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‘Suburbicon’ Review: Bafflingly Misconcieved

Philip Brown — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:00:51 +0000

Sometimes a group of talented people with the best intentions get together and make a failure. Such is the case for ‘Suburbicon’, a film written by the Coen brothers, directed by George Clooney, and starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac. I’m sure that no one involved wanted to deliver crap. In fact, they...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Suburbicon’

Philip Brown — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:00:58 +0000

‘Suburbicon’ is a film made by talented people and with the best intentions that somehow went wrong. It started as a discarded Coen brothers screenplay that was picked up by George Clooney to direct. It still feels like a Coen movie, only with an added layer of unearned self-importance and political finger-wagging that probably came...

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Weekend Movies: Sell! Sell! Sell!

Luke Hickman — Fri, 13 May 2016 16:00:13 +0000

If you could invest in the box office power of each weekend’s new movie releases, this weekend would not be worth risking your money over. Jodie Foster steps back into the director’s chair with ‘Money Monster‘. George Clooney stars as a broadcast financial advisor, similar to Jim Cramer. Julia Roberts is his producer. Set in...

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‘Money Monster’ Review: Stupid with a Side of Smart

Philip Brown — Thu, 12 May 2016 19:00:57 +0000

On a certain level, ‘Money Monster’ is a high-concept thriller like Hollywood used to make all the time. You know the type – take an easily marketable premise that can be condensed into a trailer (or even better, a poster), cast a couple movie stars, throw in some one-liners, and you’ve got yourself a money...

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Weekend Roundtable: Have You Ever Met a Celebrity?

Josh Zyber — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:00:44 +0000

Celebrities may seem so unapproachable when you see them all glammed up in their fancy dresses and tuxedos on the Oscar red carpet, but they’re ultimately real people and have lives to live like any of us. You may have even run into one in person, whether at a public publicity event or by strange...

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‘Hail, Caesar!’ Review: A Very Coen Goof

Philip Brown — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:00:38 +0000

The thing about the Coen brothers is that no matter strange, dark and personal their movies get, they also still enjoy a good laugh. Their latest film. ‘Hail, Caesar!’, comes after three fairly ambitious pictures that wrestled with some hefty themes. This time, the brothers merely hint at intellectual ambitions. This movie is a goof,...

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‘Tomorrowland’ Review: Future Imperfect

Philip Brown — Thu, 21 May 2015 19:00:51 +0000

Here’s an odd one. We’ve somehow moved past an age in which basing a movie on a theme park ride seems odd, and now have a movie based on an entire theme park section. Thankfully, the person assigned to translate Walt Disney’s fuzzy World’s Fair future ‘Tomorrowland’ into a feature film was Brad Bird, a...

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Weekend Roundtable: What I Really Want to Do Is Direct

Josh Zyber — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:00:54 +0000

After establishing successful careers in front of the camera, many actors get the itch to broaden their ambitions and actually make movies as well as star in them. Sometimes this works out well, but other times not so much. As we witness Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling both give it a shot this month, let’s...

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Contest: Win the ‘Gravity’ Diamond Luxe Edition Blu-ray!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:00:51 +0000

It’s no April Fool’s joke. We’d like to close out the month of March and welcome April with a contest. That sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? We have a couple spare copies of the ‘Gravity’ Diamond Luxe Edition Blu-ray to give away to our readers. Enter now for your chance to win. Even...

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Weekend Movies: Cinemas to Suck Your Wallet Dry

Luke Hickman — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:00:17 +0000

This weekend brings another famous toy to the big screen, a drama that got kicked out of an awards season slot, and yet another adaptation of Young Adult book series. Can you guess which two might be worth checking out? The biggest release of the weekend is ‘The Lego Movie‘. When I was a kid,...

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Now Playing: A Monumental Waste of Time

Philip Brown — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:00:07 +0000

It’s always a bad sign when a movie gets bumped from a prestigious awards-gobbling fall release into the January/February dumping ground. It’s an even worse sign when that movie is a Hollywood superstar packed affair and those stars aren’t seen flogging the project on every possible media venue. ‘The Monuments Men’ is a film starring,...

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Now Playing: ‘Gravity’ Rises to the Top

Aaron Peck — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:00:47 +0000

You’re bound to read all sorts of hyperbolic love for Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’. Just so you know, it’s all true. While fixing the Hubble telescope, Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) are greeted with orbiting debris. Going into specifics about the debris isn’t necessary. All we know is that, after...

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