The Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck stands out as being the best film that George Clooney has directed to date. Clooney’s second film sees the actor-filmmaker back in the TV world. His second outing focuses not on game shows but on the world of news. This is a world that the filmmaker is all too familiar with as his father, Nick Clooney, was a TV journalist and anchorman for many years. The elder Clooney…
"Good Night, and Good Luck – A George Clooney Retrospective"Tag: Robert John Burke
After a number of years acting in front of the camera, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind marked George Clooney’s directorial debut. Going into the early 2000s, the Kentucky native had never planned to direct a film. Everything changed upon reading Charlie Kaufman’s screenplay. He put in the work when it came to directing and as we all know, it wasn’t a fluke. Clooney had a vision of what sort of film he wanted to make…
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – A George Clooney Retrospective"
A love letter to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, Future ’38 is a throwback screwball worth seeing. Written and directed by Carmen Sandiego veteran Jamie Greenberg, the film stars Betty Gilpin, Nick Westrate, Robert John Burke, Ethan Phillips, Sophie von Haselberg, and Ilana Becker. The film starts with Neil deGrasse Tyson introducing us to a lost film from 1938. He talks about the science behind the movie and what they got right.…
"Future ’38: A Love Letter to 1930s and 40s Screwball Comedies"