Spaceman

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSpaceman, the latest film starring American comedy magnate Adam Sandler, has received scathing reviews from Netflix viewers.In the film, the Uncut Gems star, 57, plays Czech astronaut Jakub Procházka, who is sent on a mission to the edge of the solar system shortly after the collapse of his marriage to his wife Lenka (played by Maestro’s Carey Mulligan). But viewers have been damning…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeI’m slightly embarrassed to speak about it under this circumstance,” Paul Dano winces. “Is it gonna lead somebody to listen?” The actor might hate me for mentioning it, but he used to be in a band. Found today in the deeper recesses of Spotify, Mook released two records. They were strange, muddy psychedelic things, made back when Dano was in his early twenties and a reluctant movie…

By Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press David Bowie’s Major Tom, sitting in his tin can. Elton John’s Rocket Man, missing Earth and his wife. Matt Damon in “The Martian,” left behind to starve. Matthew McConaughey in “Interstellar,” weeping as he watches his kids age without him. Much art has been made of the infinite loneliness of space travel. And how could it not? Loneliness may be a universal human condition, but what could be lonelier than being removed from the human race entirely? And so when Adam Sandler, as moody…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAdam Sandler is lost in space with only a giant spider for company – and it’s not a comedy. New sci-fi feature Spaceman, adapted from Czech writer Jaroslav Kalfař’s 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia, very quickly turns into a bit of a dirge. The film is yet another of those films about astronauts a long way from home who have unresolved personal business back on planet Earth.Jakub…

Adam Sandler’s daughters have seemingly tried to avoid using their nepo baby status in their private lives as they have been “avoiding” talking to the actor, who recently discussed working with them in films at the premiere of his new movie Spaceman, highlighting the challenges of parental bonding.The 57-year-old comedy star was accompanied by his family as he walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of his new movie, Spaceman, held at the Egyptian Theater on Monday (February 26).Upon exchanging some…

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Here’s an existential sci-fi wearing its influences and its supposed humour really heavily, as if entering some super-gravitational force field. It is adapted by screenwriter Colby Day from the absurdist Czech novel Spaceman of Bohemia and directed by Johan Renck, who has lately worked mostly on television, notably on the Chernobyl drama series. The resulting Netflix movie is a lifeless space oddity about a commercially sponsored Czech mission to the stars, whose astronaut has to repeat the ad slogans in his radio contact…

Screenshot: NetflixAdam Sandler’s next movie for Netflix takes him to space for what at first seems like, as far as space movies go, a down-to-earth exploration of the pressures long-term extraplanetary missions can put on even the most intrepid explorers. Then the Paul Dano spider shows up, and things only get more intense from there.That spider is Hanuš, a cosmic spider from the dawn of time who senses the loneliness of Sandler’s solitary astronaut Jakub and helps him explore the beauty of the cosmos while also trying…

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Johan Renck's upcoming sci-fi film will also star Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano Once he was Cajun Man and Opera Man, now the Sandman, Adam Sandler, is the titular Spaceman in Johan Renck’s new sci-fi flick arriving on Netflix March 1. In the movie, Sandler plays Jakub, an astronaut on a research mission at the far edges of the solar system, who is suddenly struck by the fear that his already rocky marriage to Carey Mulligan’s Lenka might not survive the strain and length of his intergalactic…