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George Clooney Looks in the Mirror

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 Samuel Porteous 2 Comments 8 1 2, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup, celebrity culture, Fellini homage, film review, George Clooney, Grace Edwards, Hollywood satire, Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach, Oscar season, Riley Keough, Ron Sukenick reference, Sadie Sandler, Stacy Keach, Stardust Memories, The Player

Jay Kelly is Noah Baumbach’s meditation on fame, ego, and the fading glow of Hollywood’s ‘last movie star.’

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Everything That’s Streaming in December 2025

November 27, 2025November 26, 2025 Jake Harris 0 Comments Apple TV December releases, Criterion Channel, December streaming, Disney Plus, Disney Plus December releases, documentary premieres, Fallout season 2, George Clooney, Gillian Anderson, HBO Max, HBO Max December releases, holiday movies 2025, Hulu, Hulu December releases, Kate Winslet, Knives Out 3, Lena Headey, Netflix, Netflix December releases, Peacock, Peacock December releases, Percy Jackson season 2, Prime Video, Prime Video December releases, Rowan Atkinson, Shudder, Shudder December releases, Simu Liu, Taylor Swift The Final Show, Wake Up Dead Man

Murder mysteries, Oscar hopefuls, holiday tearjerkers, Taylor Swift’s last Eras hurrah — and even a Simu Liu brain-hacking spy thriller. December’s stacked.

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Netflix: Watching the Juggernaut in the First Half of 2025

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments A House of Dynamite, Adam Sandler, Adolescence, Amazon Prime Video, Back in Action, Black Mirror season 7, Cameron Diaz, Carl Sagan, Dept. Q, Disney, Evoca.tv, Frankenstein, George Clooney, Guillermo del Toro, Idris Elba, Jamie Foxx, Jay Kelly, Katheryn Bigelow, Luminate, McDonald's, Mia Goth, Missing You, Money Heist, Netflix, Noah Baumbach, Orange Is The New Black, Oscar Isaac, Ozark, Prime Video, Rebecca Ferguson, Sofia Carson, Spotify, Squid Game, Squid Game season two, Statista, Straw, The Life List, Tyler Perry, Zero Day

The streaming platform is racking up galactic numbers

TELEVISION Theater

The Pixel Curtain Descends on Broadway

July 18, 2025 Rebecca Kurson 1 Comment Billy Wilder, George Clooney, Marshall McLuhan, Maybe Happy Ending, Network, Norma Desmond, Paddy Chayefsky, Sarah Snook, Sidney Lumet, Sunset Blvd., the Picture of Dorian Gray

What does it mean that so many theatrical shows feature screens on stage?

Good Night and Good Luck

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Is ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ Actually All That Timely?

June 8, 2025June 11, 2025 William Schwartz 0 Comments Anderson Cooper, Donald Trump, Edward R. Murrow, Elon Musk, George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck, Joe Biden, Walter Isaacson

Every generation has its own struggles. This play, which aired live on CNN this weekend, takes place 70 years ago.

Wolfs

These ‘Wolfs’ Don’t Bite

September 27, 2024October 1, 2024 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Jon Watts, Wolfs

George Clooney and Brad Pitt are rival fixers on a wearisome wild goose chase

Everything That’s Streaming In September 2024

September 3, 2024September 11, 2024 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Agatha All Along, Anna Wintour, Apartment A, Aubrey Plaza, Brad Pitt, Colin Farrell, Colin Jost, George Clooney, James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Julia Garner, Kathryn Hahn, Kathy Bates, Matlock, Michael Che, My Brilliant Friend, My Old Ass, Norman Reedus, Richard Hammond, Slow Horses, The Grand Tour, The Penguin, Wolfs

‘The Penguin,’ ‘Agatha All Along,’ a gender-swapped ‘Matlock’ starring Kathy Bates, and much more!

NO FAKES

What’s Really in the NO FAKES Act

August 5, 2024August 9, 2024 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Amy Klobuchar, Charles Rivkin, Chris Coons, Fran Drescher, George Clooney, Hulk Hogan, Joe Biden, Marsha Blackburn, Motion Picture Association, NO FAKES Act, SAG-AFTRA, Thom TIllis

Will Washington’s proposed bipartisan anti-AI legislation provide actors (and musicians) the protection they need from digital variants?

Haunted Mansion

The Best (and Worst) Disney Movies Based on Theme-Park Rides

July 27, 2023 Jake Harris 0 Comments Brian de Palma, Dwayne Johnson, Eddie Murphy, Emily Blunt, George Clooney, Haley Joel Osment, Haunted Mansion, Johnny Depp, Jungle Cruise, Kiera Knightley, Mission To Mars, Muppets Haunted Mansion, Orlando Bloom, Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Country Bears, Tomorrowland, Tower of Terror

A new ‘Haunted Mansion’ is out this week. Where will it rank? (Low)

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #077

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Annie Ernaux, Black Adam, Decision To Leave, George Clooney, Hawkman, Julia Roberts, Park Chan-Wook, The Rock, Ticket To Paradise

‘Black Adam,’ ‘Ticket to Paradise,’ ‘Decision to Leave,’ and Annie Ernaux

Ticket To Paradise

‘Ticket’ to Nowhere

October 22, 2022October 27, 2022 Sara Stewart 0 Comments George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaityln Dever, The White Lotus, Ticket To Paradise

Julia Roberts and George Clooney no longer equal romantic comedy gold

Midnight Sky

‘The Midnight Sky’, George Clooney’s $100 Million Mistake

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 Elijah Pollack 0 Comments Felicity Jones, George Clooney, The Midnight Sky

Boring in a theater, boring at home

Political

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Seven Movies About Living Under Political Conflict

September 21, 2020September 24, 2020 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Black Girl, David Straithairn, Edward R. Murrow, George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck, Howard Zinn, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Stewart, John Carpenter, John Ford, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Ousmane Sembene, Roberto Rossellini, Rome: Open City, Rowdy Roddy Piper, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The People Speak, They Live, Yves Montand, Z

Nothing we’re going through is new

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Space Mopes

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Amy Adams, Brad Pitt, Christopher Nolan, Damien Chazelle, George Clooney, Gravity, Interstellar, James Gray, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, Matthew McConaughey, Sam Rockwell, Sandra Bullock, The Right Stuff

Why are All the Astronauts So Sad?

The Golden Girls

Thank You For Being My Friends

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 Rachel Llewellyn 1 Comment Bea Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty, George Clooney, Leslie Nielsen, Mario Lopez, Quentin Tarantino, Rue McLanahan, The Golden Girls

Why Millennials Love ‘The Golden Girls’

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