Magic Mike was instrumental in salvaging the wreckage of Matthew McConaughey’s career, but now that he’s got his Oscar (and soon, probably an Emmy, thanks to True Detective), will he take his victory lap and reprise the role of singing stripper Dallas in the sequel? The comedian who played DJ Tobias in the first Steven Soderbergh flick, […]
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Spike Lee wants you to fund his “funny, sexy, bloody” film on Kickstarter
July 24, 2013 
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Spike Lee – taking a leaf out of Zach Braff’s book, of all people – has taken to Kickstarter as a means of funding his next feature film. The untitled project is described as being “funny, sexy, and bloody,” and is budgeted at $1.25 million. With three days down, he’s raised more than $100,000. Steven […]
Continue readingChanning Tatum might direct Magic Mike 2, and Steven Soderbergh might shoot it
July 3, 2013 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh isn’t exactly going gently into the good night. Though he’s supposedly retired from directing feature films, he’s still open to acting as a cinematographer for pals. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Channing Tatum revealed that Soderbergh has offered to be DP on his sequel to Magic Mike (which, by the way, is going […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival – Behind the Candelabra review
June 13, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo June 13, 2013 Crossing the Rubicon of wealth and fame must be a hell of a thing. Michael Jackson arguably lived the strangest life in human history. Tom Cruise enjoys the dual pleasure of being Hollywood’s most bankable star, and perhaps the one famous person everyone is really unsettled by. Kanye West’s […]
Continue readingSoderbergh, Polanski, Payne, and the Coens compete at 66th Cannes Film Festival
April 19, 2013 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s swan song will face off against the latest efforts by Roman Polanski, Asghar Farhadi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Alexander Payne, and the Coen brothers at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The lineup reveals which pictures will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or, collected last year by Michael Haneke’s Amour. Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Behind The Candelabra
April 11, 2013 0 Comments
The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s final (for now) feature film, a HBO production called Behind The Candelabra, recently went live and it’s as garishly flamboyant as we had hoped. Based on a true story, the film chronicles a strange romance between the aging pianist Liberace (played with magnificent style by Michael Douglas) and his young […]
Continue readingTom Cruise might be The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
March 21, 2013 0 Comments
Tom Cruise is in early talks for the lead in Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E, according to Deadline. The spy thriller has spent years in development hell, passing from Matthew Vaughn to David Dobkin and Steven Soderbergh before Ritchie signed on to direct in 2011. If Cruise signs on to the film, he’ll play […]
Continue readingThe (Pod) Casting Couch – Side Effects
March 18, 2013 0 Comments
Looking for a film podcast to whisper sweet cinematic nothings in your ear? Only one features Quickflix critics Simon Miraudo and Andrew Williams, as well as reviewers Shannon Harvey and Natasha Povey. That’d be The (Pod) Casting Couch, where each week the latest releases are analysed within an inch of their life, outrageous digressions are indulged, and flights of […]
Continue readingSexual nightmares and sleep crime – Side Effects review
March 11, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 11, 2013 Steven Soderbergh‘s Side Effects begins as one thing, and then ends as something else entirely. Over the course of its 106 minutes, the feature evolves from an icy, haunting tale of depression and abandonment into a squalid, sordid, serpentine Alfred Hitchcock pastiche. That it can glide from these two […]
Continue readingContagion sequel might mutate into TV series
February 4, 2013 0 Comments
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 […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Side Effects
November 5, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s latest pharmaceutical thriller, Side Effects, has arrived online. Though the teaser is largely ambiguous, from what we know of the picture, Rooney Mara stars as the wife of a convict (Channing Tatum) who develops a drug dependency in the lead-up to his release. Written by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion), Side Effects may well end up Soderbergh’s last […]
Continue readingMagic Mike sequel might be a road movie
September 14, 2012 0 Comments
Channing Tatum fans are rejoicing as the buff star recently revealed that a Magic Mike sequel could be on the cards. In a European interview reported on The Playlist, Tatum spoke of the sequel potentially taking the form of a road movie. Currently working on a Broadway adaptation of Magic Mike with writing partner Reid […]
Continue readingBody work – Magic Mike review
July 24, 2012 0 Comments
Magic Mike – Starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. There was once a time when I referred to Channing Tatum as a “human hatstand,” so unimpressed I was with his lumbering screen presence and seeming lack of personality. There was also a time when […]
