Jennifer Jason Leigh

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Rating: ★★★★
Sep 10, 2001Black Comedy/Divine Intervention
One of the Coen Brothers’ strangest films – imagine a homage to a 1940s Howard Hawks film conducted on giant oversized sets like something out of Brazil with a blacker-than-black sense of humour and angels in the mix
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The Machinist (2004)

The Machinist (2004)
Rating: ★★★½
Aug 5, 2005Anorexia, Sleeplessness and Reality Blurrings
Fascinating film from Brad Anderson where Christian Bale is subject to a series of reality blurrings. What hangs over the show most of all is Bale's intensely physical performance for which he lost a third of his body weight to turn himself into an anorexic shell of a human
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Annihilation (2018)

Annihilation (2018)
Rating: ★★★½
Mar 24, 2018Mysterious Alien Zone
Alex Garland's second directorial effort after Ex Machina. Clearly influenced by Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, this features a group venturing into an alien-affected zone where Garland does a fine job of creating a sense of the otherworldly
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