Tag: stevensoderbergh
THE CHRISTOPHERS Review: Art Forgery Comedy-Drama Excels On Every Level
Steven Soderbergh's film stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, with James Corden, Jessica Gunning.
Director in Focus: Steven Soderbergh's Silky Smooth Charms, From BUBBLE to THE CHRISTOPHERS
The director continues to assert his stylish independence with deceptively mainstream films and television series.
Opening This Week: FACES OF DEATH Goes Digital, THE CHRISTOPHERS Confronts Art, CHAO Gets Romantic
Plus: 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'
BLACK BAG Review: Soderbergh's Sexiest Film in Decades
Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star in Steven Soderbergh's spy thriller.
BLACK BAG Trailer: Michael Fassbender Does Not Like Liars in Steven Soderbergh's Spy Potboiler
It is pleasing to see how effortlessly director Steven Soderbergh makes the kind of of low-key espionage potboilers Black Bag, or previously with Michael Fassbender, Haywire, seem. Collaborating again with screenwriter David Koepp (Presence, Kimi) this spy drama about George Woodhouse (Fassbender)...
Sundance 2024 Review: PRESENCE, Steven Soderbergh's Haunted House Movie
A minor work from a major filmmaker, Presence is Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh’s first official foray into supernatural horror. Shot primarily in a single, standalone set over less than two weeks and a limited shooting schedule, Presence doesn’t reinvent or reimagine tropes...
Now Streaming: KIMI and THE GIRL BEFORE Cast Enthralling Spells
Zoë Kravitz stars in Steven Soderbergh's thriller, while Gugu Mbatha-Raw and David Oyelowo star in a mysterious mini-series, both on HBO Max.
Review: HIGH FLYING BIRD, A Sly Side-Eye at Modern Sports Slavery
Andre Holland, Zazie Beetz, Melvin Gregg, Bill Duke and Kyle MacLachlan star in Steven Soderbergh's drama, which digs far deeper than expected.
Criterion in July 2018: DRAGON INN and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, Plus Sex, Baseball, Hollywood
Home video fans may want to start looking for second jobs for the summer (or winter, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere), because the Criterion Collection is teasing a wealth of goodies in July. The first two that grabbed my...
Review: UNSANE, A Psychological Thriller of the Highest Order
Depending on your thoughts about Logan Lucky, it was possible to worry that Steven Soderbergh had hit a bit of a bump in the road last year, but fortunately the director of prized titles like Ocean's Eleven, Magic Mike and Erin...
Berlinale 2018 Review: UNSANE, A Stellar Piece of Psycho Fiction
Depending on what your thoughts on Logan Lucky were, it was possible to worry that Steven Soderbergh had hit a bit of a bump in the road last year, but fortunately the director of prized titles like Ocean's Eleven, Magic...
AnarchyVision: Jerry Lewis, LOGAN LUCKY, THE HITMAN'S BODYGUARD, INGRID GOES WEST and GOOD TIME
A brief look at the remarkable career of the legendary performer Jerry Lewis, as well as a slew of films to check out -- Logan Lucky, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Ingrid Goes West and Good Time. -- all in the latest...
Review: LOGAN LUCKY Races for the Big Score, Finishing Above Average
How lucky are we? I suppose that depends upon how you feel about the work of director Steven Soderbergh. One of the most deliberately eclectic and diverse filmmakers in the history of Hollywood, Soderbergh has seen fit to shift gears...
New LOGAN LUCKY Trailer: Has Steven Soderbergh Lost His Mind?
A new trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky suggests that the filmmaker may have lost his mind. Enacted by Channing Tatum and Adam Driver (as brothers), Daniel Craig (as an expert they bust out of prison), Katie Homes (as an...
Review: MAGIC MIKE XXL, Like A Classic Hong Kong Action Movie, Only With Strippers
As a delirious musical fantasy, Magic Mike XXL is spectacular. As a movie? Not so much. Writer/producer Reid Carolin, who also penned 2012's Magic Mike, constructs the sequel as pure fan service, dispensing with any possible distractions, such as characterizations...
Cannes 2013 Review: BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Plays A Familiar Tune
It's become somewhat common for HBO to premiere their bigger movies at notable festivals and Cannes makes perfect sense for Steven Soderbergh's so-called final film, Behind the Candelabra. It also makes sense that the Matt Damon and Michael Douglas...
Michael Douglas And Matt Damon Vamp It Up In BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Trailer
Psst. Liberace was gay. And lest there was any confusion over that fact, there it is right up front and center in the new trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Behind The Candelabra. Soderbergh is plying his trade for HBO with this...
AnarchyVision: Talking IDENTITY THIEF, SIDE EFFECTS, TOP GUN 3D, And More
Back in the studio this week, talking about the egregious hell that is Identity Thief, my ambivalence towards Side Effects, and the cinematic rush of Top Gun 3D, along with some words about A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles...
Review: SIDE EFFECTS May Include Whiplash From Jarring Change In Tone
The important thing to know about Side Effects -- which Steven Soderbergh says will be his last theatrical film for a while, maybe forever -- is that whatever you're thinking it's going to be, it probably is not that. Pardon...
Hollywood Grind: Sarris, Soderbergh, Sorkin, and Self-Plagiarism
Within the past 10 days or so, film critic Andrew Sarris died at the age of 82; screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's new TV series, The Newsroom, debuted; Jonah Lehrer, staff writer for The New Yorker, was accused of multiple cases of...
