Dave, Adam, and Devindra discuss why Flight is a failure, explain why Community is a shell of its former self, and list their most anticipated films of 2013. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: SHOWNOTES What We've Been…
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As Steven Soderbergh hurtles toward retirement, he's dropping one last theatrical feature. (He also has the HBO movie Behind the Candelabra, but that's not hitting cinemas.) In Side Effects, Rooney Mara plays a woman dealing with her husband's (Channing Tatum) imminent release from prison. To help her cope with her anxiety, her psychiatrist (Jude Law)…
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Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns have spent the last couple years making genre films with prestige casts to explore modern anxieties in a unique manner. The Informant! tackled fears of impotence and mediocrity through the story of a guy who envisions himself as a powerful insder agent. Contagion charted paranoia about the ever-closer…
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2012 saw a couple of high-profile fairy tale releases, but the trend is really just getting started. 2013 has a couple such titles due out in just the first three months, including Tommy Wirkola's Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters in January and Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer in March. Of course, that's not to say there aren't…
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Steven Soderbergh's retirement may be imminent, but over the past couple of years he's been busy as ever. Where most directors might've opened one film between 2011 and 2012, he's released three: Contagion, Haywire, and Magic Mike. Now, for his final (at least for now) act, he has the thriller Side Effects due out early…
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Steven Soderberg is prepping a movie called Side Effects, a film that he plans to shoot this spring and which will be one of his last two movies. The project ran into a snag recently when financier Megan Ellison and her Annapurna Pictures started to pull away. Part of the problem with the deal was…
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There are some changes going on with Steven Soderbergh's planned film Side Effects. The past couple months have seen reports of Soderbergh ditching The Man From UNCLE and taking up the Side Effects script by UNCLE and Contagion screenwriter Scott Z. Burns. In the past couple weeks there have been reports that Megan Ellison's Annapurna…
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