Article: review: George's game plan; Clooney's fascination with celebrity culture and journalistic ethics is back in Leatherheads, but is this romantic comedy up to scratch?(Features)(Movie review)

EVERYBODY loves George Clooney but public affection for the actor-writer-director-producer will be tested - though not too strenuously - by this uneven screwball comedy.

Leatherheads marks his third directorial outing, and is far lighter in tone than Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind or Good Night, And Good Luck, recalling the old-fashioned studio pictures which paired Spencer Tracy with Katharine Hepburn, or Clark Gable with Joan Crawford.

Clooney and Renee Zellweger are the standard ...

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