Unfortunately for lead George Clooney, he didn’t get any credit for it in the press thanks to a particularly hilarious joke Brad Pitt played on him.
I'll be frank with you — I am all about that high-falutin' "interactive experience > video game" life. If a game (or experience, or whatever you wanna call it) pushes the limits of our relationship to it being a "game," offers narrative immersion over typical AAA trappings, and otherwise feels like an art installation, I'm all in, baby! Thus, the trailer for Annapurna Interactive's (yes, like the indie film company who made films like Hustlers and Booksmart) Twelve Minutes is catnip to me. And the gobsmacking A-list cast doesn't hurt, either. James McAvoy and Daisy …
Twelve Star Wars theatrical releases over forty years isn't a bad track record. It gets better when seeing how all but one breach the two hour mark.
Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven is a blast, and an infinitely rewatchable movie. But it’s so light and breezy that perhaps we all thought a sequel would be easy. After all, you’ve got a charismatic cast and all you have to do is make them stage an elaborate heist. But Ocean’s Twelve rested entirely on not only the charisma of the cast and Soderbergh’s direction, but showing them as out of their depth. The guys who had managed to rob the Bellagio spend the entire movie with a gun to their heads, trying to find …