Has Steven Soderbergh gone barking mad? We know the director of Oscar winners (
Traffic, Erin Brockovich) and box-office cash cows (
Ocean's 11 and
12) likes to experiment. His 1989 debut with
sex, lies and videotape was a low-budget high-wire act that paid off big time. But audiences and some critics hung him out to dry when he went too arty and out-there for them with
Kafka, Schizopolis, Full Frontal and
Solaris, which sank like a stone even with the star presence of his frequent