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Up In The Air: the American Comedy of the Year?
3rd December 2009 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
Dir: Jason Reitman Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman
Ryan Bingham (Clooney) is a suave and sophisticated nomad. He lives 10,000 feet ‘up in the air’ and he is as uncomfortable on the ground, staying in one place, as most other people are during take-off. Ryan’s job (he fires people for a living) means that he is travels for around 362 days every year. He has a lavish... -
London Film Festival: The Men Who Stare At Goats
15th October 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Dir: Grant Heslov Cast: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges
After yesterday’s spectacular opening gala film, Wes Anderson’s ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’, the London Film Festival came crashing back down to earth today with a screening of the distinctly average ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’. There is nothing really wrong with the film (Ewan McGregor’s unfailingly awful American accent aside), but it lacks depth, beauty, or any of the... -
London Film Festival: Fantastic Mr. Fox does Dahl proud
15th October 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Dir: Wes Anderson Cast: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman
Adapting a Roald Dahl story is not an easy task. Born in a rural Welsh village to Norwegian parents in 1916, Dahl struggled through the strict British boarding school system during the inter-war years before joining the RAF for World War 2. It was only after this action-packed and dynamic life, when he had settled in a rural village... -
London Film Festival: ‘The Informant!’
13th October 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Dir: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey
‘The Informant!’ is the true(ish) story of Mark Whitacre, the highest ranking whistleblower in corporate history. Mark (Damon) is a biochemist who has been promoted to the heady heights of agricultural giant ADM’s corporate infrastructure. But when his division loses money for a record year, he pretends that a Japanese competitor has infected ADM’s corn stock, and before he...
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Nicholas graduated in 2008 after three carefree years reading Film Studies. He has since been eking out a living as a script reader, runner, and intern around various production companies and film magazines in London. He will be tapping into the film industry that he has attached himself to like an aphid in order to bring you up-to-date news on interesting film projects.
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