Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Antkind’ Is A Portrait Of The Artist As A Ridiculous Man [Review]

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Syfy;s TZGZ weekly late-night animation block has given a straight-to-series order to The Summoner, from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios and writer, actor and The New Yorker cartoonist Charlie Hankin.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersGreenlit for 10 three-minute episodes to premiere next year, The Summoner is a 2D animated series based on the short film from Hankin about Rory and his challenging roommate.

Charlie Kaufman is unlike any other creative force in the business. One only needs to look at his resume and you’ll see, both as a writer as well as a director, that he’s a singular talent.

Charlie Kaufman’s peculiarly inviting psychodrama “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” feels so enclosed that you could almost swear it was set inside a snow globe. With one gentle shake, gaudy conversations on vast existential notions shower its cozy, wintery mood one minute, only to somehow thin out and ephemerally disappear the next before you could luxuriate in their gloomy mystery.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” the new movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, opens with an extended road-trip sequence in which a young woman (Jessie Buckley) — she’s identified in the credits simply as the Young Woman — drives through a country snowstorm with Jake (Jesse Plemons), her boyfriend of six weeks, to meet his parents at their Oklahoma farmhouse.

Charlie Kaufman’s peculiarly inviting psychodrama “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” feels so enclosed that you could almost swear it was set inside a snow globe. With one gentle shake, gaudy conversations on vast existential notions shower its cozy, wintery mood one minute, only to somehow thin out and ephemerally disappear the next before you could luxuriate in their gloomy mystery.

We are mere days away from the release of Charlie Kaufman’s next feature film, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.” And while many are hoping the first live-action film from the director in more than a decade will lead to a busier schedule for the filmmaker in the future, Kaufman isn’t so sure that will be the case.

Charlie Kaufman knows he has a reputation for being, well, a bit out there. Maybe it comes from having such a wildly original, meta style, cooking up movies where people step into the mind of John Malkovich or figure out a way to erase a failed romance from their memory.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe 1999 Drew Barrymore romcom “Never Been Kissed” is referenced multiple times in “Words on Bathroom Walls,” with the older film cast in a rosy Proustian glow that may come as a jolt to any viewers who remember the 20th century.

Charlie Woods is following in his father, Tiger Woods‘ footsteps!

straight to your inboxYoung Manchester City right-back Pedro Porro has secured a two-year loan move to Portugal with Sporting.The Spanish Under-21 international will spend the next two seasons with the Primeira Liga side who announced the news on their website on Saturday.

Featherhood in which everything starts to unlock.The bizarre gift from Heathcote Williams, the writer and anarchist, threatens to ignite the “residual flame” of an anger that caused a 21-year old Gilmour to scale the real monument during a protest over tuition fees in 2010.

Before recently, it had been five years since we’ve seen any major projects from filmmaker Charlie Kaufman. Now, as we approach the tail end of 2020, we not only have a brand-new novel, “Antkind,” from the writer, but we’re bracing ourselves for the release of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” which is set to hit Netflix this fall.