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I don't think that Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder are space aliens... but they do make movies that feel like they were written by space aliens.
Pumpkin is a 2002 satirical comedy fever dream about Carolyn (Christina Ricci), a bright but severely sheltered college student who experiences an existential crisis when she meets a disabled person and falls in love with him. If you check this movie out and hate it because it feels horribly inappropriate to you... I…
Cruella is a movie of excess, so here I present my review of excess. This movie unexpectedly left my mind reeling, so it took me a few days to get this all sorted out in my noodle. I know Cruella is a very smart film… Writing this is partly an exercise in trying to figure out if the movie is brilliant. Dana Fox and Tony McNamara’s screenplay dabbles so much in caricature and leans into self-awareness. There’s a lot under…
A future of limitless possibilities...
A stated emphasis on conserving water and resources...
And they still raise animal livestock?
The future is (not) wild
My first Audrey Hepburn film, and I think I get the allure! Her take on Holly is something like a proto-Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but she hovers on the fringe of more depth. She's unpredictable, whimsical, almost too ephemeral to believe in, but the film is also framed more around her, not the man. She may be a manic, pixie-like girl from your dreams, sure, but she's also a lost soul and more the main character than the photogenic but…
Every Body highlights an important and underdiscussed subject: the hundreds of thousands of people who are intersex. The documentary is at its strongest when the focus is on the personal lives of three people with very different life experiences, family dynamics, and personal identities, all joining together to advocate for intersex people to have a choice about their bodies and who they are. I also think this movie does a good job showing the decades of awful treatment of intersex…
Pumpkin is a 2002 romantic comedy film written and directed by Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder.
After Pumpkin, as far as I can tell, Abrams and Broder didn't write or direct anything else for about 16 years.
Then they made Spivak.
I would love to know the story behind Abrams and Broder, Pumpkin and Spivak, their writing and their directing. I'd love to know what they did for those 16 years in-between films and what brought them back to…
