Steven Soderbergh, fresh off The Informant!, discussed with MTV Movies Blog the tone of his upcoming Liberace biopic, which will feature Michael Douglas as the glamor god himself and Matt Damon as his young lover, Scott Thorson. According to MTV’s in-depth research of the subject, “Thorson met Liberace when he was 17 years old and [...]

The Fix Is In.  That is the title of episode 168 of “This American Life” where the story of Mark Whitacre was first heard by screenwriter Scott Burns and eventually made into a movie.  Such is Hollywood.  After seeing the film yesterday, I looked up the Chicago Public Radio program and listened to it this [...]

With the exception of a very routine start to the 2nd act, The Informant! functions as a gradual transition, challenging the viewer to keep up without pandering or even seeming to hide anything.

Visually beautiful yet sickeningly distant in its presentation, The Girlfriend Experience is either a treatise on veneer thin materialism or an exercise on what independent features should not be: coolly detached with nary a reason to care about a single character in the film. Steven Soderbergh, who is a master of capturing inner turmoil (Sex, [...]

While not knowing much about this film, it seems to me its of epic proportions without seeing it. Che is the latest masterpiece from Steven Soderbergh and actor Benicio Del Toro, who have won awards a many already for their work on these films. Yes I said films, its such an epic that its cut [...]