Tag Archives: George Clooney

Clooney and Roberts are not enough to save the film (film: ‘Ticket to Paradise’ – Ol Parker, 2022)

Posted on October 29, 2022 by admin

George Clooney and Julia Roberts are two excellent actors and the Academy Awards they each won were well deserved. They are also two very suitable actors for romantic comedies, and if we accept the idea that good romantic comedies can … Continue reading →

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a horror movie that fails to scare (film: Suburbicon – George Clooney, 2017)

Posted on January 20, 2022 by admin

I have a problem with George Clooney. I may be to blame, I may not be the only one to blame. I was never excited about his acting performances. All the less so as the director, and this lack of … Continue reading →

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the price of the life of a soldier (film: The Monuments Men – George Clooney, 2014)

Posted on April 8, 2021 by admin

The story in ‘The Monuments Men‘ directed by George Clooney and released on screens in 2014 is worth telling. In the last year of World War II, a small group of Allied soldiers, most of them experts in the arts, … Continue reading →

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Manhattan thriller (film: Money Monster – Jodie Foster, 2016)

Posted on November 26, 2020 by admin

The presence of Julia Roberts and George Clooney in the cast was a good enough reason to choose to see ‘Money Monster‘ (made in 2016) and the name of Jodie Foster as director was another reason. Foster is already at … Continue reading →

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a woman dies (Film: The Descendants – George Clooney, 2011)

Posted on June 7, 2017 by admin

The opening sequences of director Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants include a short (maybe less than one second) image of a powerful and beautiful woman surfing on the waves around Hawaii. For most of the rest of the film the woman … Continue reading →

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diluted Coen brothers (Film: Hail, Caesar! – Coen brothers, 2016)

Posted on March 4, 2016 by admin

A few weeks back I wrote about Bridge of Spies and I was mentioning the fact that I expected more than an OK+ story about the Cold War from a script written by the Joel and Ethan Coen brothers. This feeling … Continue reading →

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floating in space (Film: Gravity – Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, 2013)

Posted on December 26, 2013 by admin

Almost every pre-Academy Awards season brings for me the big Hollywood movies disappointment. A big studios film, usually directed by famous or at least interesting directors, getting raving critical acceptance and breaking audiences records for the year or for the … Continue reading →

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Electoral Films Year (Film: The Ides of March – George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, 2011)

Posted on January 14, 2012 by admin

2012 is an electoral year in the United States, and every electoral year is preceded by a few months by the electoral films year. It must be a few months in advance which makes the electoral films year be a … Continue reading →

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Film: Up in the Air (2009)

Posted on April 22, 2010 by admin

I fail to get enthusiastic about ‘Up in the Air’. It may be because corporate life is no strange thing to me, it may be because romantic comedies or professional dramas are not my piece of cake, it may be … Continue reading →

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Film: ‘Burn After Reading’ – (Coen brothers, 2008)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by admin

There is one mis-perception that this film fixed in my mind – there are not really funny films about stupid people. Stupid people are … well … stupid, their behavior is by definition subject of easy jokes, so for smart … Continue reading →

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