INTERVIEW: ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Composer Jay Wadley
Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things hits Netflix today (4 Sept 2020) and brings his usual chaotic brand of existentialism to a story of a couple on a snowy roadtrip, played by Jesse Plemons and Jessie Buckley, with Toni Collette and David Thewlis in…
REVIEW: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
As the writer of Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999), Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney, 2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) and the director of Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Anomalisa (2015), I think it’s…
REVIEW: Eternal Beauty (Glasgow Film Festival 2020)
‘Don’t fight depression. Make friends with it’. The ballsy use of a hypnosis recording to relieve stress anchoring the opening credits of this Craig Roberts offering. He may have led a film called Submarine, yet Eternal Beauty is the vivid and vital tale of one…
Best of the Decade: Wonder Woman In ‘No Mans Land’
Wonder Woman, both the character and the film, had a lot riding on its shoulders when it was released in 2017. Amazingly it was the first live-action film where Wonder Woman was the lead, it was the first female-led superhero since Catwoman and Elektra in…
REVIEW: Wonder Woman (2017)
Usually I start a JumpCut review by discussing what drew me to the film and my expectations of it. However, there are two major shadows cast over this particular movie. 1) DC – believe me, I could write A LOT about previous DC films and…
REVIEW: Anomalisa (2016)
By looking at stills from ‘Anomalisa’, I was mainly astounded at the level of detail which had gone into the animation process. To me, animation like this is a little bit mind-blowing and very, very impressive; for the sheer amount of time and patience it…
