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Sometimes, you just don’t really want to write… but to get started writing, you just need to start writing… so… here we go… Top Gun Maverick kinda shot…
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Things are going to change at Netflix, going from being a $300 billion market cap company to an $82 billion market cap company. There is more pressure…
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I am, to be honest, sick of explaining the history and current state of streaming and legacy media to what seems to be a majority of media writers who…
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I promised some frivolity, so… Nothing has really changed as a result of the brutal first hour of cross-examination of Amber Heard. Apparently, her…
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It was a sad Sunday. The madness of Buffalo, NY and what seems to be similar madness in Laguna Woods, CA… shooters who traveled hundreds of miles with…
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I’m glad to see that some other writers have picked up on the $100m a weekend floor for box office. It’s important. But the reason I am writing this…
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I didn’t expect to be writing this today, but I listened to Michael Nathanson trying to get past Matt Belloni’s myopia about the industry and I wanted…
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Top Gun Maverick is not a bad movie. But it fails itself and the audience by not going the extra mile beyond being deeply self-reflective fan service…
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So Wall Street is giving Disney a pass. Disney has already eaten a lot of stock market excrement since The Big Netflix Bang™ on April 19, dropping from…
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Yes, ladies and gents, Disney’s quarterly is coming tomorrow. I don’t expect anything like the drama around Netflix’s quarterly, so I plan on writing…
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The Emmy of My Enemy Is The Enemy of My Emmy
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And so… the first season of real opportunity for movies in theaters in 2 years has officially launched. Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness will…
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