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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week, as the galaxy’s most popular smuggler returns to the big screen in Solo: A Star Wars Story, we’re taking a look at some of our favorite movies about charismatic crooks and cons.Â
Ensuring that, when the madness of George Clooney’s Hulu version of Catch-22 finally arrives, it’ll at least be in the soothing cadences of good old Coach Taylor, Deadline reports that Kyle Chandler is taking over Clooney’s part in the upcoming TV adaptation of Joseph Heller’s classic novel. With Clooney stepping back…
Over the weekend, five teenagers who survived the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida, announced March For Our Lives, an organized demonstration in Washington, D.C. that will try and convince lawmakers to get off their NRA-controlled asses and actually do something about gun violence before more people are murdered…
Hulu spent the weekend rectifying any perceived shortage of George Clooney shows in its digital coffers. Not only has the streaming service snapped up the rights to all 15 seasons of ER, which loosed Clooney’s charm upon the world (on his second try; let’s not forget Baby Talk), but it’s also given a series order to…
Anyone who has spent the last few decades wondering who this George Clooney guy is can finally catch up with his breakout role thanks to a new deal to bring classic NBC medical drama ER to Hulu. This comes from Variety, which notes that this is ER’s “long-awaited” debut on any streaming service, with Hulu now getting…
According to Variety, our very generous and wealthy friend George Clooney is developing a limited series for Netflix about the Watergate scandal alongside Matt Charman and Grant Heslov. The streaming service hasn’t officially picked it up, but the plan is for the show to tell the stories of “certain key figures” in…
Everybody already loves George Clooney, because he’s handsome and charming and did a very good job playing Batman (no matter what any jerks say), but it turns out that he’s actually a very generous friend with a penchant for giving fantastic gifts. That’s according to Rande Gerber, Cindy Crawford’s husband and a…
According to Variety, George Clooney is set to direct and star in a TV miniseries based on Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22. The project will be a six-episode series from Paramount TV and Anonymous Content, and though it doesn’t have a home yet, the idea of Clooney returning to TV for his first regular role since …
George Clooney’s Suburbicon is a mishmash: two incompatible movies—one archly cynical, the other painfully sincere—wedged uncomfortably together. The foundation of the project is a dusted-off screenplay by the Coen brothers, a mordant small-town crime lark they wrote right after their debut, Blood Simple, and then…
The new George Clooney-directed film Suburbicon takes place in an idyllic 1950s suburb where a family man (Matt Damon) stages a home invasion to get rid of his wife (Julianne Moore), but—shockingly—things go awry. The movie contrasts the façade of 1950s suburbia with weightier themes like social inequality and racism.…
For over 40 years, the Toronto International Film Festival has attracted some of the best filmmakers in the world to showcase the biggest films of the year. This year’s festival saw the release of Darren Aronofsky’s wildly controversial Mother! and the James Franco-directed The Disaster Artist. Past festival winners…
With Together Again, Jesse Hassenger looks at actors and directors who have worked together on at least three films, analyzing the nature of their collaborations.
George Clooney is no stranger to political discourse: He publicly opposed the Iraq War, endorsed Obama’s reelection bid and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and pointedly criticized former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. On the red carpet for his new film Suburbicon, we asked Clooney to try to…
Celebrities like George Clooney are regularly admonished to stay out of politics by Republican one percenters for purportedly being out of touch with real Americans, the ones whose healthcare access said Republicans have gone out of their way to limit, presumably because there’s nothing so down-to-earth as dying from…
While many critics and journalists (including our own correspondent, A.A. Dowd) have characterized this year’s Cannes Film Festival as underwhelming, the line-up for its fall cousin, the Venice Film Festival, is bursting with potential. As Variety reports, the main competition and sidebar selections includes Darren…
The trailer for Suburbicon, the new film written by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and the Coen brothers, and directed by Clooney, is a bit tonally disjointed. For roughly the first 40 seconds, it comes across like yet another broad satire of white people in the suburbs, a darkly comic and snide putdown of Pleasantville
Priests, 1:45 p.m.
George Clooney has now moved from the world of “very rich actor’ into the realm of “Dr. Dre-esque performer/mogul,” with CNBC reporting that Clooney just sold his tequila company, Casamigos, to multinational alcohol company Diageo for $1 billion. (Technically, it’s only $700 million now, and $300 million later based…
From 1984 to 1996, Murder, She Wrote broadcast 264 episodes on CBS. With that many murders in the otherwise bucolic small town on Cabot Cove, Maine, there were bound to be a lot of suspects, victims, murderers, etc. One enraptured fan—JasonToon on meh.com—has taken it upon himself to create trading card images of some…