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The Men Who Stare At Goats Review
5 November 2009 11:14 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
The Men Who Stare At Goats Directed by: Grant Heslov Written by: Peter Straughan (screenplay), Jon Ronson (book) Starring: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges Since the dawn of modern warfare, people have fantasized about the concept of super soldiers, enhanced human beings that could defend their homeland and give them the edge over their enemies. At this point, we're not just talking about fictional characters like Captain America, either; today's soldiers really are trained to push their body beyond its physical and mental limits, and outfitted with bleeding edge technological advancements. Military interests drive scientific research like few other fields, leading to all kinds of wacky pills and biological experiments. But would it surprise you to learn that U.S. military has delved into even stranger realms in the past, and may still be doing so today? In his 2004 book, The Men Who Stare At Goats, Welsh »
- Sean
Clooney's 'Men Who Stare at Goats' Fun But Forgettable
5 November 2009 9:25 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
At times, The Men Who Stare at Goats seems like it could be a minor entry in the Coen brothers’ filmography. Quirky dialogue and a few Coens alumni—George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, and Stephen Root—populate the film, and it certainly veers toward the surreal. Though the movie gets a few laughs with its absurdist humor and winks at the audience, it never reaches the inspired lunacy of the Coens’ previous work, or even approaches the heights of similar war satires such as Three Kings and Catch-22.
Despite elements that make it seem more science fiction than non-fiction, the debut from actor/writer Grant Heslov is based on Jon Ronson’s factual book. Ewan McGregor employs a slightly distracting American accent to play Bob Wilton, an Ann Arbor journalist. In investigating a routine story, he interviews Gus Lacey (Root). At first, Lacey's stories about life as a psychic spy seem crazy, »
Clooney To Topline 'The Descendants'
3 November 2009 3:03 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
George Clooney is not a man to stay still for long. Not content with having three films come out within a couple of months of one-another (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Up in the Air) and shooting Anton Corbijn's The American it looks very much like Clooney's going to star in Alexander Payne's The Descendants (Sideways and About Schmidt).
According to Variety the Oscar winning actor is in talks to star in the dramatic comedy by as a father who takes his two daughters on the road to track down his wife's lover.
We here at Screenrush have long been amazed it George's remarkable ability - given the fact that he's one of the most handsome, charming and intelligent men on the planet! - to express pathos (think Michael Clayton and Up in the Air, the upcoming comedy from Juno director Jason Reitman »
Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney: Who'd make the best Frank Sinatra?
28 October 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Back in May, we heard about the Frank Sinatra biopic that Martin Scorsese will be directing with Universal producing. Now mega-stars Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney are rumored (courtesy of UK newspaper The Guardian) to be in contention for the role of Old Blue Eyes. It's probably important to note here that Clooney's rep, Stan Rosenfeld, told EW, "I wouldn't believe anything I read in British papers" -- which isn't exactly a denial -- while a Universal rep said the studio had no comment. (Reps for DiCaprio and Depp were not immediately available for comment.) Fact or fiction, »
- Archana Ram
On Meeting Tilda Swinton
20 October 2009 3:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Sitting in the City Winery, anxious to see one of the true goddesses of the screen on stage for her New Yorker Festival interview, I was hypnotized by the screens to either side of the stage. Images streamed from a wordless Derek Jarman short Depuis le Jour (1987). Tilda Swinton's smiling face and long cascading red hair kept reappearing, as if we were being watched by the ghost of her youth. When the current familiar incarnation of Swinton walked on stage minutes later, blond and androgynous, the flickering images were gone but the youthful actress remained. She was still wordless, too. Swinton's mic wasn't working... but the technical snafu proved welcome. There was slightly more time to acclimate oneself to her ageless presence in the flesh. Swinton is now a 48-year-old Oscar winner (for Michael Clayton), bonafide celebrity, and fashion icon for her eerie and singular beauty (who is often cited, »
Clooney Talks 'Fox,' 'Goats,' and 'Up in the Air'
19 October 2009 9:18 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
There's a massive interview with George Clooney in The Telegraph, which stems from the actor-writer-director-producer having three films in the hopper for this fall. He was doing press for all three - Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and Up in the Air - while he was in England, and discusses Goats and Up in the Air at considerable length.
