Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, and Marion Cotillard star in Soderbergh’s prescient thriller about the social and political response to a global pandemic, made a decade before Covid.
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‘Steve Jobs’ on Netflix
Steve Jobs (2015) isn’t the usual big screen biopic. Ostensibly adapted from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography, Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay discards the familiar birth-to-death sweep to offer a triptych of snapshots of Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who became the face of the company over his stormy stewardship, driving innovation and driving out opposition. Apart from […]
‘Mildred Pierce’ – the miniseries on Amazon Prime and HBO Now
Mildred Pierce (2011) is less a remake than a new run at adapting the James M. Cain novel. Previously made into a Hollywood classic (which earned Joan Crawford her only Oscar), it’s been transformed into a five-hour mini-series by director Todd Haynes, who cast Kate Winslet in the title role as the mother blindly devoted […]