Incredibly well-acted and stylistically directed, but ultimately The Laundromat ends up trying too hard to be provocative with its political message than it does entertaining.

The Laundromat is Netflix’s upcoming drama that draws its inspiration from the 2015 Panama Papers leak. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Meryl Streep stars as an elderly widow digging into a fake insurance policy she unwittingly purchased. Her dogged investigation eventually leads her to the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca and its charismatic founders, Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca (Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas respectively).

The longer you live on earth, the more humanity disappoints you. Just when you think people couldn’t get any more corrupt or despicable, someone somewhere, most often in a high-powered position, finds a way of proving correct the phrase that power corrupts and you are left feeling sick in your mouth at where we are headed as a species.  Thankfully …

Netflix secures yet another big director whose movies will now make their way to their streaming service. Could this be a sign of things to come for the future?

It was only a matter of time before a top Hollywood director looked into making a movie about the biggest data leak in history.