He also reveals another one of his great practical jokes, this one a payback prank against Matt Damon. But the most interesting part of the whole piece is Clooney's attitude toward the type of films he makes these days. Because he got famous fairly late - he was already in his 30s when E.R. debuted - Clooney gained a lot of perspective from his failures, particularly when he found film success.
“I’ve been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an »
- Colin Boyd
Robert Redford’s ‘The Conspirator’ Adds Six to Cast
16 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Wow, where did all the sudden interest in joining Robert Redford’s Abraham Lincoln assassination flick, The Conspirator, come from? Over the last few days a total of six names have been added to the cast list and they are (in alphabetical order): Alexis Bledel (Sin City), Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda), Justin Long (Drag Me To Hell), Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler) and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton). The six new additions join the previously announced James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn.
Being directed by Redford from a script by James Solomon, The Conspirator focuses on the real-life Mary Surratt (being played by Penn), one of the alleged co-conspirators of The Lincoln Assassination, as well as focusing on the man, Frederick Aiken (being played by McAvoy), who reluctantly agreed to defend her in court. The film is different from the other Lincoln-related movie in the »
- Ross Miller
Home Movie and The Butcher (Film Reviews)
15 October 2009 9:53 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Fangoria Archives: Originally posted 7/15/2008
It has only taken a decade or so, but the children of The Blair Witch Project have come of age in the last couple of years, and found-footage horror is flourishing on big and small screens. A handful of direct Blair Witch knockoffs/spoofs notwithstanding, the vérité form has only really been embraced very recently by fright filmmakers, ranging from old masters (George A. Romero with Diary Of The Dead) to genre-feature first-timers (the Cloverfield gang), from foreign practitioners ([Rec]’s Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza) to those remaking them (the Dowdle brothers of Quarantine). While the first-person approach can give screen terror an immediacy that traditional filmmaking styles cannot, it also carries the limitation of restricting what the audience-surrogate characters can plausibly capture on their cameras.
Home Movie, the writing/directing debut of actor Christopher Denham, doesn’t quite get over that hurdle, but for a lot of its running time, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
New Trailer and Release Date for ‘Up in the Air’
2 October 2009 8:33 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Chances are you’re familiar with Jason Reitman’s last movie, Juno. The film garnered him an Academy Award Nomination for Best Director, though screenwriter and former erotic dancer Diablo Cody, along with “it girl” Ellen Page stole most of his thunder. For most people, Reitman’s name probably doesn’t ring any bells.
With Up in the Air, that might be about to change. And we have a trailer that will show you why.
Up in the Air, adapted from a bestselling novel by Walter Kirn, stars George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a middle-aged professional down-sizer. Bingham spends the majority of his days traveling, going from city to city playing message boy for bosses who don’t have the heart to tell their employees that they’re fired. His life’s goal is racking up ten million frequent flyer miles; he keeps his relationships casual so he’s free to fly whenever business calls. »
- Brian Gresko
Up in the Air Trailer
2 October 2009 8:14 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
George Clooney plays a kind of specialist. He fires people. Like in Michael Clayton, he cleans up situations which his bosses deem too messy, dealing with those employees who literally need to be escorted out of the building by police. As such, he travels a lot, and that distance would be enough to put him on the moon. That’s the concept behind Jason Reitman’s latest film, Up in the Air, which is like his previous full length features, Thank You for Smoking and Juno, in that people who treat the world with casual indifference by looming just a little above the fray get too close to the heat and are mollified by the very thing they try to be indifferent to. In the hands of a lesser director, such stories might sound like routine Lifetime movies of the week (you know, like a doctor who fixes hearts, but »
- Jacob
Oscar Watch: George Clooney, The Coen Brothers And More
2 October 2009 3:03 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
What movies will be taking home little gold statuettes this awards season? We give you some of our predictions.
