Steven Soderbergh Archive
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‘Foxcatcher’: Wrestling with tough characters
Posted on November 13, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com When I saw Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” at the Toronto Film Festival in September, I wrote that “Miller, in my estimation, has jumped into the class of Steven Soderbergh and […] -
‘World War Z,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on June 21, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Ahhh yes, the zombie apocalypse – that moment when the dead rise and, by biting the living, turn them into zombies as well. Some theorize that Patient Zero was […] -
Hollywood and the death of originality
Posted on June 17, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com This was originally going to be a piece about how wrong it was for Will Smith to remake “The Wild Bunch.” But that metastasized into an idea about remakes […] -
‘Red Flag,’ ‘Rubberneck,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com It’s rare that a filmmaker has more than one film out in a single year, unless they’re either making both features and documentaries – or they’re Steven Soderbergh. But […] -
‘Side Effects,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on February 5, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Dear Steven Soderbergh: Please don’t stop making movies. Your name is high on the list of filmmakers whose careers I’m thankful have coincided with my career as a movie […] -
‘Side by Side,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com “Side by Side” should be required viewing in any film school worth its salt and, undoubtedly, will be. But as up-to-the-minute as it is, by next year, it undoubtedly […] -
‘Perfect Sense,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on February 2, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com David Mackenzie’s “Perfect Sense” is an end-of-the-world romance in which the world disappears incrementally. Being involved in this velvet apocalypse is a little like being the Cheshire cat, unable […] -
‘Haywire,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on January 16, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com I don’t know whether Gina Carano has a future as an actress but she certainly kicks ass in Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire,” a jet-propelled action-thriller that has little time for […]