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 »
For what is purported to be his final theatrical release, director Steven Soderbergh goes for a pulpy trashy thriller rather than anything too highbrow. Rooney Mara plays a troubled young wife whose dependancy on prescription medication has increasingly violent consequences. Channing Tatum plays her recently released husband, whose white collar crimes saw him incarcerated. Jude […] Read more »
Steven Soderbergh tackles the world of male strippers in this surprisingly competent and engaging drama. Channing Tatum continues to prove that he’s more than a monosyllabic lunkhead as the likable hero of the title, who brings young upstart Alex Pettyfer into his fold of six-pack wielding ladykillers, only to fall for The Kid’s sister (Cody […] Read more »