The Informant!
Directed by Stephen Soderbergh
In 1995, Mark Whitacre shocked the world when he became the highest-ranked executive to turn whistleblower in US history. For three years, Whitacre worked with the FBI, covertly taping conversations with his employers and competitors to gather evidence of an international price fixing scheme in the agribusiness sector, amounting to hundreds [...]
September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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The Informant!
Directed by Stephen Soderbergh
In 1995, Mark Whitacre shocked the world when he became the highest-ranked executive to turn whistleblower in US history. For three years, Whitacre worked with the FBI, covertly taping conversations with his employers and competitors to gather evidence of an international price fixing scheme in the agribusiness sector, amounting to hundreds [...]
September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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In our second look at the work of director Steven Soderbergh, Sound on Sight takes on three of the celebrated director’s crime-related films – though they’re crimes of different stripes. His latest, The Informant!, takes on white-collar crime, and stars Matt Damon as a corporate whistleblower who may not be as innocent as he seems. [...]
It’s been over a month since Steven Soderbergh’s last release The Girlfriend Experience. So it’s about time we got a look at his latest film The Informant starring Matt Damon. Expecting a Michael Clayton style drama I was pleasantly surprised the film is being billed as a black comedy. The Trailer has a couple real [...]
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest outing, Ponyo, uses a watercolor and pastel like animation style that decidedly has an old school feel to it. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t stunningly beautiful. The absence of CGI is so refreshing nowadays. The reviews haven’t been as triumphant as his previous outings but that hasn’t stopped the film’s [...]
Matt Damon is currently in talks to star in the long awaited Lance Armstrong bio pic from director Frank Marshall. The project had been in had been in the works for years with Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star at one time. And as far back as the summer of 2005 the film crew captured Armstrong’s [...]
June 14, 2009 | Posted in
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