Summer movie season has definitely ended. When I walked into the theater on Friday night, OPENING NIGHT, there were only about 10 other people there. Now, granted, the discrepancy between the appeal of a thoughtful comedy about corporate malfeasance in... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: THE INFORMANT!»
Posted on September 21, 2009 in
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Tags: Archer Daniels Midland | Mark Whitacre | Matt Damon | Steven Soderbergh | The Informant!
The side-by-side photos of Michael Douglas and Liberace alone suggest that this is going to be stuff of legend.... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL DOUGLAS TO PLAY LIBERACE»
Posted on September 16, 2009 in ,
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Tags: LIberace | Michael Douglas | Steven Soderbergh
So, there is more news today about Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt's beleaguered project, Moneyball, based on the book by Michael Lewis. After being tabled by Columbia Pictures just days before the film was supposed to start shooting, due to... CONTINUE READING IS MONEYBALL THE MOST IMPORTANT MOVIE PROJECT OF ALL TIME?»
Posted on July 10, 2009 in
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Tags: Aaron Sorkin | Baseball | Brad Pitt | C.R.E.A.M. | Moneyball | Steven Soderbergh
The Informant trailer, you guys: Huh. I actually read The Informant, Kurt Eichenwald's account of Mark Whitacre's enthusiastic participation in a covert FBI investigation into Archer Daniels Midland (supermarket to the world). I read it after hearing a really good... CONTINUE READING THE INFORMANT! SURE GOT WACKY AND FAT ALL OF A SUDDEN»
Posted on July 1, 2009 in
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Tags: Archer Daniels Midland | Crime | Joel McHale | Justice | Kurt Eichenwald | Matt Damon | Steven Soderbergh | The Informant! | Tony Hale
I really like Steven Soderbergh. He has managed to carve himself a pretty enviable niche in Hollywood, moving between big budget mainstream movies and smaller passion projects, and both sides of his career are great in their own way. On... CONTINUE READING THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT»
Posted on May 8, 2009 in
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Tags: Sasha Grey | Steven Soderbergh | The Girlfriend Experience
The trailer for The Girlfriend Experience, the low-budget Steven Soderbergh movie everyone wet themselves over when the poster came out eariler this month (tagline "see it with someone you f**k"), because it stars Sasha Grey, who is a porn star... CONTINUE READING THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE: SEE IT WITH A GROWN MAN IN A DIAPER»
Posted on April 16, 2009 in
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Tags: Diapers | Sasha Grey | Steven Soderbergh | The Girlfriend Experience
I'm sure that the mildly amusing resemblance that this poster for Steven Soderbergh's biopic Che has to the imaginary failed Pablo Escobar biopic Medellin in Entourage is just that. A cute instance of life imitating art but not really. You... CONTINUE READING MEDELLIN FINALLY GETS A MOVIE POSTER»
Posted on October 15, 2008 in
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Tags: Che | Coachella | Entourage | Medellin | Steven Soderbergh
There's an article in the Hollywood Reporter today about how tight the indie film market has gotten when it comes to finding a distributor, as evidenced by the difficulty three films faced at this year's Cannes Festival: NEW YORK --... CONTINUE READING LET'S BUY STEVEN SODERBERGH'S CHE, YOU GUYS»
Posted on July 31, 2008 in
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Tags: C.R.E.A.M. | Che | Steven Soderbergh
