It's kind of funny how easily the reptile part of the brain can take over. It makes us do odd things, makes us fixate on the things that make our nether regions tingle, to the exclusion of all else. Makes us so focused - for example - on a certain Oscar-winning director casting a porn star in one feature that we cmpletely miss the fact that he's working on another one as well, this one starring an actor with more than a little bit of awards hardware on his shelf at home. A well ... I guess I just don't find Matt Damon as attractive as Sasha Grey. Such is life.

The director, of course, is Steven Soderbergh, and the film - the new one - is The Informant!, a based- on-a-true-story tale of quite possible the least competent corporate whistle-blower in the history of ever. i can't help but feel that the Coen Brothers stole a little bit of the stylistic thunder on this one with Burn After Reading but Damon looks fantastic in it - as, bizarrely enough, does Scott Bakula - and I got more than one good laugh out of it when I caught it screening before Public Enemies. And, yep, it's online now so I rather suggest checking it out.