Antkind – Charlie Kaufman
Self-absorbed film critic B. Rosenberger Rosenberg stumbles on what may be the greatest cinematic acheivement of all time in the apartment of an eldery African American gentleman. But the work […]
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Blog: 4 shared universes we’d love to see…
…and 5 we wouldn’t With wacky Shyamalan mashup Glass about to break into cinemas, which other directors could make a great shared universe movie out of their existing films? Ones […]
Downsizing
Matt “but what about the men who aren’t sexual predators” Damon shrinks in Downsizing, conspicuously absent from an awards season that’s already honoured The Greatest Showman for one of its songs. […]
Mary and Max
Mary (Toni Collette) is an 8-year-old living in Melbourne; Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a 44-year-old New Yorker. The two become unlikely pen pals in this Australian animation. Aardman meets […]
Seconds
Seconds is a 1966 sci-fi about a company that offers unhappy individuals the chance to be “reborn” as a different person. Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is such a man: an unfulfilled, middle-aged banker, […]
Anomalisa
This is the story of Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis), a middle aged business guru travelling to speak at a conference. But he feels disconnected from the world – […]
Synecdoche, New York
A struggling New York playwright, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is given a massive grant which he uses to create the most elaborate play ever imagined, incorporating his own life, and […]
Charlie Kaufman: Human Nature and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
My love of Adaptation and Being John Malkovich is well documented on this blog, so naturally I expanded my viewing further into the world of Charlie Kaufman, the screen writer […]
Being John Malkovich
How to explain Being John Malkovich? Well, basically an out of work puppeteer called Craig (John Cusack) gets a job in an office with a 5ft ceiling. When at work […]
