The Informant Opens Today

It always promises to be a good weekend when my favorite director has a movie opening. His latest promises to mix his trademark cinematic style with my new favorite subject matter of late - corporate criminals. The Informant tells the true story of Mark Whitacre, a top executive at the Archer Daniels Midland, who blows the whistle on his company's price-fixing only to turn around and committ some white collar crime himself. Hilarity ensued - at least in Steven Soderbergh's version, it does.

Of course, I'll have to see Ocean's 13

Every few years, Steven Soderbergh takes a break from his cinematic experiments (which seem to receive equal amounts of love and hate) to convince a major Hollywood studio to send him and his friends on an all-expenses vacation. During that time, they kind of make a fun movie. For Ocean's 12, Soderbergh and his posse of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and the rest, jetted off to Europe. The resulting film featured some lovely cinematography, as well as some subtle and not so subtle avant garde experimentation, proving it wasn't your typical Hollywood schtick. Is an Ocean's 13 really necessary? Probably not. But I'm not going to stop Soderbergh from having a good time and subverting Hollywood formats by any means necessary. Check out the trailer and decide for yourself. All original 11 crew members are back, along with Andy Garcia. No Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta-Jones this time, but you do have Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino.