1:30, PG for crude language, mild violence and smoking By premise alone, the man/robot buddy dramedy “Brian and Charles” may remind some viewers of “Finch,” Apple TV Plus’s ...

David Earl plays opposite a robot in Brian and Charles. Pic credit: Bankside Films British comedian David Earl has had an eventful week, celebrating the Netflix release of After Life Season 3 and the ...

An isolated man builds a massive, child-like robot to be his best friend in this very British comedy about loneliness and letting go. A sweetly eccentric beardo who lives by himself in a stone cottage ...

Brian is depressed and lonely. Even in the context of his rural Welsh village, his life seems vanishingly small. Still, he has his inventions, the stuff he tinkers with, even if most things don’t ...

Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. This review of Brian and ...

Even as the low-key mockumentary “Brian and Charles” impressively scales down a sci-fi concept to fable size, it neither does much to maintain its oddness nor finds that right mix of comedy and pathos ...