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Sound on Sight Podcast Rewind: #304: Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Haywire’ and ‘Contagion’
No year is complete without at least one new Soderbergh vehicle, and despite his proclaimed status of sorta-retirement, 2012 will bring two of them; the first is the Gina Carano-powered actioner Haywire, which reteams him with Limey / Kafka scribe Lem Dobbs. (We’ll have to wait a little longer for his “Channing Tatum, Male Stripper” flick Magic Mike.) The whole gang is here to dissect the surprisingly divisive thriller, along with one that slipped through the SOS cracks last year, Contagion.
Sound on Sight PODCAST #314: ’21 Jump Steet’ and ‘Battle Royale’ vs. ‘ Hunger Games’ pt. 2
With March almost over, it seems as good a time as any to check in on our cinematic 2012 and start to weigh the few films of worth we’ve seen. Simon, Ricky, Justine and Julian ponder the question, re-open the Hunger Games / Battle Royale debate, and also review an unlknely SOS favorite, the Jonah Hill / Channing Tatum buddy-cop comedy 21 Jump Street, in full, glorious, spoiler-filled detail. You’ve been warned.
Sound on Sight PODCAST #326: ‘Magic Mike’ and ‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape’
With the release of Channing Tatum Stripper Movie, aka Magic Mike, we take another look at director Steven Soderbergh, whose filmography is among the most diverse in American cinematic history. Ricky, Julian, and Simon tackle the new flick, as well as taking a look back at Soderbergh’s first feature, the pioneering 1989 American indie Sex, Lies and Videotape.
Sound on Sight Podcast #326: ‘Magic Mike’ and ‘Sex-Lies and Videotape’
With the release of Channing Tatum Stripper Movie, aka Magic Mike, we take another look at director Steven Soderbergh, whose filmography is among the most diverse in American cinematic history. Ricky, Julian, and Simon tackle the new flick, as well as taking a look back at Soderbergh’s first feature, the pioneering 1989 American indie Sex, Lies and Videotape.
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‘Magic Mike’ finds Soderbergh in typically expert form, despite the subject matter
Magic Mike
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Reid Carolin
USA, 2012
When does Steven Soderbergh sleep? Is it possible that he stays awake all day long? How else to explain the inexplicable speed with which he makes movies? Last September, Soderbergh had the big-budget film Contagion open to decent box office and acclaim. This January, he released the excellent, gritty actioner Haywire. Now, he’s behind the camera for Magic Mike, a drama focusing on male strippers in Tampa, Florida, because why the hell not? Based in part on the life experiences of Channing Tatum, who stars in and co-produced the film, Magic Mike is surprisingly assured and entertaining – only if Steven Soderbergh cranking out another expertly made film qualifies as surprising.
Tatum plays Mike, known as Magic Mike at Xquisite, a local strip club where he’s worked nights for six years while starting up various would-be legitimate businesses during the day. As the story (written by Reid Carolin) begins, Mike finds a fresh new talent in a slacker teen named Adam (Alex Pettyfer), who turned down a college football scholarship to mooch off the goodwill of his sister, Brooke (Cody Horn). Though Adam is initially taken aback by Xquisite, he soon gets a taste for stripping. More specifically, he gets a taste for the good life that comes with stripping: cash, beautiful women, drugs, and more. Mike, meanwhile, begins a tentative friendship with Brooke, and questions whether he wants to strip for his entire life, or follow his dream of making custom furniture.
‘Magic Mike’ Trailer: Channing Tatum Takes It Off
As prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh threatens us with retirement, every film he directs will be cherished even more so with hopes that he’ll change his mind and continue with his filmmaker career. Magic Mike is supposedly based on Channing Tatum’s own early life story when he worked as a male stripper. The cast is great, and apart from Tatum it includes Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, Olivia Munn and Matt Bomer. Either Magic Mike will be a box office success or a box office bomb, but I’m betting on the former, not the latter result.
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2012′s Great Movie Moments: March - the best scenes of movies released last month
At the end of each month, the Sound On Sight staff will band together to write an article about their favourite scenes in films released. Here are our favourite scenes from the month of February.
Click here to see January’s releases
Click here to see February’s releases
Wanderlust – Rudd vs. the mirror
David Wain’s Wanderlust may not turn out to even be one of the 10 best comedies of 2012, but it sure goes a long way to re-establishing Paul Rudd’s comedic bona fides. In a stunningly funny scene, Rudd’s character, George, is about to break his marital vows (with his wife Jennifer Aniston’s blessing) with a beautiful, willing fellow commune resident (Malin Akerman) – but he’s awfully nervous. To work up the nerve, he gives himself a filthy, ultimately nonsensical pep talk that, in all seriousness, rivals the pivotal montage from 25th Hour as the best cinematic use of a self-addressed monologue in recent memory. The only downside: it’s not nearly long enough.
I swear this was a fun show ….
Sound on Sight Podcast #314: ’21 Jump Steet’ and ‘Battle Royale vs. ‘ Hunger Games’ pt. 2
With March almost over, it seems as good a time as any to check in on our cinematic 2012 and start to weigh the few films of worth we’ve seen. Simon, Ricky, Justine and Julian ponder the question, re-open the Hunger Games / Battle Royale debate, and also review an unlinely SOS favorite, the Jonah Hill / Channing Tatum buddy-cop comedy 21 Jump Street, in full, glorious, spoiler-filled detail. You’ve been warned.
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