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Okay… going to be knocking out a lot of awardsy/reviewy stuff in the next 48 hours. The West Side Story embargo releases on Thursday morning. Nightmare…
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THB #42: Measuring Content Moving ForwardListen now (13 min) | It has now become as ubiquitous or more ubiquitous than box office analysis. Streaming analysis. And every time I come across it,…
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Like Elvis Costello and Randy Newman, Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics make for some of my favorite poetry. Instead of going on about how much I love the work…
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I am thankful to be healthy, COVID-free, and relatively sane after the last 19 months of madness. I thank Netflix for launching into streaming, even be…
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THB #37: The Beatles: Get BackListen now (5 min) | It’s so complicated that it’s not that complicated. The Beatles: Get Back, directed by Peter Jackson and starring The Beatles is t…
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THB #35: The Trouble With GucciListen now (8 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 s…
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THB #34: 19 Weeks To Oscar, The Pause That RefreshesListen now (10 min) | We are in full Oscar hysteria at this point. And yet… we are also in a brief lull. The final 2 entries, West Side Story and Night…
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THB #32: The First Wave Listen now (3 min) | I’ve done over 2000 DP/30 long-form video interviews. A few subjects have cried. But today, I somehow managed to choke myself up i…
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THB #31: Encanto Love (a brief review)Listen now (3 min) | Here is the thing about Encanto. There are many things that it is not. But its central theme is one that could not be more importa…
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THB #30: Why Streaming Is In StasisListen now (11 min) | I have always hated the “horse race” usage for the evolution of streaming. It is, definitively, not a horse race. There will be n…
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THB #29: Busting Makes Me Feel BadListen now (6 min) | There is nothing wrong with Ghostbusters: Afterlife that a page one rewrite wouldn’t solve. There are so many things that can go w…
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THB #28: Quick Box OfficeListen now (2 min) | September 24-26 domestic box office was a total of $38.8 million October 1-3 started the uptick with Venom: Let There Be Carnage, …
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