Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects scheduled to hit the screens in 2013 is centered on unfortunate woman Emily Hawkins who is waiting for her husband to be released from a prison. As the release time comes closer, Emily is showing more signs of anxiety. This anxiety leads to serious psychological issues and Emily takes psychologist consultations. The doctor prescribes a new drug to heal her troubled mind – a brand new wonder of modern pharmaceutical industry. The pills help Emily but incredibly effective medication shows its side effects. Now the issues caused by the pills seem to be much more threatening than initial Emily's troubles. Previously named The Better Pills, Side Effects isn't the first Steven Soderbergh's movie project in the field of "applied psychotechnics", just remember his We Need to Talk About Kevin and Playground; neither for Rooney Mara who plays the leading role in Side Effects, her remarkable roles in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network have showed a great potential of this brilliant actress. The rest of the cast ensemble is awesome too: Channing Tatum, Vinessa Shaw, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Costabile and Mamie Gummer – not every movie can boast such a set of great actors gathered in single project.

Directed by Gus Van Sant and featuring Matt Damon in the leading role, Promised Land centers on the ace of the oil industry, Steve Butler, a corporate salesman, who is sent to rural American town to secure the drilling rights of his company to tap into the local resources. The town is going thru an uneasy times after the world financial crisis, and, in these times, the establishing the office and production platforms could be in-need for the locals, especially considering the buying drilling rights from local authorities. However, what seemed as easy procedure at the first look, turned to uneasy challenge for Steve. Now he has to rethink all of his beliefs and approaches to life. The movie is a subject of criticism concerning the facts that the major sponsor of its production is Abu Dhabi Media, which is totally owned by United Arab Emirates. It's believed that due to this sponsorship, the film puts shale fracking being described in the movie in a bad light, as it significantly increased the oil-producing capabilities of USA and reduced the oil import from UAE. Nevertheless, Promised Land allows us to enjoy brilliant play of Matt Damon, which is considered to be as "top-level" as it was in The Adjustment Bureau, True Grit and The Informant!

Somewhere is a movie that chronicles the life of actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), who was well known for his long stay in Hollywood's famous Chateau Marmont hotel and the endless stream of sexy women and drugs that stayed there with him. As he coasts through life while driving his Ferrari and partying hard he receives an unexpected surprise. His 11 year old daughter Chloe ends up at his hotel room door to get to know her dad. After spending some time with Chloe, Johnny is motivated to change the path his life is taking and clean up his act. Can Johnny finally do the right thing and be a good father to Chloe or does he do what he is best known for? Somewhere is a dramatic story about how a daughter can inspire a father to do the right thing.

"Oslo" is a 2021 drama film directed by Bartlett Sher and based on the Tony Award-winning play of the same name by J.T. Rogers. The movie follows the true story of the secret negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders that led to the historic Oslo Accords in 1993. The film stars Andrew Scott and Ruth Wilson as the Norwegian diplomats who orchestrated the talks, with supporting roles from Jeff Wilbusch, Salim Dau, and Waleed Zuaiter.

Never Let Me Go is a 2010 drama film based on recognized all over the world novel of the same name written by Kazuo Ishiguro. Although the novel features some elements of science fiction, it is not positioned as a sci-fi book. Movie centers on the memories of Kathy, a young woman about 30 years, the film showcases her childhood in an unusual boarding school and subsequent adult life. The action takes place in the UK anti-Utopical end of XX century, in which people are cloned in purpose to create the donor organs for transplantation. Kathy and her friends at boarding school are set up as such donors. Prior to becoming a donor, they are all within a longer or shorter working time "helpers", caring and supporting those who have become donors. As in the Ishiguro's book, the truth does not become immediately clear, but disclosed gradually, through the weird hints.

Brothers is a film of halftones, notes on the margins, where the beauty is in the Details. But, like many other such intricate work, the film seemed not over: cut off in mid-sentence. The brothers conflict ends with the simple phrase. Sam's internal conflict, the break of conscience after capture in Afghanistan is just honesty. From this point of view Brothers are perceived only a demonstration of acting, the spectacular, of course, but still remaining essentially "the casting". Psychological observations, the reliability of the details and fine texture of the characters are the wonderful elements of the movie, but really outstanding masterpieces are crowned with the point, not the dots.