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Up in the Air Review
George Clooney might be 49 years
but that hasn’t stopped girls woo over him like crazy every time they
see his new film or at a premiere. ‘Up in the Air’ is directed by Jason
Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. It is a film
adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name, written by Walter Kirn.
 George
Clooney acts as Ryan Bingham who works for a company that fires people
as their clients don’t have the guts to do it.
He spends most of his life flying in aeroplanes, calling the airport
his home and his goal to achieve ten million frequent flyer miles.
However, his life has revolved around being this cold and heartless
person who hurts people and using his analogy ‘What’s in your Backpack?’
as a motivational speaker.
While travelling, he meets another frequent flyer named Alex (Vera
Farmiga) and they begin a casual relationship but eventually he
discovers that she is only using him as a form of escape when she is in
reality, married and having children.
Meanwhile, a young co-worker Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) gets
everyone started with a bright idea to remotely handle firing people via
internet to cut costs and time. Ryan gets worked up and tells her, in
the presence of their boss played by Jason Bateman, that she doesn’t
know the bitterness about being in person for someone who has just been
fired. Ryan has to train Natalie by travelling with her to fire people
face-to-face but it is then that she realises that it is a difficult
task.
The whole movie shows that it easy adapting to a life where you hurt
people isn’t easy as much as Ryan makes amends by being close to his
sisters and chatting to his sister’s man since he has cold feet before
their wedding. Up in the Air is a witty, often delightful, love story
that deserves most of the Oscar-love it will surely get.
How to Train your Dragon soon at MC!
‘How to Train Your Dragon’, also known as How to Train Your Dragon
3D, is an upcoming computer-animated film by DreamWorks Animation
loosely based on the 2003 book of that same title. The film is set in a
mythical world of Vikings and dragons.
 The
story centers around a viking teenager named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), who
lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life.
The teen’s smarts and offbeat sense of humour is disliked by his tribe
and its chief, Hiccup’s father, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler).
However, when Hiccup is included in Dragon Training with the other
viking teens, he sees his chance to prove he has what it takes to be a
fighter.
After he entangles a dragon with a bolas-shooting cannon, Hiccup
releases and ends up befriending the dragon, who he dubs Toothless. This
relationship flips his world upside down as he strives to convince his
tribe that they don’t need to be dragon-slayers but he ends up making
the tribe angry and they lead a attack on the dragons home.
 Percy
Jackson at Savoy!
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (known as Percy
Jackson & the Lightning Thief in the UK and Australia) is a
fantasy-adventure film directed by Chris Columbus. The film is a
adaptation of The Lightning Thief, the first novel in the Percy Jackson
& The Olympians series by Rick Riordan.
It stars Logan Lerman as the titular Percy Jackson alongside an
ensemble cast which includes Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario,
Jake Abel, Rosario Dawson, Steve Coogan, Uma Thurman, Catherine Keener,
Sean Bean and Pierce Brosnan. It was released to theatres on February
12, 2010. |
