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THB #18: How To Make A Bad Marvel Movie
Listen 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…
David Poland
Oct 28, 2021
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THB #233: Nikki Finke is Dead
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…
David Poland
Oct 10, 2022
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THB #310: Riseborough: The Drama
I lost a writing day to Twitter and the “discussion” of The Academy and Best Actrees nominee Andrea Riseborough. I put “discussion” in parentheses…
David Poland
Jan 29
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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…
David Poland
Mar 5, 2022
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THB #210: How To Make A Hit/Barbarian
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…
David Poland
Aug 24, 2022
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THB #56: Review - Spider-Man: No Way Home
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…
David Poland
Dec 14, 2021
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THB #338: Must Be Da Data!
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…
David Poland
Mar 16
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THB #35: The Trouble With Gucci
Listen 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…
David Poland
Nov 22, 2021
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THB #322: Strike! Strike?
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…
David Poland
Feb 24
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THB #333: WGA and Rushfield's Abyss
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…
David Poland
Mar 8
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THB #255: Chappelle. Again.
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…
David Poland
Nov 14, 2022
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THB Headline: Academy Membership Event 2 - Unanswered Questions
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…
David Poland
Sep 18, 2022
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