At the centre, or is it the outer periphery, of the intricately constructed universe in The Wheel Of Heaven is an ongoing conversation between actress Kali Russell and director Joe Badon. Badon and his co-writer Jason Kruppa have scripted a rape scene involving Russell’s character Purity which Russell would prefer to see written out of…
“Maybe just a worthless novelty, but maybe the key to the universe,” says Professor von Scheisenberg (French Stewart), some way into Richard Elfman’s Aliens, Clowns & Geeks. Scheisenberg is describing the phallic obelisk which protagonist Eddie Pine (Elfman’s son Bodhi) has just brought into his laboratory to be identified. This alien object, which uses Eddie’s…
First published by Sight & Sound, June 2015 Synopsis: New York City, present. Visiting from LA to promote his new, serious (and unappealing) historical film Uprize, comedian André Allen agrees to be interviewed by Chelsea Brown for a New York Times profile, despite having been mistreated in the past by the publication’s film critic James…