Tag: Steven Soderbergh
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Black Bag, a delightful spy thriller
In Black Bag Cate Blanchette and Michael Fassbender are married spies in British intelligence. They spy on each other, on their work colleagues, and on the world. They’re chess masters manipulating the players and the moves on a life and death global chess board.
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Full Circle review: complex web of characters
Full Circle, a limited series on Max directed by Steven Soderbergh, brings a multi-level story from the past into the present when a 16 year old boy is kidnapped.
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Review: KIMI, put blue hair dye on the shopping list
KIMI is a tightly drawn thriller starring Zoë Kravitz. I was delighted by Zoë Kravitz, by the fast-paced action from director Steven Soderbergh, and by the kickass empowered ending for the main character. This film is streaming on HBO Max.
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Review: Let Them All Talk
Let Them All Talk is an odd but interesting film with A-list actors including Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, and Dianne Wiest. Director Steven Soderbergh put the three of them on the Queen Mary 2 and let them improvise most of the dialog. It’s streaming on HBO Max.
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Review: The Laundromat
The Laundromat isn’t a narrative. It isn’t a documentary. It isn’t a Vaudeville act. But it comes close to all those in an eccentric effort to explain the vast trail of emptiness behind the revelations in the Panama Papers.
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Watch This: Unsane and Hereditary will Give you a Good Scare
It’s two for the price of one today, with a theme to set your blood pumping. Feeling the need for a good vicarious scare? Need to be horrified? Two upcoming films will help you with that. They are Unsane and Hereditary. Claire Foy and Toni Collette head the two films, which should be enough recommendation…