Continue readingTinker tailor Soderbergh spy – Haywire review
July 24, 2012 2 Comments
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 readingMagic Mike headed to Broadway
June 27, 2012 0 Comments
Steve Soderbergh‘s male stripper flick Magic Mike might be headed to the Great White Way. Producer and screenwriter Reid Carolin has told USA Today of plans to turn it into a Broadway show. “[It] would be a different story, more of a romp, more of a fun night out at a club with a story. I’m almost more […]
Continue readingZach Galifianakis to star in A Confederacy of Dunces
May 23, 2012 0 Comments
Zach Galifianakis is set to star in the long-gestating adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces, Vulture reports. Galifianakis would play Ignatius J. Reilly, a disgusting, condescending perennial scholar who works hard to avoid working and lives in New Orleans with his mother. The Muppets‘ helmer James Bobin is in negotiations to direct the […]
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 readingTrailer Debut: Magic Mike
April 19, 2012 0 Comments
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived! The trailer for Steven Soderbergh‘s Magic Mike has slid down the stripper pole and into our laps. The film stars Channing Tatum as Mike, and is based on his own experiences as a male stripper prior to becoming a film star. Alex Pettyfer joins him as his protégé, […]
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 readingGuy Ritchie set to direct The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
December 9, 2011 0 Comments
Warner Bros is courting Guy Ritchie to direct the film adaptation of 60s spy show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., following the exit of Steven Soderbergh last month. Ritchie has worked with WB on two Sherlock Holmes films. According to Deadline, the studio is after his new producing partner Lionel Wigram too. It is unknown if Scott Z. […]
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 readingSteven Soderbergh abandons The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
November 18, 2011 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s retirement date just got a little bit closer. The director has reportedly walked away from Warner Bros’ film adaptation of the 1960s spy show The Man From U.N.C.L.E. According to Indiewire, his decision was the result of WB’s indecisiveness and what he believed to be a lack of commitment to the project. George […]
Continue readingBrad Pitt wants to retire from acting in three years
November 16, 2011 0 Comments
Brad Pitt has revealed to Australian 60 Minutes his intention to retire from acting in three years time, coinciding with his fiftieth birthday. Pitt delivered the deadline when he was asked how much longer he would want to do his “business” for. When pressed for details on his post-retirement plans, Pitt responded thusly. “Hell if […]
Continue readingIs Channing Tatum the new Man From U.N.C.L.E.?
November 16, 2011 0 Comments
Following the exit of Bradley Cooper, Steven Soderbergh is reportedly courting his Magic Mike star (and inspiration!) Channing Tatum to take over the lead role in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. According to Deadline, there is no official offer on the table just yet for Tatum to play superspy Napoleon Solo. Last week it was revealed Joel […]
Continue readingBradley Cooper will not be The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
November 11, 2011 3 Comments
Bradley Cooper has decided not to star as American spy Nathaniel Napoleon Solo in Steven Soderbergh‘s film adaptation of the classic show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Wrap reports. It was believed Cooper was waiting to find out who would play his Russian offsider Illya Kuryakin, before officially signing on. Joel Edgerton was reportedly in talks […]
Continue readingThe great game – Moneyball review
November 10, 2011 2 Comments
Moneyball – Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by Bennett Miller. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Bennet Miller‘s Moneyball is an underdog tale, both on the screen and behind the scenes (but more on that later). It documents the struggle of the Oakland Athletics and their forward-thinking GM Billy Beane (Brad […]
Continue readingJoel Edgerton offered 300 spin-off and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
November 3, 2011 0 Comments
Everything’s coming up Edgerton! Vulture reports Warner Bros has offered Aussie Joel Edgerton lead roles in two major properties. The first is a starring role in their upcoming 300 spin-off, Battle of Artemisia. Edgerton is in talks to play Themosticles, “the famed archon and general who led the greeks to victory against the invading Persians […]
Continue readingJoss Whedon shot a Shakespeare adaptation while working on The Avengers
October 25, 2011 0 Comments
Taking a leaf from the book of super-prolific director Steven Soderbergh (who probably began and completed production of a film in the time it took you to finish this sentence), Joss Whedon has revealed he filmed an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing whilst working on The Avengers. Details were released via the […]
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 […]
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