Writer/director Eddie Alcazar latest sci-fi vision, Divinity, had its Texas premiere at Fantastic Fest. Set in an interesting retro-futuristic world full of surreal oddity, the film is a visually stunning slow burn that lightly explores its themes, resulting in an experience that pleases the eye, but can’t quite engage the mind or forge an emotional connection.
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Steven Soderbergh returns with No Sudden Move, an exceptionally well-crafted throwback noir that boasts his sharpest ensemble cast to date. Written by Ed Solomon (one half of the screenwriting team that gave us the Bill & Ted trilogy) and gorgeously lensed by Soderbergh himself, No Sudden Move marks his tightest film (in our opinion) since 2000’s Traffic. This ain’t nothing to sleep on!
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Hollywood hatchet man Steven Soderbergh emerges from a brief hiatus ("retirement" seems too strong a word) with the southern fried heist film Logan Lucky, which feels like a mixture of Ocean's Eleven and The Dukes Of Hazzard. The film is star-studded and packed a little too full. Mostly, it's a mildly funny satirical caricature of the south wrapped as a heist film with far too many moving parts to completely keep up with or care about.
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