Burn After Reading News

Thanks so much, Hollywood. Once again this Thanksgiving holiday you're offering a safe haven from all that pumpkin pie, frenzied shopping and strained relations.

Another video game property is headed to movie theaters. Source: THR Plan B, the production company headed by Brad Pitt, are currently developing a film version of a video game called Dark Void .

In A SERIOUS MAN, it's 1967, and Larry Gopnick, MICHAEL STUHLBARG, is not a happy man.

The Coen Brothers, best known for making offbeat, quirky movies, hit the big time with No Country for Old Men, which won four Oscars, and they followed that up with Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, which became their first Number One at the US box office.

Michael Stuhlbarg plays the unravelling Larry Gopnik in A Serious Man. November 20, 2009 The Coen brothers continue to create idiosyncratic work, writes Stephanie Bunbury.

Brad Pitt reportedly turned down $5 million for a public appearance to spend time with his children.

David Swindle Grade: D+ I'm sure the makers of the new George Clooney/Ewan McGregor comedy "The Men Who Stare At Goats" knew they had a great concept on their hands when they optioned nonfiction author Jon Ronson's book.

The Men Who Stare at Goats 11/11/2009 Genre: Satirical Comedy Directed by: Grant Heslov Starring: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang Any film that combines the talents of George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Bridges, features the Small Faces' "Itchykoo Park" on the sound track, and dares to call itself The Men ...

What a great title. The film? Eh. Close. Very close. But not so great. If I were a psychic with the First Earth Battalion, I'd use my sparkly eyes powers to change the focus of "The Men Who Stare At Goats" from whiny journalist Bob Wilton to The Men Who Stare At Goats.

Michael Strulbarg plays a suburban, synagogue-going Job in this dark comedy. You'd think that director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen '79 would be in good spirits these days.

More updates are coming down the pipe from the American Film Market in Santa Monica, with our friends at Collider uncovering a first look at George Clooney in Control director Anton Corbijn's The American .

It's obvious to conclude the tone of Grant Heslov's "The Men Who Stare At Goats" immediately - in the first scene, we get an opening title that reads, "more of this is true than you would believe." Satire, it is.

"The Men Who Stare at Goats," starring Jeff Bridges as an army shaman and George Clooney as his best pupil, is a refreshingly unpredictable and fizzy comic fantasy.

Now that the November winds are blowing and the nights are getting longer, it's time to fly away.

Tilda Swinton hated attending a strict boarding school where she was cut off from music, boys and parties, but claims she is relieved she wasn't a ''beautiful'' teenager.

It's not really funny, what's happening to 1960s college physics professor Larry Gopnik in the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man." But it's hilarious, just the same.

George Clooney in "The Men Who Stare at Goats," which opens Friday. George Clooney stars alongside a goat among others in Iraq-based movie Paranormal war comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats" opens this Friday Actor also fronts two more acclaimed, upcoming films "Up in the Air" and "Fantastic Mr.

George Clooney is in talks to play the lead role in the first feature film Alexander Payne has directed in five years , the follow-up to 2004's Sideways .

George Clooney meet Dusan Makavejev: Hollywood clown to Yugoslavian art-movie satirist.

A Serious Man opens Friday The Coen Brothers don't care what I think of their latest movie.