Tag Archives: George Clooney

The Tender Bar review — A writer grows up in the “good ol’ days”

May 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by George Clooney | Written by William Monahan and J.R. Moehringer | 106 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime A shaggy dog story like this doesn't get made too often. I have to assume its existence has a lot to do with the heft George Clooney can swing in the industry as a filmmaker.… Read More

Ticket to Paradise review — Big stars don’t save blah Bali break

October 24, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Ol Parker | Written by Parker and Daniel Pipski | 104 min | ▲▲△△△ | On Demand You can't deny the dazzling star power of Mr George Clooney and Ms Julia Roberts, Oscar-winners both but more likely to be remembered as movie stars than character actors — or in Clooney's case, as a… Read More

The Midnight Sky review — Clooney’s sci-fi drama goes gently

December 26, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by George Clooney | Written by Mark L. Smith, adapting a book by Lily Brooks-Dalton | 118 min | Netflix "Barbeau Station." "February 2049." "Three weeks after the event." This is the on-screen text that follows astronomer Augustine (Clooney), whiskered, ailing, and distraught, to an empty cafeteria in the opening shots of George Clooney's… Read More

Reviews From The Vault Vol. 9 — Thrillers

September 4, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 8 — Comedies

August 28, 2019 flawintheiris

A Brief History of Spy Movies: Part Two

June 29, 2019 flawintheiris

40 YEARS OF SPY THRILLERS In the first post I watched the Harry Palmer movies, and the third I look at the film adaptations of John Le Carré novels. Here's a cross-section of stellar—and not-so stellar—spy movies through the years. The Quiller Memorandum (1966) was directed by Michael Anderson, Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay based on… Read More

Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen reviews — Soderbergh’s heist trilogy shines like a diamond

June 7, 2018 flawintheiris

Ocean's Eleven (2001) Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by Ted Griffin, from the 1960 screenplay by George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell, Harry Brown, and Charles Lederer | 116 min | iTunes It seemed like a weird idea at the time: Let's take the not-so-great Rat Pack picture from the untrendy early '60s, and remake… Read More

Suburbicon review — Domestic noir clashes with earnest elements

November 2, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by George Clooney | Written by Joel & Ethan Coen and Clooney & Grant Heslov | 104 min The prospect of directing a Coen Brothers script that's been sitting in the drawer for awhile must've been just too tempting for Clooney. I get that. I also get the tastiness of this material on the… Read More

Money Monster review — The Medium Short

May 14, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Jodie Foster | Written by Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore, and Jim Kouf | 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ Money Monster seems to aspire to a kind of edgy, media-in-the-crosshairs comedy/drama mix. It wants to be like The Big Short, Broadcast News, or even Network. It isn't at all, but that doesn't mean it doesn't deliver some fun for your… Read More

Hail, Caesar! review — Drop By The Coens’ Hollywood party

February 8, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen | 106 min | ▲▲▲▲△ Once again the Coen Brothers celebrate their love of Hollywood's golden age with a knowing comedy in the spirit of The Hudsucker Proxy and Barton Fink, though lighter and sillier than both. Set largely at Fink's Capitol Pictures studio in the early 1950s—complete… Read More