Matt Damon in The Informant!By Hap ErsteinOscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh is like a box of chocolates. You’re never sure what you are going to get. His recent releases -- the epic political biography Che and the low-budget independent art film on the world of call girls, The Girlfriend Experience -- have virtually nothing in common with his newest film, The Informant!, … [Read more...]
Film review: ‘Girlfriend’ an intense look at way we live now
Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience.By John ThomasonNo film better describes the world we live in right now than Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience.The film is almost designed to be a time-capsule artifact, a vivisection of America in late 2008, ready to be unearthed and dissected in some future economics, political science or cinema studies course (because The … [Read more...]