In this middle-aged Cinderella story Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is propelled into the high life when she manoeuvres a job as an actress’s social secretary. Miss Pettigrew lands a job as Delysia Lafosse’s (Amy Adams) social secretary when she manages to save Lafosse from imminent catastrophe as Pettigrew prevents her two lovers from meeting early [...]
I got to see Tropic Thunder last Friday night (thanks Xbox Live! and Guy). It was a typically Ben Stiller film, poking fun at the over blown egos of the over-pampered film industry. Managing to deconstruct the ridiculousness of his own industry from the inside, he creates a biting satire of the industry’s egotism. In [...]
I came across this blog the other day and I’ve found it particularly fascinating. Wired are doing a feature on Charlie Kaufman (writer of Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and generally awesome guy). Anyway, they’ve decided to go all meta, Kaufman style and blog the process of making the feature. So [...]
I saw Wall-E last night. I know it’s a kids film, but I loved it. You will hear none of my usual vitriol for films today. It was heartwarming, sad, and just beautiful. You would have to be dead inside not to enjoy it. I was in tears from about half way through until the [...]