{"id":18518,"date":"2026-04-02T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18518"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:07:47","slug":"childstar-2004-don-mckellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18518","title":{"rendered":"Childstar (2004, Don McKellar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kid is from a forgotten <em>Neverending Story<\/em> reboot, and has worked consistently.  Our director plays the star&#8217;s driver\/handler, also trying to break into the industry with his experimental film called <em>The Stupidity of God<\/em>.  Good cast, good fun.<\/p>\n<p><em>Matrix Macaulay:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/childstar.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Mark Peranson in (of course) Cinema Scope:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It takes a while to sink in that the characters in <em>Childstar<\/em> evince an odd or off-putting psychology. They aren&#8217;t just in a movie; they behave as if they are in a movie. They interpret their surroundings in movie terms. They might come across as flat or underdeveloped, but that&#8217;s the danger of being driven by culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McKellar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s interesting about the child-star phenomena is that it&#8217;s an exaggeration or acceleration of what a lot of people are feeling. Trapped in popular culture. Circumscribed by this all-encompassing machine that doesn&#8217;t allow them to find their own ability to express themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kid is from a forgotten Neverending Story reboot, and has worked consistently. Our director plays the star&#8217;s driver\/handler, also trying to break into the industry with his experimental film called The Stupidity of God. Good cast, good fun. Matrix Macaulay: Mark Peranson in (of course) Cinema Scope: It takes a while to sink in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,391,1607,91],"class_list":["post-18518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-canada","tag-don-mckellar","tag-filmmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18556,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions\/18556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}