Oct 01
Going a little bit cult this week with the fantastically mind-boggling dark comedy, Being John Malkovich, in which an office-worker cum amateur puppeteer stumbles across a small portal that leads into the brain of Hollywood actor John Malkovich, allowing the user to “be” him for fifteen minutes, before being splurted out onto the New Jersey …
Sep 24
Fans of botched crime capers, black comedy and snow will frequently rate Fargo as one of the best movies ever made. Equally among critics and casual moviegoers, it has been universally rated as the Coen brothers’ greatest achievement and one of the best films to come out of the nineties. I’m biased, but I would …
Jul 16
Charlie Kaufman’s sophomore effort was the confusing yet masterful meta-movie Adaptation, released in 2002. Nic Cage plays Kaufman himself, a troubled screenwriter whose futile attempts to adapt the book The Orchid Thief into a Hollywood movie result in him changing the screenplay so that the film is actually about the difficulties of writing the screenplay. …
May 21
No Country For Old Men contains the least actual music in a soundtrack I have ever reviewed; apparently only 16 minutes of score appear in the movie itself. This works in its favour, not because Carter Burwell is a bad composer (he’s always been brilliant), but because what makes this Texan …
Jan 09
One of the Coen brothers’ more recent screwball comedies was the incompetent spy thriller, Burn After Reading, with a staggering ensemble cast built around their regular actors, plus Brad Pitt and John Malcovich thrown in for good measure. The movie is a farcical chain of confusing events that leave just about every character in the …
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