George Clooney in "Up in the Air"
Photo: Dale Robinette/ Paramount
As the calendar page turns to October and the last of the summer blockbusters fade into the distance, it is time to cleanse our palate. That's right, folks, awards season is here once again, and this weekend's release of "A Serious Man" indicates that it's time to put away remakes, roman numerals and TV adaptations and instead expect movies that are — gasp! — smart.
Naturally, we here at MTV will be all over the 2009 awards season, right up to our annual coverage backstage at the Oscars. But who will be the next "Slumdog," "Brokeback" or "Little Miss Sunshine"? Below you'll find a list of 10 films we'll be watching closely between now and Oscar night.
Over the last few years, »
Full Trailer For Up In The Air Online
2 October 2009 2:53 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
This is the one we've been waiting for... after the first teaser for Up in the Air launched on the web a few weeks ago it jumped to the very top of the Screenrush to-see list, and is just one of the many reasons we're so excited about this year's London Film Festival which begins two weeks yesterday.
In Jason Reitman's follow-up to the phenomenally succesful Juno, George Clooney stars as an isolated corporate-downsizing consultant (otherwise known as the guy who comes to fire your staff because you're too gutless to) who finds his entire way of life threatened just when he seems to be getting somewhere.
We'll be honest with you, this trailer is not the incontestable great masterpiece of charm and perfectly timed beats that the teaser was, but it still could just be the funniest, warmest most enticing trailer you've seen this year.
Check it out »
Up In The Air Theatrical Trailer
1 October 2009 11:39 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Barely a month after a teaser and a clip, here's the full theatrical trailer for Up In The Air; the eagerly anticipated pairing of star George Clooney and director Jason Reitman.As you'll know by now, Clooney is the morally empty "corporate downsizer" on a mission to collect a million air miles as he travels around eviscerating small businesses, until circumstances start converging to prick his conscience. The new trailer obviously showcases Clooney, doing his wounded Michael Clayton corporate schtick, but it also gives us a good look at Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick as the female leads, and glimpses of what's sure to be sterling support from Jason Bateman, Jk Simmons, and flavour-of-the-year Zach Galifianakis.The mainstream smarts of Reitman's Juno, plus some of the edge of his Thank You For Smoking reapplied, plus Clooney on top of his game, plus sterling co-stars and supporting cast, equals palpable hit. »
DVD Playhouse--September 2009
26 September 2009 1:01 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—September 2009
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The Human Condition (Criterion) Masaki Kobayashi’s epic (574 minutes) adaptation of Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel was originally made and released as three separate films (1959-61), and is rightfully regarded as a landmark of Japanese cinema. Candide-like story of naïve, good-hearted Kaiji (Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor, to Imperial Army solider, to Soviet Pow, and Kaiji’s struggle to maintain his humanity throughout. Unfolds with the mastery of a great novel, beautifully-shot, and a stunning example of cinematic mastery on the part of its makers. Four-disc set bonuses include: Interview with Kobayashi; Interview with Nakadai; Featurette; Trailer; Essay by critic Philip Kemp. Widescreen. Dolby 3.0 surround.
State Of Play (Universal) Russell Crowe stars as a veteran Washington D.C. political reporter investigating the murder of an aide to a rising congressional star (Ben Affleck), who also happens to be an old friend. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Secret Identity: Who Should Star In The 'Fantastic Four' Reboot?
17 September 2009 7:58 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
The recent announcement regarding a "Fantastic Four" reboot confirmed long-standing rumors that the property was set for an overhaul—and given recent comments from Chris Evans, it's unlikely that the original cast will return for the do-over.
With the likes of Evans, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Ioan Gruffudd presumably removed from the new "Fantastic Four," what sort of actors will the revamped film need in order to create a viable, sustainable franchise?
