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Source Code – Trailer

January 26, 2011
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The synopsis for this film sounds like a cross between “Deja Vu” and “Groundhog Day.”  It’s encouraging to see that Jake Gyllenhaal is progressing from playing sensitive, whiny nerds to sensitive, whiny action heroes.  Could this be a part that Matt Damon turned down? No matter.  Judging by the GCI on display, a significant portion [...]

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Up in the Air – Richard Roeper Video Review

January 20, 2010
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Richard Roeper, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, offers a video review of the new George Clooney film, Up in the Air. See below. Directed by: Jason Reitman Produced by: Daniel Dubiecki, Jeffrey Clifford, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman Screenplay by: Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman, based on a novel by Walter Kirn Starring: George Clooney, [...]

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George Clooney: the Man Who Stares at Planes

December 9, 2009
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George Clooney flexes his star muscles again this season, this time around in “Up in the Air,” a comedy-drama (in the future, when narrative-challenged audiences lose their ability to identify genres, all films will be hybrids) in which Clooney plays a corporate downsizing expert, i.e. a hired gun who specializes in firing redundant executives. While [...]

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