The Coens’ increasingly incredible-sounding Hail Caesar now has Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes linked to star alongside the previously announced George Clooney and Josh Brolin. We’re not worthy! Variety first revealed the news of Tatum’s involvement – though it’s still being negotiated – while THR jumped on the bandwagon with news of Swinton and Fiennes. It was […]
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George Clooney and Josh Brolin join the Coens’ ‘Hail Caesar!’
June 11, 2014 
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The Coens are recruiting some of their favourite featured players for their upcoming comedy Hail Caesar! According to Variety, Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men, True Grit) and George Clooney (O Brother, Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading) will star in the pic. It was previously reported that Hail Caesar! will be a “comical yarn” concerning a famed 1950’s muckraker who spies on […]
Continue readingArt attack – The Monuments Men review
March 11, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 11, 2014 One day we’ll discover George Clooney is actually a long-forgotten screen idol from Hollywood’s golden age who became unstuck from time, and all of this will make total sense. Every few years, presumably when his nostalgia gland swells up and commands him to drain its contents onto celluloid, Clooney […]
Continue readingThe spaces between – Gravity review
October 2, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo October 2, 2013 The old adage goes, ‘They just don’t make ’em like they used to.’ Alfonso Cuarón‘s Gravity should inspire a rephrasing: ‘They’ve never made anything like this before.’ Truly. Its VFX are bigger than your VFX. Even James Cameron – notorious egomaniac – conceded defeat after a viewing, declaring it […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Monuments Men
August 9, 2013 0 Comments
George Clooney takes another stab at Oscar with his World War 2 flick, The Monuments Men. The trailer for his latest directorial effort arrives with the blockbuster season finally at an end, and awards season on the horizon. Based on a remarkable true tale, it stars Clooney as the Danny Ocean of the Allied forces, […]
Continue readingTom Cruise abandons The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
May 27, 2013 1 Comment
Seems like you could make a movie out of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’s troubled production history. Tom Cruise is the latest actor to abandon the project, Deadline reports. Guy Ritchie is set to helm the adaptation of the classic TV series for Warner Bros, which would have starred Cruise and Armie Hammer. Though Hammer is […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Gravity
May 10, 2013 1 Comment
Ladies and gentleman, that recurring nightmare you’ve been having has been brought to life by Alfonso Cuarón! The teaser for his long-awaited Gravity has arrived online, and it’s about as claustrophobic and stressful as promotional materials get. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star as astronauts who are stranded in space following a technical malfunction. According […]
Continue readingThe top 10 Oscar ‘sure things’
February 15, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 15, 2013 When the first cavemen started to tell stories by projecting shadows onto flat surfaces, we suspect they were forced to compete for an annual award that recognised one’s shadowplay as better than the others. You can also assume that there were onlookers who clubbed each other to death over […]
Continue readingBird, Lindelof, and Clooney’s mysterious 1952 retitled Tomorrowland
January 30, 2013 0 Comments
We don’t have any real information on this enigmatic Brad Bird/Damon Lindelof/George Clooney collaboration, but we’ll take what we can get! According to EW, the project formerly known as 1952 has been rechristened Tomorrowland. Seeing as this is a Disney production, it’s fair to assume that this movie is somehow related to the futuristic Disneyland attraction of the same name. […]
Continue readingClooney, Greengrass team with Argo screenwriter
November 30, 2012 0 Comments
Argo producer George Clooney is set to reteam with that film’s screenwriter, Chris Terrio, on a new crime thriller. According to Variety, Clooney will star in the flick, which Paul Greengrass is keen to direct. Details are under wraps, but it is supposedly an original tale “set in the world of New York criminal syndicates.” In the […]
Continue readingGeorge Clooney considers Brad Bird’s mysterious 1952
November 12, 2012 0 Comments
George Clooney might star in Brad Bird’s upcoming – and ultra-mysterious – Disney picture 1952. According to Variety, Clooney is negotiating to star in the flick, which has been penned by Damon Lindelof (Prometheus, Lost, general internet scorn) and Jeff Jensen. Though details are under wraps, sources close to the production describe it as “‘Close Encounters of […]
Continue readingCraig, Murray, Blanchett, and Dujardin set for Clooney’s Monuments Men
October 31, 2012 0 Comments
George Clooney is rounding up an impressive cast for his next directorial effort, The Monuments Men. According to Deadline, the WW2 flick will star Daniel Craig, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, and Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville. The picture follows a bunch of art historians who attempt to recover famous works from Hitler […]
Continue readingThe top 10 George Clooney performances
May 11, 2012 2 Comments
The top 10 George Clooney performances. By Simon Miraudo. George Clooney scored a Best Actor Oscar nomination this year for his sterling work in Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants, in which he played a grieving husband who discovers his comatose wife was conducting an affair behind his back. The Academy Award went elsewhere – and to […]
Continue readingNo man is an island – The Descendants review
May 8, 2012 0 Comments
The Descendants – Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer. Directed by Alexander Payne. Rated M. Originally published January 10, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. The Descendants arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia May 9, 2012. There might not be two filmmakers more diametrically opposed – but still operating in the same thematic wheelhouse – than Cameron Crowe and Alexander Payne. The former is warm and […]
Continue readingAnd the Oscar winners are…
February 27, 2012 1 Comment
The winners of the 84th Academy Awards were announced in Los Angeles today, at a ceremony hosted by nine-timer Billy Crystal. Surprises were few and far between; in fact, the only shocker was that the show wrapped up after a relatively brisk three hours. Michel Hazanavicius’ award-gobbling juggernaut The Artist was named the Best Picture of the […]
