The Report (2019) - Movie Review

Much like how Steven Soderbergh couldn’t restrain himself to a single film this year, his frequent collaborator Scott Z. Burns appears to be in the same mode as, along with writing Soderbergh’s The Laundromat, he has stepped back into the director’s chair to do some even more scouring of conspiratorial secrets, this time involving the United States government and their involvement in torturing suspected terrorists in the wake of 9/11. Strap yourself in for some pretty ugly ruminations because, much like the film itself, I’m not going to be holding anything back.

The Laundromat (2019) - Movie Review

It’s Steven Soderbergh time again! Yep, not content with gracing NetFlix with merely a single feature this year, he’s made another one already. Soderbergh’s workhorse work ethic is one in the growing list of reasons why I bloody love this man’s work, as this isn’t even the first time he’s pulled a double-feature like this. In 2012, he released both the stripping economic dramedy Magic Mike and the action thriller Haywire. In 2013, he made the medical thriller Side Effects and the Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra, which were supposed to be his last films before retiring but… yeah, like a man with this much creative drive has it in him to just step away from a medium he clearly adores.