Ster-Kinekor Home Entertainment - Take one award-winning director and a host of stars that shine fairly brightly in the Hollywood firmament and you'd expect a movie of Oscar calibre. Or something that's at least watchable.
But Steven Soderbergh, the man behind sex, lies and videotape, Traffic and Erin Brockovich, seems intent on boring his audience to death.
He's gathered together a whole passel of celebs - Julia Roberts, David Hyde Pierce, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny, Blair Underwood and, fleetingly, Brad Pitt - and lets them blather on. And on.
There is a loose storyline. Gus, a director, is holding a birthday party to which the stars of his latest movie (Julia and Blair), the screenwriter, the screenwriter's wife, the screenwriter's partner and a bunch of other movie types are invited. Full Frontal follows their activities - and assignations - on the day of the big party.
Soderbergh also employs the old movie-within-a-movie trick, but the "fictional" movie turns out to be just as bad as the "real" one. So you get two boring movies for the price of one.
If this is meant to be an exposé of Hollywood culture, I wish they'd kept it hidden. For masochists only.