Another interesting curveball from Steven Soderbergh, who’s just ridiculously prolific these days. I mean, last year alone, he released The Girlfriend Experience, not one but two epic-length Che biopics and most recently, The Informant!. Though they all bear the director’s imprimatur, they otherwise couldn’t be more different films. In fact, The Informant! is kind of elusive itself; it starts out as one kind of movie and then reveals it’s been something altogether different all along. (And not by introducing some game-changing last-minute plot twist, either.)

A puffed-up, mustachioed Matt Damon plays Mark Whitacre, the real-life whistleblower who in the early ’90s alerted the FBI to a massive international price-fixing scheme surrounding the sale of lysine, an amino acid present in almost every industrial food product. Fearlessly and comically, he convinced the major players to out themselves either on tape or on camera. Soderbergh’s film starts out as a David vs. Goliath caper, but gradually pulls the rug out from under the whole set-up, in a way I won’t reveal. I will say, though, that the film’s old-school score by legendary composer Marvin Hamlisch, and Soderbergh’s masterful use of colour, make this a treat to watch. It’s now out on DVD and Blu-Ray.

What could reasonably be called my favourite movie of all time (on most days), Martin Scorsese’s brilliant gangster epic Goodfellas, has just been re-released on Blu-Ray in a nice package from Warners. Featuring a classy hardcover case and a photo-packed (if not terribly enlightening) booklet, the 20th Anniversary Edition includes the great extras from previous editions (commentaries, docs) and tacks on a bonus DVD with a full-length doc on classic gangster films and vintage cartoons.