Posts Tagged ‘George Clooney’
Film Review – Wolfs
The oddly titled Wolfs (2024) – shouldn’t it be “Wolves?” – is about as laid back as you can get when it comes to a crime comedy. There are a lot of shady characters getting into all kinds of hijinks, but it’s all done with an even keeled,…
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Film Review – The Bad Guys
The Bad Guys (2022), the latest adventure from DreamWorks Animation, imagines a world where anthropomorphic animals live and interact with humans. They walk on two legs, wear human clothing, drive cars, communicate with spoken language, etc. This – of course – raises a host of questions.…
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Episode 96 – The Tender Bar
For this week’s episode, we review the coming-of-age drama The Tender Bar, starring Ben Affleck and directed by George Clooney. We also attempt the impossible by recasting the lead characters in Back to the Future with modern actors. As our streaming homework, we examine the…
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Film Review – Ocean’s 8
The biggest flaw of Ocean’s 8 (2018) is the title. Not only is it numerically confused as a sequel to the Ocean’s trilogy (consisting of Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, and Ocean’s Thirteen), but it also has to carry the burden of being yet another spin off of…
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Film Review – Suburbicon
There are two conflicting stories taking place in Suburbicon (2017), and while both have some merit on their own, together they create an imbalance that doesn’t pay off. Is this a black comedy? Is it a murder mystery? Is it a social satire? By dipping…
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Film Review – Hail, Caesar!
Hollywood’s golden era was famously controlled by giant production studios that lorded over their workers as if within fictitious fiefdoms of entertainment and prestige. Studios like MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) hired people known as fixers to maintain a positive public image of the people they employed by…
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Film Review – The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Spies are in. From Kingsman: The Secret Service, to Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation to the next James Bond installment Spectre, for all intents and purposes, the spy genre is back. So why not resurrect a classic franchise from the decade that started it all,…
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Film Review – Tomorrowland
This film is difficult to talk about. Part of the charm and fun of the new Disney film Tomorrowland is the mystery surrounding it. The Disney marketing machine has done an admirable job of whetting the public’s appetite for this story without revealing much at…
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