August Rush: a couple of quick recaps and we're done for the month!
If there's been radio silence it's because when I travel, I tend to concentrate more on the visit and the travel than on - yes, I know - writing about film. So, August resulted in only a couple of movies. Three, but Deadpool and Wolverine I'd seen and wrote up. The other two? Well, let's take a look. There's top tier Soderbergh and like everyone else, there's middle tier. Some of his more challenging works tend to miss the mark (think Bubble or even, to some degree The Girlfriend Experience and Contagion , though the latter two are among my favorites), while some of the big crowd pleasers might be a bit thin, but I'd argue remain fun. Ocean's Eleven is a respected near-classic, but the sequels are less well-regarded. I like 'em all but I might point out here that like the Coen brothers, even the lightest of Soderbergh's work still has something worthwhile and is - as far as I can recall off the top of my head, never (or if not "never"