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Posted by Jason Stringer on May 4th, 2010 | View Comments

Master craftsman George Clooney in THE AMERICAN trailer

The trailer for George Clooney’s upcoming suspense thriller The American might have you comparing it to James Bond. It’s okay, it’s only natural– after all, it’s about a suave ‘master craftsman’ (instead of a spy) who appears to get the ladies and sip latte (instead of martinis) while on the job in foreign territory. Yet, having read a little deeper and given the...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 8th, 2010 | View Comments

Thoughts on a ground-breaking Oscars ceremony (82nd Academy Awards)

It used to be that I’d have to endure a media blockout through an entire Monday so I could enjoy the Oscars telecast. As it happens live on a Sunday night in the States, it’s actually around 10AM Monday morning in Australia, and in the past the TV network screening the event wouldn’t do so until the prime time slot later that evening, usually 8 or 9 pm. This meant having to avoid all...
Posted by Robin Hare on Feb 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

BAFTA awards snub AVATAR, earn my respect

Ah, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts: Britain’s answer to the Academy Awards. I don’t think I know any people who speak of the BAFTAs (or the Golden Globes, for that matter) when comparing the calibre and critical worth of films; it’s always the Oscars that everyone talks about ten years after the fact. But the Oscars are weird and unpredictable, especially when it comes to...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 24th, 2010 | View Comments

UP IN THE AIR never really soars: review

George Clooney is just one of those guys you can depend on: call it predictable, call it a lack of versatility, but Clooney nails that old-fashioned / modern / classy triumvirate in every single film he’s in. If that’s a style you buy into, he has a nice long filmography for you to browse to your heart’s content, to which you can blindly add his latest outing. If, however, you got sick of...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 4th, 2009 | View Comments

UP IN THE AIR & INVICTUS get awards season head-start from NBR

The National Board of Review has given Up In The Air a good head-start to the upcoming awards season, honouring it as Best Picture of 2009 and awarding its star George Clooney Best Actor (sharing with Morgan Freeman in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus… even despite his questionable accent). Up In The Air is director Jason Reitman’s third film (following Thank You For Smoking and Juno), and has been...
Posted by Robin Hare on Nov 29th, 2009 | View Comments

FANTASTIC MR FOX looks hip, kooky, awful

I’ve seen the trailer for Fantastic Mr Fox a few times now. Enough times that it’s made an impression. The upcoming Wes Anderson-directed flick looks unique, to say the least. But in this case I think unique will work against the film. Sacrilige! I hear you cry, Wes Anderson is a genius, everything he touches turns to gold! Well that’s, just, like, your opinion, man, but okay. Bear with...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 11th, 2009 | View Comments

UP IN THE AIR new trailer to keep you high

Who would have thought that dude from ER would be the Frank Sinatra of our generation? (Without the singing). George Clooney is box office gold at the moment. One of his new films, Up In The Air, directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) has been making a big splash online after it played at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. There’s even thought it could make a play at the...
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