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THB #18: How To Make A Bad Marvel MovieListen now (12 min) | If you’re not amazed by how bad Chloe Zhao’s Eternals is, you either haven’t seen the movie, just hate all Marvel blindly or you…
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Writing about Nikki Finke’s passing may be the hardest thing I have to do this year. She was smart, incredibly hard working, and relentless. She had no…
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I lost a writing day to Twitter and the “discussion” of The Academy and Best Actrees nominee Andrea Riseborough. I put “discussion” in parentheses…
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THB #93: The Batman (no spoilers)Listen now | This film is fascinating to me on so many levels. You have seen writing on the movie. It’s a film noir detective piece that happens to be…
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We’ve had 12 $100 million domestic hits this year and 15 worldwide hits over $200 million. We’ve had 7 domestic hits between $50 million gross and $100…
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The first 20 minutes of Spider-Man: No Way Home had me a little nervous. It felt a little too clever. A little too hyper-real. A little too jokey. A…
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I’ve been in a post-Oscar brain fog for about 48 hours. And I really wasn’t doing very much this year. I’ve been restraining what is left of my brain…
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THB #35: The Trouble With GucciListen now (9 min) | When I saw House of Gucci the first time, I had that same slightly unsettled feeling that most of the people I have spoken to or…
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I care about the industry’s unions. I moved to Los Angeles with a television job in place in late 1987. It didn’t happen when the longest WGA strike in…
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It is not the writers’ or actors’ fault in any way that the cost per half-hour or hour of television has exploded in the last decade. But it has. If I…
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I am a fan of Dave Chappelle. He is a genius with words and ideas. I also think Dave Chappelle is a self-serving, ego-maniacal, manipulative lying…
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Given that Pete Hammond was clearly given access to the slideshow for the Academy Membership meeting before Academy members saw it (the 10:30am time…
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