Review: Up in the Air

Ryan Bingham likes to keep things simple.  A constant traveler for work, he lives his life with his frequent flyer cards, his hotel reward programs, everywhere he goes, he is greeted with a chorus of, “it’s great to see you again, Mr. Bingham.”  Ryan Bingham is a professional down-sizer.

Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Reviewing a filmmaker’s swing at the children’s genre is usually pretty difficult and on par with reviewing a musician’s Christmas record and trying to make sense of it with the rest of their catalogue.  However, Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” is not like most children’s films.

DVD Review: Wind Chill

Gregory Jacobs’ “Wind Chill,” is a horror movie that slipped out into theaters a couple of years ago.  However, I’ve been reading more and more about it recently, (Mr. Peele’s Sardine Liqueour wrote up a very nice review,) and the petigree, (Jacob’s previous film, “Criminal,” was a fun thriller, and two of this films producers …

Streep Joins “Fantastic” Cast

Reports say Meryl Streep is doing one of the voices in Wes Anderson’s upcoming animated movie, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox.”  Streep will reportedly be replacing Cate Blanchett.  Streep joins a pretty great cast.  Already cast in the movie are George Clooney, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Michael Gamobn, Adrien Brody and Wes Anderson himself. This should …

Clooney and Sorkin Considering Teaming Up

Aaron Sorkin, (he of “The American President,” “The West Wing,” and “A Few Good Men,”) has adapted Jonathan Mahler’s book, “The Challenge: Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld.”  The story is about the Navy lawyer representing Osama bin Laden’s driver, who was imprisoned at Gitmo for over five years. According to Variety, George Clooney is interested in playing …

‘Burn After Reading’ Poster Released

The poster for the latest movie by Joel and Ethan Coen has been released. Evoking the work of Saul Bass, the poster has me even more excited to see ‘Burn After Reading.’  The film stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand and John Malkovich. If you haven’t seen the trailer, check out the red-band version …

Editorial: The winner is …

I pride myself on a few things: 1.) My supernatural ability to eat licorice, 2.) solving the rubix cube in under two minutes, 3.) my pecs, and 4.) my ability to argue with myself. The last one scores me a super duper opportunity to argue why each of the Best Picture nominees will win. I …