With Charlie Kaufman’s new movie I’m Thinking of Ending Things now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Jesse Plemons and Jessie Buckley about making the movie. During the interview, they talked about what it was really like to collaborate with Kaufman, how his work allows for each viewer to have their own interpretation of the material, if they asked Kaufman to explain the story, and a lot more. If you haven’t seen the trailers, the story is based on Iain Reid’s acclaimed novel of the same name and follows an unnamed woman (Buckley) as she …
NEON has released a new trailer for the upcoming music-centric drama Wild Rose, which has critics buzzing about not only the film but the lead performance of Jessie Buckley. The Irish actress had roles in War and Peace and The Woman in White, but is probably best known to audiences for her scene-stealing work in the tremendous HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Wild Rose follows a fresh-out-of-prison mother of two who pursues her dream of becoming a country music superstar, with her eyes on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. She’s anchored by her committed mother, …
Last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, the savvy indie distributor Neon picked up a little movie called Wild Rose, about a down-on-her-luck Scottish woman who yearns to make it big as a country singer in Nashville. I attended the festival, but amid a sea of high-profile awards hopefuls from major studios, the film wasn't on my radar. Not even close. When I finally caught up with Wild Rose seven months later at CinemaCon, I had low expectations, as I'm not a big fan of country music and hadn't heard of the …
After starring in Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame and making her directorial debut with the upcoming Netflix movie Unicorn Store, it's safe to say that Brie Larson deserves a break. She has certainly earned one. And perhaps that's why she has pulled out of Charlie Kaufman's psychological thriller I'm Thinking of Ending Things. I haven't heard of any creative differences or another project that would pose a scheduling conflict. I simply imagine that after a whirlwind press tour for Captain Marvel -- one that will surely continue next month with Endgame -- the actress simply wanted to …