Hollywood loves making films about itself, and this time it’s writer/director Noah Baumbach’s turn. The Netflix original film has an excellent cast, with George Clooney as a world-famous movie star in his 60s, Jay Kelly, and Adam Sandler as his dedicated manager, Ron Sukenick. Now, seeing this casting makes me think the 64-year-old Clooney essentially …
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Day 4 Review – TCFF 2015 Gala Screening: Brooklyn
Three of my most highly-anticipated films at TCFF premiered on Saturday. Two of them are studio features, Youth & Brooklyn and one is a small indie drama The Dust Storm, which I have reviewed here along with my interview w/ one of the director and cast members. It was quite a whirlwind day starting with the Future of Film …
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FlixChatter Review: Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is one of those films that transcends film genres — it's a drama, sci-fi, comedy, thriller, all wrapped into one. Based on David Mitchell's 2004 novel, the film follows six nested stories of six characters across time and space, and explores how the characters' lives are connected and somehow influence each other in …
Upcoming Flix Spotlight: Cloud Atlas
I was researching about an upcoming post when I came across this project to be produced by the Wachowski siblings. The first thing that caught my eye was that Hugo Weaving will be playing six different characters in this movie. The Aussie actor seems to be the Wachowskis' muse, having starred in The Matrix and …
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