Steven Soderbergh’s supposedly final film may cause drowsiness, acute eye rolling, and watch-checking.

Never has a bowl of peanuts been so portentous. Director Steven Soderbergh lets his camera linger over a bowl of airport bar peanuts after a coughing, sniffling Gwyneth Paltrow leaves the frame, and the message is clear: the next person to reach into that bowl is getting more than a snack.

The week in film around D.C., including Steven Soderbergh on Spalding Gray, a DC Shorts retrospective, influential ’70s science fiction and more.

Most people would probably look at the story of Mark Whitacre, the Archer Daniels Midland executive who donned a wire for the FBI in the early ’90s and became the most famous (and highest ranking) corporate whistleblower in history, and see it as a tragedy. Between what it has to say about willful corporate corruption as well as about the ravages of mental illness, a film treatment of Whitacre’s story could have easily been…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Shallow Grave Danny Boyle’s award season joyride, courtesy Slumdog Millionaire, has landed him an AFI retrospective of all of the director’s films, and this week the theater screens his 1994 feature debut. The movie introduced not only Boyle to the world, but also Ewan McGregor, who made the leap from British television and bit movie parts…

Benicio del Toro as Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh’s Che. It’s difficult to imagine a figure more polarizing than the subject of Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious new biopic. Mention the name Che Guevara, or flash a picture of one of the endless variations on Alberto Korda’s iconic image of the revolutionary leader, and you’re bound to get an earful. But most reactions are of the knee-jerk variety, and are based more on reputation than history….

This piece was written by DCist contributor Cynthia Rockwell. Sure, you could bask in the seasonal spirit and check out the classics this weekend, but if you’re looking to escape the incessant holiday cheer, here are a few ideas for cinematic diversion: >>Attention Cate Blanchett fans, we have not one but two films starring the willowy beauty opening this week. First is the slick black-and-white espionage thriller The Good German, Steven Soderbergh’s homage to film…