Continue readingYou’re invited to The Quickflix Oscar Live-Blog
February 22, 2012 0 Comments
By our count, it’s been … ooh … 51 weeks since the Countdown to the Oscars first began. Can you believe the 84th Academy Awards ceremony is now mere days away? UPDATE: It’s happening right here! Before we start heralding next year’s nominees (The Grey!), let’s send off the current batch in style. All 5,765 of the […]
Continue readingNo man is an island – The Descendants review
January 10, 2012 4 Comments
The Descendants – Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer. Directed by Alexander Payne. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. There might not be two filmmakers more diametrically opposed – but still operating in the same thematic wheelhouse – than Cameron Crowe and Alexander Payne. The former is warm and fuzzy; the latter is cold and […]
Continue readingVoter beware – The Ides of March review
November 23, 2011 0 Comments
The Ides of March – Starring Ryan Gosling, George Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by George Clooney. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Sometimes, it’s just nice to see a classic tale told well. George Clooney steps behind the camera once again for The Ides of March, an impressive political fable about ‘the line’ and the extent to […]
Continue readingSteven Soderbergh abandons The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
November 18, 2011 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s retirement date just got a little bit closer. The director has reportedly walked away from Warner Bros’ film adaptation of the 1960s spy show The Man From U.N.C.L.E. According to Indiewire, his decision was the result of WB’s indecisiveness and what he believed to be a lack of commitment to the project. George […]
Continue readingBradley Cooper will not be The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
November 11, 2011 3 Comments
Bradley Cooper has decided not to star as American spy Nathaniel Napoleon Solo in Steven Soderbergh‘s film adaptation of the classic show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Wrap reports. It was believed Cooper was waiting to find out who would play his Russian offsider Illya Kuryakin, before officially signing on. Joel Edgerton was reportedly in talks […]
Continue readingBradley Cooper to join Soderbergh’s Man from U.N.C.L.E.
October 24, 2011 0 Comments
Following the exit of his boy George Clooney back in August, Steven Soderbergh has been on a manhunt to find a star for his adaptation of the 1960s spy show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Variety reports Soderbergh has settled on Bradley Cooper to play charming espionage agent Napoleon Solo. Although Soderbergh’s currently working on male […]
Continue readingCannonball Run remake in the works; Ritchie directing Pitt and Clooney?
October 20, 2011 0 Comments
Here’s an odd one. General Motors may put up the cash for Warner Bros.’ reboot of Cannonball Run, which the studio wants Guy Ritchie to helm. It gets crazier. According to Vulture, Ritchie would like to recruit Brad Pitt, George Clooney and some of their Ocean’s Eleven co-stars to appear in the flick. The original Cannonball Run films – […]
Continue readingClooney pulls out of Soderbergh’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
August 30, 2011 0 Comments
Although Steven Soderbergh has made no secret of his plans to retire in the coming years – even telling the New York Times earlier this week that he wants to become a painter – he still has plenty of projects in the works before that fateful days arrive. First up is his outbreak-thriller Contagion, followed […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Ides of March
July 28, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for George Clooney‘s highly anticipated new drama (and dare we say it, Best Picture Oscar contender) The Ides of March has debuted online. Based on Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, The Ides of March stars Ryan Gosling as Stephen, the man behind the next president of the United States (played by Clooney). As Stephen navigates an […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Descendants
May 26, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for The Descendants has debuted online. It is the first film in seven years from Oscar-winning writer/director Alexander Payne (unless you count his work as co-writer of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, which we don’t) and stars George Clooney as a man who must re-evaluate his life after his wife suffers […]
Continue readingAronofsky and Clooney to explore Human Nature
May 11, 2011 3 Comments
In March, Darren Aronofsky dropped out of directing The Wolverine, reasoning that a year long shoot in a foreign country wasn’t viable as he would be away from his family for too long (although there have been hints that Aronofsky’s real reason for leaving the project was that 20th Century Fox wouldn’t give him total […]
Continue reading>Clooney catches The Monster of Florence
January 7, 2011 1 Comment
>Following George Clooney’s excellent performance in Anton Corbijn’s The American, it hardly comes as a surprise that Fox 2000 have chosen him for their upcoming “star vehicle” role. Announcing Clooney as the lead, Fox 2000 have just finalised a deal to option the best-selling, non-fiction crime novel, The Monster of Florence, Deadline report. Pitched to […]
Continue readingGoat save us – The Men Who Stare At Goats review
July 13, 2010 0 Comments
The Men Who Stare at Goats – Starring Ewan McGregor, George Clooney and Jeff Bridges. Directed by Grant Heslov. Rated M. Originally published March 3, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. I’ve spoken previously of the critic-blinding powers of George Clooney’s charm. No matter the quality of the film, no matter the quality of his performance – […]
Continue readingPure wild animal craziness – Fantastic Mr. Fox review
June 17, 2010 0 Comments
Fantastic Mr Fox – Starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Jason Schwartzman. Directed by Wes Anderson. Rated PG. Originally published December 31, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. To say that Wes Anderson has a very particular, very identifiable film style is like saying that Woody Allen films often feature a neurotic protagonist. No duh. Anderson is […]
Continue readingMoving is living – Up in the Air review
May 11, 2010 0 Comments
Up in the Air – Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Directed by Jason Reitman. Rated M. Originally published January 6, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. George Clooney’s smile is pretty much the only thing a film needs to be an enjoyable experience. An entire trilogy of near-plotless heist movies were built entirely on […]
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