(For SI reader Guruji and other Movie-Lovers)
[U.S. readers: George Clooney's Up in the Air is now in limited release in NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and possibly at a theater near you too.]
Folks, just got out of Ritz 5 on Walnut St in Philadelphia after watching the absolutely delightful movie Up in the Air.
(Full review coming in a few hours after we get home. Hopefully the traffic on 95 won’t be that bad. See y’all soon.)
* Update *
After watching a surfeit of crappy Bollywood and Tollywood movies lately, Up in the Air (directed by Jason Reitman) amply redeems and completely restores our faith in movies as an art form.
Between the Bollywood Bachchas oops Bachchans’ Paa and George Clooney’s Up in the Air, it really was a no-brainer for us today.
Without a moment’s hesitation, we picked Clooney’s Up in the Air.
And boy what a right decision that turned out to be.
Unique Story
An unusual story with solid performances by George Clooney and his principal co-stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick makes the $6 we spent for the matinee show of Up in the Air a complete paisa vasool film.
George Clooney is Ryan Bingham, a Terminator.
Oh, no.
Not the Arnold Schwarzenegger kind but a Terminator of employees for corporations and bosses who lack the balls to break the bad news to their employees.
A corporate hit man. Continue reading »
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