The Limey News

Warren Clements Published on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 12:22PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

'Have you seen what he made for me?" Steven Soderbergh's wife, writer Jules Asner, has just returned to the couple's Los Angeles house and she's eager to show me her present.

Sorry for the lack of links recently. Things got a little screwy after my trip to Vancouver, but now that they're settling down I figured it was time to catch up on the link posting.

Matt Damon sets his eyes on the golden statuette in "The Informant!" Steven Soderbergh's new film "The Informant!" is a bizarre, perplexing mess.

Mark Whitacre's voiceover is about as unreliable as they come, thus eliminating the usual trappings, such as tedious over-exposition. His narration is more stream-of-consciousness than informational.

Remember the flashback in Natural Born Killers that replays family trauma as a literal sitcom, with canned laughs braying at the sickest moments and dad Rodney Dangerfield leering like Manson at Zanies? A similar strain of artificial levity seeps into Steven Soderbergh 's The Informant! like an airless funk.

The Informant! is director Steven Soderbergh's most entertaining and effective feature since 2001's Ocean's Eleven .

With some completed pics at the Toronto Film Festival still waiting for distribution offers, Lionsgate has scored domestic distribution rights to "Knockout," the next movie to be directed by Steven Soderbergh, who is at the festival to unveil his new film, "The Informant." Mandate will be handling international sales.

The Collective Wazoo: "The Informant!" Shortly before the start time of Friday's screening of "The Informant!" the film festival's Noah Cowan was waiting outside the Elgin Theater amidst a swirl of photographers, gawkers, gladhanders and people scrambling for a ticket.

With The Informant! due out soon, director Steven Soderbergh is lining up his next project.

The Hush-Hush News Report 9.8.09: A Lean Year At the Cinema? Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 09.08.2009 This week we take a look at the upcoming fall season and examine why some summer films might actually have a chance come Oscar time! Plus, news on Steven Soderbergh's movie with MMA star Gina Carano, Dimension Films possibly going under, an S&M Wizard ...

Steven Soderbergh's latest film The Informant! just premiered at the Venice Film Festival a few days ago and will open in wide release starting on September 18th, but the writer/director is already busy on his next project.A Variety reports Soderbergh will next direct the spy thriller Knockout which will also see the feature film debut of Gina ...

A greatly underutilized talent in features, this stage-trained actress has shone in numerous TV-movies, miniseries and music-oriented specials.

We can't be gaming all the time, despite our best efforts, and from time to time we'll actually take advantage of the movie-playing abilities on our gaming systems.

For the week of Sunday, July 26, through Saturday, Aug. 1. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

Turning 70 is something everyone will do. Hitting your 47th year as a consistently employed screen actor is not something many actors can do.

It's easy to forget that Steven Soderbergh has been making movies for more than twenty years.

Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh doesn't sound like he's doing too good. UK newspaper Guardian had a chance to talk with him recently, over the phone, and he sounds a bit depressed.

E! workhorse and acclaimed journalist Jules Asner was the guest on the current episode of the Adam Carolla podcast .

Few remember Steven Soderbergh's 1999 movie The Limey . It was quickly overshadowed by the director's much more heavily touted films which were soon to follow: Erin Brockovich , Traffic , and Ocean's Eleven .