Though Contagion director Steven Soderbergh is eager to retire from filmmaking, screenwriter Scott Z. Burns keeps cooking up ways for them to keep working together. While promoting their latest collaboration, Side Effects, Burns told Coming Soon that Contagion may have some (half) life left it in it. “We’ve been talking about turning it into a TV series and I […]
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Tinker tailor Soderbergh spy – Haywire review
July 24, 2012 
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Haywire – Starring Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, and Channing Tatum. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. By Richard Haridy. Haywire arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia July 25, 2012. Mixed martial artist Gina Carano stars in Steven Soderbergh‘s Haywire; an action film swathed in such a haze of cold detachment it’s positively glacial. From Solaris […]
Continue readingContagion screenwriter tackles Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel
May 16, 2012 0 Comments
Scott Z. Burns has been recruited by Fox to write the sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, says The Hollywood Reporter. Burns previously penned Contagion and The Informant for director Steven Soderbergh. He will do a pass on the first draft by the original flick’s screenwriters, Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa. Andy Serkis is set to reprise the role […]
Continue readingIt’s a sick, sick, sick, sick world – Contagion review
February 29, 2012 0 Comments
Contagion – Starring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. Originally published October 19, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Contagion is the last movie you want to see with a sore throat. Or maybe it’s the first movie you want to see with a sore throat. What could possibly top the sensory, 4-D, cinema-going experience of feeling your tonsils swell […]
Continue readingThe Top 10 Films of 2011
December 29, 2011 0 Comments
The Top 10 Films of 2011. By Simon Miraudo. It’s the final week of 2011, so we’re sharing with you, once again, our end-of-year lists. This was originally published on December 22, 2011. That’s all she wrote. The end is nigh. And despite what Lenny Kravitz might sing, it is indeed over. 2011 is rapidly coming […]
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December 22, 2011 8 Comments
The Top 10 Films of 2011. By Simon Miraudo. That’s all she wrote. The end is nigh. And despite what Lenny Kravitz might sing, it is indeed over. 2011 is rapidly coming to a close, and after having sat through almost 250 films, I have selected a top ten (plus 20 honourable mentions) to put […]
Continue readingThe 10 best female performances of 2011
December 8, 2011 2 Comments
The 10 best female performances of 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Acting! It’s perhaps the most subjective craft in the entire moviemaking process. What better way to celebrate its unquantifiable nature than by ranking our favourite performances of the year? Look past the inherent ridiculousness of comparing a batch of boisterous bridesmaids with sisters awaiting the end […]
Continue readingSoderbergh takes a Bitter Pill
November 30, 2011 0 Comments
For a guy who claims to be close to retirement, Steven Soderbergh sure is getting busy. Mere weeks after abandoningThe Man From U.N.C.L.E., he has picked up another project by the same writer, Scott Z. Burns, entitled Bitter Pill. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Soderbergh is pitching the flick to studios. Little is known about […]
Continue readingInterview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad)
October 27, 2011 0 Comments
Interview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad). By Simon Miraudo. Bryan Cranston is enjoying something of a career renaissance, thanks to his iconic turn in TV’s Breaking Bad (it may be a little early to describe his performance as ‘iconic’, but hey, we’re calling it). As chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White, Cranston has earned three consecutive Emmys as […]
Continue readingBradley Cooper to join Soderbergh’s Man from U.N.C.L.E.
October 24, 2011 0 Comments
Following the exit of his boy George Clooney back in August, Steven Soderbergh has been on a manhunt to find a star for his adaptation of the 1960s spy show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Variety reports Soderbergh has settled on Bradley Cooper to play charming espionage agent Napoleon Solo. Although Soderbergh’s currently working on male […]
Continue readingIt’s a sick, sick, sick, sick world – Contagion review
October 19, 2011 0 Comments
Contagion – Starring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Contagion is the last movie you want to see with a sore throat. Or maybe it’s the first movie you want to see with a sore throat. What could possibly top the sensory, 4-D, cinema-going experience […]
Continue readingMadonna bombs, Clooney rules and Fassbender and Mulligan go full frontal at Venice and Telluride
September 6, 2011 0 Comments
Madonna‘s first feature length film, W.E., made its world debut at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, where it was met with some of the most scathing reviews of the year. The flick stars Andrea Riseborough as King Edward’s wife Wallis Simpson – for whom he abdicated the throne – as well as Abbie Cornish in […]
Continue readingClooney pulls out of Soderbergh’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
August 30, 2011 0 Comments
Although Steven Soderbergh has made no secret of his plans to retire in the coming years – even telling the New York Times earlier this week that he wants to become a painter – he still has plenty of projects in the works before that fateful days arrive. First up is his outbreak-thriller Contagion, followed […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: Contagion
August 11, 2011 2 Comments
So, ahem, PANIC! The posters for Steven Soderbergh‘s viral outbreak thriller Contagion have debuted online, and they certainly don’t instil calm. The six major character posters capitalise on the all-star cast, specifically Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet (we’ll just have to hope co-stars John Hawkes and Bryan Cranston will get their own in the near future). To see […]
Continue readingSteven Soderbergh still plans to retire; demands ‘Oprah’ treatment
June 17, 2011 0 Comments
There’s a little part of us (OK, a big part of us) that hoped Steven Soderbergh‘s plan to retire in the coming years had just been blown out of proportion, like the grosses of 3D films at the box office. But, the man himself has reconfirmed his exit from the world of moviemaking, leaving us […]
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