Steven Soderbergh may come out of retirement for new Channing Tatum movie

Posted 10 years ago

Prior to shooting 2013's SIDE EFFECTS, Steven Soderbergh said it would be his final feature film directorial effort, and although he's stayed busy since by helming the Cinemax's The Knick, serving as the cinematographer on MAGIC MIKE XXL, and executive...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Side Effects

Posted 11 years ago

Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was either...

Review: Side Effects

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A man comes home after four years of prison to find his wife suffering from an extreme bout of depression. When she goes on a new prescription drug to alleviate the symptoms, she quickly goes from bad to worse....

Could Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion become a TV series?

Posted 13 years ago

Steven Soderbergh‘s 2011 thriller CONTAGION was one of his better movies. It successfully translated the procedural nightmare of dealing with an epidemic while not sacrificing quality drama. Instead of making an action movie out of it like OUTBREAK, CONTAGION looked...

Steven Soderbergh clarifies what his stance on that whole retirement thing

Posted 13 years ago

Back in 2009 when asked by Esquire if he was going to make movies until his death, Steven Soderbergh gave this response: “I’m 45 now. When I turn 51, that’ll be 25 years. And that’s a lot of time to...

UK trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects with Rooney Mara and Jude Law finally makes the film look interesting

Posted 13 years ago

Threatening-to-retire director Steven Soderbergh‘s latest film, SIDE EFFECTS, starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, and Catherine Zeta-Jones didn’t do much for me on the first trailer.  I know it’s cliche to liken a film to looking like a made-for-cable...

These two posters for Jack the Giant Slayer and Side Effects respectively feature a big stone face and stellar promotional design

Posted 13 years ago

Two posters, two markedly different movies, two strangely accurate ways to tie these to films together.  A side effect of giant slaying can be death (and other such painful results), whilst the struggle to surmount the side effects of prescription...

Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Side Effects starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, and Jude Law hits

Posted 14 years ago

The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s thriller SIDE EFFECTS has hit, featuring Rooney Mara as a woman who turns to prescription drugs to cope with her husband’s (Channing Tatum) release from prison.  Naturally, things get crazy, spinning a web of...

Steven Soderbergh thriller The Bitter Pill picks up a release date

Posted 14 years ago

Once called THE SIDE EFFECTS and now called THE BITTER PILL, Steven Soderbergh’s next film has been at last penciled in for a release date. Starring Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, the Scott Z. Burns (CONTAGION)...