The Informant!
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
You can’t keep a good executive down. After ENRON, after Lehman Brothers and the continuing fury at executive bonuses it was quite a change to see the corporate executive class as brimming with ineffective buffoons rather than coldly calculated capitalist psychopaths, in The Informant! Matt Damon stars as the amiable Mark [...]
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. [...]
MJ Documentary?
The King of Pop continues to be incredibly lucrative, even in death. The latest posthumous venture concerns the “…rights to the approximately 80 hours of high-definition, full dress rehearsal footage captured by AEG Entertainment, the company behind Jackson’s concert series.” It’s the rehearsal footage for the “This Is It” series of 50 live shows [...]
Originally Posted in Creative Loafing.
2009 is already halfway over, and the fall movie season (with all the originality and Oscar-bait it has to offer) is just around the corner. What follows is my list of the 25 films I’m most interested in seeing in the second half of 2009. Read all the way to the [...]
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 [...]
