Full Frontal (DVD)

'Everybody Needs A Release' Don't get me wrong; I love the work of Steven Sodebergh. Films like the magnificent Out Of Sight and The Limey are among my favourite films. Traffic and the great 'original' Oceans Eleven are also high on that list. This travesty of a Soderbergh movie is about as dull and as stuck up its own backside as cinema gets. Plot-wise, it's just a long meanandering stream of consciousness. The strange oddball characters that live in this weird Hollywood world are not the sort of people that you immediately empathize with. They are so self obsessed its really difficult to care about what they're up to - and that ain't much. I ...  Read the complete review

I went to see this movie with high hopes. The main reason was because it was directed by Steven Soderbergh (his "Traffic" is one of my favourite movies, but he also made "Erin Brokovitch", "Ocean’s Eleven"... quite a list), but it also had what looked like a great cast, and, having seen the trailer, I could tell it was a bit on the oddball side - always something that wins me over. But I found it a bit unsatisfactory – bit like a rehearsal actor’s workshop kind of thing, and we’re just eavesdropping. Which is probably how it’s supposed to feel, as it was filmed on DV, in just 18 days. Maybe it’s just an ironic gesture about films of ...  Read the complete review

A movie within a movie within a movie... Nicholas is a confident, up-and-coming black actor who is travelling to the location of his latest shoot - a David Fincher film in which he's working alongside Brad Pitt. Catherine is a journalist, following Nicholas around to get the inside story on his successes, his career, and his thoughts on the movie industry. There's a definite hint that there's more to their relationship than this, and just who is writing those unsigned love letters to Nicholas? But wait... Nicholas is also called Calvin, and Catherine is also Francesca. And is this film really called 'Full Frontal', or is it ...  Read the complete review