Tag: george clooney
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Review: Ticket to Paradise
It’s been a long while since I’ve seen a movie quite like Ticket to Paradise, and yet I have seen many movies like Ticket to Paradise. Big names, likable stars, beautiful locales, and you know where it’s going before you enter the theatre. Ticket to Paradise is a movie that gives you everything you expect,…
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The Best Julia Roberts and George Clooney Performances
By Christian DiMartino It feels like it’s been a long, long time since we’ve had a major studio rom-com. They’re something of a dead breed because, well, the ones that we got in the later years were quite poor. Speaking of things we haven’t seen in a while, it feels like it’s been a hot…
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Review: The Tender Bar
George Clooney’s The Tender Bar is a nice little movie whose existence remains a mystery to me. It’s well acted, well made, and well written, yet as memoirs go, this one feels a little too dramatically empty to be made into a memoir, let alone a feature length movie. It’s a light movie that perhaps…
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The Decade in Review- Part I: The Great, the Horrible, and so on
By Christian DiMartino A lot can happen in a year. A lot can change in a year. So try 10 years, and thus, here I am delivering unto you, a decade in review. A lot has certainly changed for me in 10 years. Yet for this, I am of course here to focus on the movies…
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Review: Money Monster
By Christian DiMartino The tagline for Jodie Foster’s new film Money Monster says that “Not Every Conspiracy is a Theory.” Well, I beg to differ. I have a few. Here’s one: if they play the hell out of a movie trailer at the movies, if they REALLY wanna sell you on it… chances are, they’re trying to…
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Review: Hail, Caesar!
By Christian DiMartino Joel and Ethan Coen are back with one of their strangest outings yet, Hail, Caesar!, a fun but bizarre concoction that I found hard to put a finger on. I remember the first time I saw The Big Lebowski. I wasn’t all that enthusiastic about it, mainly because I didn’t really know what the…
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Great Movies: The Descendants
By Christian DiMartino The 2011 Oscar race mostly consisted of The Artist-this, and The Artist-that. Why? Because the old farts at the Academy were thrilled to have a silent picture back in business. The Artist was indeed a wonderful film, and a very well crafted one at that. But come on, The Descendants was the real Best Picture of 2011. The…
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