I've narrowed down my picks. Read on to see if you agree!
George Clooney as Mr. Fantastic: One of the biggest problems of the first "Fantastic Four" movies was its depiction of a younger Reed Richards. In my mind, Reed works best as an older soul—someone who has seen and done many bizarre things throughout his scientific career, but still has the heart and physique of a hero.
George Clooney might seem too convenient of a »
- Josh Wigler
Tiff: Up In the Air
15 September 2009 6:20 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Lev Lewis reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival
Lev (third from left) and friends inbetween screenings
Apologies for my absence yesterday. A crowded day of films and fatigue and incoherent thoughts overtook me. Today, I have a few moments, so a few thoughts on a film that everyone is talking about.
Jason Reitman's mildly diverting corporate comedy, his third stab at directing and second at writing, has moments of inspiration but for the most part feels blandly safe in its assessment of corporate culture. The film has been touted as a departure from Reitman’s earlier, more overly comedic features and this is in a sense true; a malaise of melancholy runs throughout. Thankfully the dramatic overtones rarely interfere with the humour, and this becomes the films strongest asset. For the first hour Reitman pulls off what many attempt, but few can do: the assimilation of drama and comedy. »
- Lev Lewis
Toronto Round-up: Oscar Season Kicks Off!
13 September 2009 7:35 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Not so Up in the Air: a best-actor nod for George Clooney is one of Oscar's first near locks. All of Hollywood, it seems, either is, was, or will be in Toronto this week for the unofficial kickoff of Oscar season. Our strangest encounter was taking the elevator with Kiefer Sutherland, who thanked us for holding the door with Jack Bauer–esque intensity, but stars, directors, producers, and assorted hangers-on are crawling all over the place. Jennifer Connelly, George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Matt Damon, Megan Fox, Michael Caine, Jeff Bridges, Vera Farmiga, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Steven Soderbergh, Paul Haggis—the list goes on. There are also Hollywood’s less well-known but no less vital players: the short guys in convertibles, the man in the $2,000 suit saying into a cell phone, “No, I want to talk about the chase after she’s in the hotel room,” you get the idea. »
Toronto: Getting high on 'Up in the Air'
12 September 2009 10:09 AM, PDT | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »
Here are a few of the kinds of movies I wish that Hollywood made a lot more often (or maybe even two or three times a year): a romantic comedy that's not just about situations but behavior, with two flawed and fascinating adults trying to figure out how to act around each other; a movie that connects to a large audience because it taps, in a rich and bold and immediate way, into the fears and anxieties of our time; a comedy in which the dialogue pings with wit and imagination and verve, yet without calling too much attention to itself (so that it doesn't make your teeth hurt the way that Duplicity did); a movie that keeps surprising you because its characters keep surprising themselves. The beauty of Up in the Air, the new film directed by Jason Reitman (Juno), is that it's all those things at once. »
- Owen Gleiberman
Review | Drifting Through Layoffs: Clooney Plays his Trumpcard in Reitman’s “Up in the Air”
12 September 2009 8:20 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
George Clooney may not possess tremendous range, but he sure knows his sweet spot. In “Up in the Air,” the highly anticipated third feature from “Juno” director Jason Reitman, Clooney plays a man who likes to control his enviornment. As the corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham, he portrays the standard overly confident hustler, hiding doubt behind a smirking facade. Like a vaguely sentimental Michael Clayton, Bingham relishes his dirty work, treating … »
Review | Drifting Through Layoffs: Clooney Plays his Trumpcard in Reitman’s “Up in the Air”
12 September 2009 8:20 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
George Clooney may not possess tremendous range, but he sure knows his sweet spot. In “Up in the Air,” the highly anticipated third feature from “Juno” director Jason Reitman, Clooney plays a man who likes to control his enviornment. As the corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham, he portrays the standard overly confident hustler, hiding doubt behind a smirking facade. Like a vaguely sentimental Michael Clayton, Bingham relishes his dirty work, treating … »
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