As described on its official site, “Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.” Dripping with generous tastes of Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot, the film has been described by The Guardian as, “a gripping psychological thriller about big pharma and mental health that cruelly leaves you craving one last fix.” Now, you can win one of five copies of Side Effects if you are one of the first to […]
by Billy Brennan on May 16, 2013Side Effects Open Road – May 21 Perhaps Steven Soderbergh’s swan song as a theatrically distributed director (his Liberace biopic with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon will premiere on HBO this spring), Side Effects is a masterfully made noir thriller, although one that, at least initially, obscures its genre coding by deploying a setup that has “mental illness TV movie of the week” written all over it. Rooney Mara is a depressed, downwardly mobile young woman whose formerly high-rolling financier husband (Channing Tatum) went to jail for insider trading. When she goes on some new antipsychotic for her clinical depression […]
by Brandon Harris on Apr 23, 2013