Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Animated Fable Orion and the Dark Gets the Charlie Kaufman Treatment

Whenever a writer you admire decides to tackle a story (in this case, an animated film) aimed at younger people, the fear is always that they will dumb things down […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Nicolas Cage Stars as a Man Reckoning with Unexpected Fame in Dream Scenario

Exploring the worlds of dreams and nightmares, as well as providing an insightful glimpse into the phenomenon of fame for being famous, Norwegian-born writer/director Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself) has […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Dream Scenario Filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli on Filming Dreams, Casting Nicolas Cage and That One Fart Joke

Norwegian-born writer/director Kristoffer Borgli is having a a hell of a year. Earlier in the year, his 2022 feature, Sick of Myself, finally made it stateside to great reviews, and […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things Twists Timelines, Stretches Believability and Demands Repeat Viewings

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

As he seems to excel at doing in one screenplay after another (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), as well as […]

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Events, Lit, Live Lit, Stages

Dialogs: Two Screenwriters Talk About Their New Novels—Utopia Avenue and Antkind

It was just serendipity that the Chicago Humanities Festival scheduled two screenwriters with hot new novels two weeks in a row for their livestream show. Well, serendipity and the fact […]

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