Following an extremely slow DVD release week last week, this week's columnists and Zack Kotzer take on a marginally less slow week with looks at Steven Soderbergh's Haywire , Ti West's The Innkeepers , and the unnecessary sequel/reimagining The Wicker Tree .
Director Steven Soderbergh takes on a deadly viral outbreak in his latest film, Contagion , with the same episodic story structure that he employed when he took on the war on drugs in Traffic . What this means is that Contagion is a very well made and often fascinating film that feels longer than it really is and it forgets about most of its characters at fairly inopportune times. The two films could really play side by side as a double bill of Soderbergh procedurals. They have almost the exact same strengths and the exact same faults.
