Directed by Jason Reitman Up in the Air is a feel good movie in part about the recession. One of the first images we see onscreen is of people fired, expressing dismay, fear, anger and the like in regards to being let go. Closing images will revisit many of those same people addressing how they … Continue reading Up in the Air (2009)
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Tomorrowland (2015)
Directed by Brad Bird You know how sometimes we read stuff off the internet and then parrot it back as our own opinion? Or maybe it's a movie, a podcast, a book or really anything else. It could just be what you overhear someone say. It's like there's a subject on which you have no … Continue reading Tomorrowland (2015)
Three Kings (1999)
Directed by David O. Russell In Three Kings four U.S. soldiers celebrate the end of the Gulf War by hatching a plan to steal Saddam Hussein's gold. They will find a map rolled up in a man's ass and quickly determine what this map signifies. Then the four soldiers of varying ranks head into a small … Continue reading Three Kings (1999)
Solaris (2002)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh Solaris is a remake of the Andrei Tarkovsky film of the same name. Like the original it is a philosophical science-fiction story that takes its time and might put off certain viewers who want Alien more than they're looking for the final thirty minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The story follows psychologist … Continue reading Solaris (2002)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Directed by the Coen Brothers In an interview promoting Hail, Caesar! the Coen Brothers remarked about George Clooney, “He’s very adept at playing an idiot, and you have to be a very good actor to play an idiot." Clooney often plays the fool in the Coen Brothers' movies, whether in O Brother, Where Art Thou, Burn After Reading, Hail, … Continue reading Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
