You’ve gotta love Wes Anderson.
When he’s on, when he’s great — i.e.: Rushmore — he’s awesome.
About half of his new film, The Darjeeling Limited comes close to reaching the same comic heights of Rushmore (but in a very different way).
And the second half, well, it’s not bad, but it’s not as good either. Continue reading
It’s no secret that I’m a George Clooney fan, and have been for a while.
So the night that Michael Clayton opened, I was there.
And I’m happy to say, the man does not disappoint.
Here he plays — well, he’s a lawyer, but he’s the kind of guy that high-powered law firms have on staff to fix things in their clients’ favors, not necessarily to get involved in the actual law.
But Clayton’s feeling off his game lately thanks to a bad business decision and a messy divorce, and he says he’s more of a janitor, cleaning up messes.
Either way, he gets enmeshed in a case involving supposed environmental giant U/North and in assisting a colleague who is losing his grip, he finds all is not as it seems with his firm’s prized client. Continue reading
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