Tag Archive for George Clooney

George Clooney to Direct Untitled Mark L Smith Project for Netflix

Netflix has announced that Academy Award Winner George Clooney is in pre-production on an untitled feature project for Netflix that he will direct and star in. Mark L. Smith adapted the screenplay from the novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Smokehouse Pictures’ Grant Heslov (Academy Award Winner) and Clooney will produce alongside Anonymous Content…

Who is Your Favourite Voice Assistant?

Hollywood star and now British royalty, but the voice of Meghan Markle is a turn off when it comes to which celebrities Aussies would choose to be their voice assistant, the largest study into how Australian’s use voice assisted technology and smart speakers has revealed. While the Duchess of Sussex ranked as having the least…

Money Monster

Director Jodie Foster Staring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell Rated M Score 3/6 Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio. On the face of it this is a pretty decent average movie. With Jodi Foster in the director’s…

Hail Caesar!

Director Ethan Coen & Joel Coen Staring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich Rated PG Score 4.5/6 A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio’s stars in line. Hail Caesar! Was a good way to relax after a pain in the ass moment involving the wheelchair lift on my car. I know…

Tomorrowland

Director Brad Bird Staring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie Rated PG Score 3.5/6 Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory. I suppose proper…

Gravity

Director Alfonso Cuarón Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris Rated M Score 6/6 A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space. Okay, I did not catch this one at any of the local cinemas. I probably should have, I needed the biggest screen possible…

The Monuments Men

Director George Clooney Staring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman & Cate Blanchett Rating M Score 4/6 An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. The Monuments Men raises an interesting question ‘is a piece of…

Batman and Robin

Directed by Joel Schumacher Staring George Clooney, Uma Thurman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris O’Donnell & Alicia Silverstone Rating PG Score 1/6 Will Gotham City survive the threats of Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy who seek to rid the world of humanity and to start again or will Batman and robin save the day? I’m willing to…

The Descendants

Directed by Alexander Payne Staring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller Rated M Score 5/6 With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with…