Dive into Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze's dive into the mind of John Malkovich.

This week on The Collider Podcast we're joined by Associate Editor Greg Smith to talk about Being John Malkovich. We kick things off talking about Greg's article about the essential films of director Billy Wilder before moving into a discussion about what Being John Malkovich is all about, how it relates to the larger filmographies of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the skill and craft of John Malkovich's performance, and much more. We then finish up with Recently Watched. Click on the respective link to find us on iTunes. If you like the show, please …

Blooper reels are good and fun! It's fun to watch funny people boink up their jobs, do goofy bits with each other, heighten a moment past the point of usable absurdity, and make each other laugh! I like blooper reels, and I like the blooper reel for Netflix's Space Force! BLOOPER REELS!!! Ahem. Anyway. It's especially satisfying to watch this reel because, in addition to comedy superstars like Steve Carell, Ben Schwartz, Tawny Newsome, and Jimmy O. Yang delivering what you might typically expect from a "comedy cast blooper reel," you also have wild card John Malkovich …

One of the best aspects of Netflix's new comedy Space Force is for certain the performance of John Malkovich, who brings a delightful gravitas to the silly antics surrounding the American government's efforts to "put boots on the Moon (again)." The role of Dr. Adrian Mallory, General Naird's (Steve Carell) partner/sometimes nemesis, was written with Malkovich in mind, because as Space Force co-creator Greg Daniels told our own Adam Chitwood, "Netflix announced the show before we had a script, which was a little bit nerve-racking. But the thing about it was that John Malkovich’…

Descending from the heavens in 2016, The Young Pope was one of the most singularly strange things to hit TV over the last decade. When marketing for Paolo Sorrentino's Vatican-set drama first plastered the sinfully attractive Jude Law front-and-center, the internet drove straight down the "hot Pope who fucks" route. But in Law's Pope Pius XIII, Sorrentino delivered the unexpected, a Pope that aggressively did not fuck, but instead plunged the Catholic Church into an age of extreme devotion, idolatry, and conservatism. It was also, as glimpsed through Sorrentino's auteristic lense, very weird. Pius …

Oh, what could have been...

There's approximately zero things wrong with HBO's latest teaser trailer for The New Pope starring John Malkovich and Jude Law. A follow-up season to The Young Pope from the mind of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, The New Pope promises just as lots of intrigue, iffy definitions of and adherence to the word of God, and so much flashiness from the Vatican's number one resident, the Pope. [caption id="attachment_845561" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via HBO[/caption] This time around, the Pope will be played by Malkovich — and he's something of a wild card. In …