Much has been written about Steven Soderbergh’s decision to quit directing films after a career spanning 26 features, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, The Informant and Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen. Soderbergh has lamented the state of contemporary cinema, while maintaing that he will direct plays and perhaps TV as well, in the […] Read more »
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a controversial and environmentally damaging method of mining for natural gas, explored in the Academy Award nominated documentary Gasland (2010). Promised Land, picks on this highly lucrative business and tells, in a very gentle way, a fictional story of how two resource industry sales people, played by Matt Damon and […] Read more »