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BLACK BAG – Review by Nadine Whitney

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David Koepp and Steven Soderbergh step into the world of British Intelligence with the spy thriller-romantic drama Black Bag. Starring Michael Fassbender as the cerebral George Woodhouse and Cate Blanchett as his glamourous and capable wife, Kathryn St. Jean: Black Bag is a winning combination of style and game playing reminiscent of John le Carré. The puzzles are plenty in Black Bag and the world of these fundamentally untrustworthy people in charge of a shadow milieu that goes beyond conventional politics and morals is a blast to inhabit. Black Bag proves Soderbergh has a lot of juice left in his genre game and it invites the audience to play with him. Go to the party.

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PRESENCE – Review by Susan Granger

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What do you call a ghost story that can’t even conjure up a few scares? Presence, Steven Soderbergh’s recent attempt at a horror movie. His puzzling plot begins as an upper-middle class family inspects an old house in leafy suburbia. The location – a.k.a. school district – is exactly what they want – and they’re the first potential buyers, according to Cece (Julia Fox), their eager real estate agent.

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PRESENCE – Review by Nadine Whitney

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Steven Soderbergh’s Presence captures a new point of view in a horror-adjacent film. Instead of seeing through the eyes of the family living in the ‘haunted’ house at the centre of the film, we see through the perspective of the ‘presence’ as it tries to understand its purpose and who the people are it is haunting. Shot by Soderbergh (using a pseudonym) with a Sony A7, and having only approximately thirty cuts, Presence is another of Soderbergh’s “experiments” with cinematic form like Unsane where the process and the result are equally fascinating.

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News 

WEEK IN WOMEN: Kathryn Bigelow to direct AURORA – Brandy McDonnell reports

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Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow is directing a feature film adaptation of Aurora for Netflix. The film will be based on David Koepp’s upcoming novel, to be published June 7 by HarperCollins. The story follows characters who are coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis.

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