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After a few epic-size Hollywood films (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven), director Steven Soderbergh has gone small. Full Frontal, his terrific new movie, is intimate and innovative. It boasts rules of Dogma-like rigor: the budget was $2 million; the shoot took just three weeks; most of it was photographed (by the director) on video; the stars were responsible for their own makeup; no limos or trailers were allowed. He also constructed a Chinese box of a film-within-a-film-within-a-film. The result is his liveliest experiment since the strenuously weird Schizopolis six years...
...Steven Spielberg--who also shows up in Goldmember. Men in Black II enlists Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart--aha, they are aliens! In Mr. Deeds, Al Sharpton delivers a rappin' elegy and John McEnroe teaches Adam Sandler how to (mis)behave in New York City. Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal features bits by Brad Pitt and his Se7en director David Fincher...
...Continent's cultural diversity makes it hard to turn a profit on other homegrown programming; the lack of an export market to recoup costs doesn't help. Pornography, the quiet cash cow of the U.S. cable industry, is not as much of a draw in countries where full-frontal nudity is routinely shown on free...
...with a tricolor mohawk, setting off a trend picked up by Turkey's Umit Davala and the U.S.'s Clint Mathis. Ziege had the good sense to shave it off after a couple of games?the others didn't. Dishonorable Mention: Brazilian Ronaldo's new tufted frontal-lobe look, as gauche as his silver boots...
...unassuming but endearing indie comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding has found an audience, with minimal advertising and generous word of mouth. And Miramax is betting against the glut of blockbusters with four art-house movies this summer, including Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Full Frontal, director Steven Soderbergh's star-studded but extremely arty movie set for release Aug. 2. "The premise behind releasing all these is, there's nothing for my mother and my friends to see in the summer," says Mark Gill, president of Miramax L.A. "They're not going...