This review is a special one, as it the first ever guest review. It is brought to you by filmmaker, Mark Phinney. Mark kept asking me to be a part of this website and I thought that I would finally give him a chance.
Just kidding, I read Mark’s review on Facebook and thought that it was very pretty and asked if I could put it on this site.
TV show or Movie: Movie
Where to watch: Netflix
Premise: Half a year into his solo mission on the edge of the solar system, an astronaut concerned with the state of his life back on Earth is helped by an ancient creature he discovers in the bowels of his ship.
Cast: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano
Reviews: Sandler makes the right decision yet again.
Spaceman is a tender and strange meditation on loss, memory and longing. Forget that Commander Sandler bonds beautifully and believably with Paul Dano’s alien spider. Forget that Carey Mulligan appears in fragments of time and space. This is Major Tom. The Peter Schilling version. Spaceman breaks all surreal walls down. You’re connected to the quiet pain that the “loneliest man on earth” floats along with in his aimless mission through the stars.
Life is a series of dreamscapes and fragments of something that may be there. Love. Happiness. Satisfaction. None of it is real or true. We, like Sandler, are on our own ghostly hunt for what can complete us on this journey.
Sandler delivers the sadness that we all feel. He has mastered this through several films with directors.
I think of Don Draper pitching The Carousel through his own NOSTALGIA.
The echoes of Kubrick’s 2001 floats hauntingly through the expanse of space, loss and ultimately hope. In the end, hope is all we really have.
This film, certainly one of the years best far, makes bold, wondrous discoveries on the state of mind we’re in. Confusion.
Like Major Tom, he just wants to go home. Like we all do.
Mark’s film Fat, starring Mel Rodriguez went to the TIFF and can be watched for free on Tubi and YouTube!
And Mark’s newest film, Fear of Flying, which stars Twisted Metal and Doughboys Mike Mitchell. Learn more about the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29281893/