Presence
Despite sharing its name with a Led Zeppelin album, Presence is a haunted house movie and not the Zeppelin documentary that came out the same week. They should have called […]
Tag Archives: Steven Soderbergh
Ocean’s Twelve
Some time after Ocean (George Clooney) and his gang of thieves pulled off their epic casino heist, casino owner Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) is hunting them down for his money […]
Ocean’s Eleven
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) celebrates his release from prison by robbing three Las Vegas casinos, not including the Trump Casino because there’s presumably no money in it. Ocean’s Eleven is […]
The Laundromat
When her husband (James Cromwell) dies in a boat crash, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) goes in search of the compensation she’s owned and discovers a global labyrinth of exotically-based companies […]
Magic Mike
Dan recently proved that he doesn’t know me at all by buying me a film about a bunch of sexy men who undress for a living. Fortunately the Magic Mike […]
Traffic
This is not a biopic of psychedelic rock band Traffic, but it does feature a lot of drug use. Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic has the distinction of going up against another Soderbergh movie, Erin Brockovich, for the Best Picture Oscar […]
On iPlayer: Behind the Candelabra
Currently available on iPlayer, Behind the Candelabra sees the young Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) hired by Las Vegas superstar Liberace (Michael Douglas), whose controlling behaviour consumes their relationship. Like Foxcatcher, but not repressed. Not […]
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
It’s hard to imagine a time before Steven Soderbergh had directed a thousand movies. But in 1989, he made his first feature, Sex, Lies, and Videotape; the Palme d’Or-winning arthouse drama that […]
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