Black Bag (2025)

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Wikidata Q124373035, film, IMDb tt30988739, TMDB 1233575: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Steven Soderbergh as director (‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best …).

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Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

A Minecraft Movie: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (streaming vs theatrical): Black Bag → A Minecraft Movie. Movies like Black Bag go to streaming; Minecraft or Sonic are needed to revive theaters.
    “appetites lost interest in going out to a movie theater for a movie like Black Bag”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:40:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Everything Everywhere All at Once: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (early-year prestige): Everything Everywhere All at Once → Black Bag. Prestige movies now release earlier; Everything Everywhere premiered at SXSW in spring.
    “everything ever all at once, for example, was like a south by southwest premiering”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:23:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

How to Train Your Dragon (live action): 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (studio dependency): Black Bag → How to Train Your Dragon (live action). Universal needs Dragon to hit so it can afford more Black Bag-type movies.
    “Universal needs how to train your dragon to be a big hit so that we can get more black back.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:58:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Ocean's Eleven: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (Soderbergh structure): Black Bag → Ocean's Eleven. Black Bag has the Ocean's 11 flashback, putting-the-pieces-together payoff.
    “it does have that like Soderberg, Ocean's 11, had it all, you know, flashback, putting the pieces together, which is so satisfying”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:55:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Pierce Brosnan: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (cast): Black Bag → Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan's reveal was a bit transparent.
    “I don't know whether it was like the most naughty and thus satisfying plot-wise conclusion with respect to Pierce Brosnan”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:56:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Steven Soderbergh: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (directed by): Black Bag → Steven Soderbergh. Black Bag is Soderbergh's second feature this year.
    “This is Steven Soderberg's 2nd feature film this year.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:54:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The Good German: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (Soderbergh exercise): Black Bag → The Good German. Soderbergh is the king of the exercise; The Good German is an earlier, reclaimed exercise film.
    “the movie that is being reclaimed of his right now and is being released on 4K is a good German.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:56:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

Vincent Price: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (tell-tale casting): Black Bag → Vincent Price. Brosnan and Page show their hand early, like seeing Vincent Price in a movie and knowing he will do bad things.
    “sometimes you're watching a Vincent Price movie and you're like, well, Vincent Price is in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:58:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (Soderbergh structure): Black Bag → Ocean's Eleven. Black Bag has the Ocean's 11 flashback, putting-the-pieces-together payoff.
    “it does have that like Soderberg, Ocean's 11, had it all, you know, flashback, putting the pieces together, which is so satisfying”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:55:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (streaming vs theatrical): Black Bag → A Minecraft Movie. Movies like Black Bag go to streaming; Minecraft or Sonic are needed to revive theaters.
    “appetites lost interest in going out to a movie theater for a movie like Black Bag”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:40:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. industry (studio dependency): Black Bag → How to Train Your Dragon (live action). Universal needs Dragon to hit so it can afford more Black Bag-type movies.
    “Universal needs how to train your dragon to be a big hit so that we can get more black back.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:58:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (directed by): Black Bag → Steven Soderbergh. Black Bag is Soderbergh's second feature this year.
    “This is Steven Soderberg's 2nd feature film this year.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:54:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (cast): Black Bag → Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan's reveal was a bit transparent.
    “I don't know whether it was like the most naughty and thus satisfying plot-wise conclusion with respect to Pierce Brosnan”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:56:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (tell-tale casting): Black Bag → Vincent Price. Brosnan and Page show their hand early, like seeing Vincent Price in a movie and knowing he will do bad things.
    “sometimes you're watching a Vincent Price movie and you're like, well, Vincent Price is in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:58:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (early-year prestige): Everything Everywhere All at Once → Black Bag. Prestige movies now release earlier; Everything Everywhere premiered at SXSW in spring.
    “everything ever all at once, for example, was like a south by southwest premiering”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:23:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (Soderbergh exercise): Black Bag → The Good German. Soderbergh is the king of the exercise; The Good German is an earlier, reclaimed exercise film.
    “the movie that is being reclaimed of his right now and is being released on 4K is a good German.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:56:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Black Bag: The lie detector sequence is called absolutely elite filmmaking, acting and editing, and very funny.
    “That entire sequence is just absolutely elite filmmaking, acting, editing, very funny.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:55:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Black Bag: Casting a particular actress as the coder/satellite tech expert is still the funniest thing that's ever happened.
    “By the way, just casting her as the coder is still the funniest thing that's ever happened.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:57:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Black Bag: Sean's reading: a great movie about marriage, and a romantic one; the murder mystery ending is yada yada.
    “I think this is a great movie about marriage.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:58:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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