“Presence,” a ghost story from director Steven Soderbergh, cuts it down to a single perspective. We, the viewers, are the camera, and the camera is the unseen spectral being that’s haunting ...

Steven Soderbergh's Presence is an effective, efficient throwback to classic suspenseful thrillers, centered around very modern themes, but with entirely fresh camera techniques. Soderbergh's ...

But this movie is mistakenly titled because if there is any evidence of the kind of presence either Mr. Koepp or Mr. Soderbergh is capable of, it is clearly nowhere to be seen in Presence.

Gauging from the height of the camera, the ghost is taller than a small child. It’s alone when the movie starts, pacing the film’s only set, a century-old house with a wrap-around porch that ...

Or rather, seen through the ghost’s POV; the director filmed the entire thing on a handheld camera himself which means we only see the things play out from the perspective of the Presence.

Given the current state of the film industry, where franchises and sequels seem to dominate the screens, securing funding and ...

Ghost stories are frequently told tales, but nothing's quite like what we see in Steven Soderbergh's Presence (now in theatres). Written by David Koepp, starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, ...

"Presence" is being sold as a ghost story, but it’s more like a family drama disguised under a sheet. The eye holes are the only thing separating it from a thousand other ordinary little films ...