New Zealand Listener

Saturday March 2

Film: SPACEMAN

Adam Sandler and the spider from Mars, possibly. Despite being burnt out (sorry) after directing Johan Renck“It is very much a story about myself,” he told the “A story of how we egotistical, narcissistic men with our ambition fuck up our relationships.” It appears that Sandler gives a career-defining performance as lonely Czech cosmonaut Jakub, who is on a solo mission to Jupiter when he encounters a benevolent space spider (voiced by Paul Dano) who is there to help. On Earth, wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan) is also not doing well.

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