I’ve been stewing over my review of Where the Wild Things Are for a full seven days now. Mostly I’m baffled at how much I enjoyed it, and how well it was done. The book, I’m told, was one of my favorites growing up. Still, I felt no allegiance to the film, and when everyone [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Catherine Keener'
Where the Wild Things Are
November 2nd, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: Catherine Keener · Catherine O'Hara · Dave Eggers · Forest Whitaker · James Gandolfini · Lance Acord · Lauren Ambrose · Maurice · Max Records · Paul Dano · Spike Jonze · Where the Wild Things
An American Crime
March 21st, 2009 3 Comments
Remember that sinking feeling in the spring of 2005, when it was announced that Michael Bay would be directing Transformers? The world’s population of cinema buffs took one big collective sigh and gave up on the hopes of a worthy homage to one of the most beloved toys of the eighties. It’s a perfect example of how [...]
Tags: An American Crime · Bradley Whitford · Catherine Keener · Ellen Page · Irene Turner · James Franco · Tommy O'Haver
Synecdoche, New York
November 23rd, 2008 3 Comments
Synecdoche, New York (pronounced see-neck-dah-key) is the latest work from visionary writer and Oscar-winner Charlie Kaufman, who created Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, among others. While Kaufman has an impressive list of writing credits to his name, this is his first effort as a director. The result isn’t disappointing, [...]
Tags: Catherine Keener · Charlie Kaufman · Emily Watson · Hope Davis · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Michelle Williams · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Samantha Morton · Synecdoche New York
Hamlet 2
September 2nd, 2008 5 Comments
Hamlet 2 is hilarious. I haven’t laughed so hard in the theater since…well Pineapple Express or Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That doesn’t mean Hamlet 2 isn’t special, it just means this is an oddly funny summer, with a larger than average number of well polished comedies. Hamlet comes to us from, like so many other bitchin’ [...]
Tags: Amy Poehler · Andrew Fleming · Catherine Keener · David Arquette · Elizabeth Shue · Hamlet 2 · Steve Coogan
Being John Malkovich
August 19th, 2008 4 Comments
I’m ashamed that it’s taken me so long to see this fantastic film, directed by Spike Jonze. I’m not sure what my hesitancy was in watching it, except for some bad memories of John Malkovich in that three musketeers movie from when I was, like, ten. Anyway, this movie blew me away. Spike Jonze started [...]
Tags: Being John Malkovich · Cameron Diaz · Catherine Keener · Charlie Kaufman · John Cusack · John Malkovich · Spike Jonze
