Posts Tagged ‘steven soderbergh’
Films Opening This Weekend
This weekend's film openings promise something for everyone—action movie buffs, the kiddies, and lovers of French and independent film.
- Terminator Salvation: "I'll be back... again and again and again..." And again. Yep, Warner Bros. thought a fourth film about post-apocalyptic crusading cyborgs would be perfect for summer 2009. This time around, it's 2018 and Edward Furlong's John Connor has matured into resistance-leader Christian Bale. Helena Bonham Carter makes an appearance and Common joins the quest to rally nuclear holocaust survivors and save the world.
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: Lovable night guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is back, this time a successful inventor who returns to his old post at New York's Museum of Natural History where the curator, played to perfection by Ricky Gervais, tells him that many of the old exhibits are being shipped to the Smithsonian, for storage or destruction. Daley races to D.C. where he's joined by Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams)—and eventually everyone in the Air and Space Museum—on a heartwarming journey to save old friends and defeat the evil Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria).
Who is “Che”? Soderbergh Hasn’t Got a Clue
Before Shepard Fairey wheatpasted Obama's portrait to walls, windows and the backs of those pushy midwesterners blocking your view of the jumbotron Tuesday afternoon, Alberto Korda's 1960 portrait of Ernesto "Che" Guevara was the most ubiquitous piece of hagiography to infiltrate the closets of American youth. Unlike Fairey's Obama, however, the very mass re-production and clueless consumption of Che's visage shows that 41 years postmortem, the man's ideas are as forgotten as they are exalted.
Add to this two dimensional T-shirt portrait yet another flat depiction of the face of the Cuban revolution—Steven Soderbergh's epic, two-part, 4-hour-and-23-minute biopic Che.
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Cleopatra, Rockin’ at Last
For those of you who have been wondering when the hell someone would make a rock musical about Cleopatra -- and I imagine you're legion -- Steven Soderbergh has heard your cries.
The director is still looking for financing for Cleo, which will star Catherine Zeta-Jones and Hugh Jackman and feature music from Guided by Voices.
The best part? It's going to be in 3D. I'm guessing by the time this gets off the ground, Hannah Montana fans will be old enough to appreciate a little history with their OMG-it's-like-I'm-totally-there! music flicks.
