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THB #458, Pt 1: What A Great Year Of Movies!
[ICYMI] THB #408: Oscargasm! - The Season of Intentionality
THB #456: A Look Into 2024 At The Box Office
60 Years Later... A Family Story: Part 1
THB #455: Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom
THB #452: Stuff To Watch Over The Holiday
THB #453: Oscargasm - Everything In Its Box
FYC BEST PICTURE: Cord Jefferson’s AMERICAN FICTION – Starring Jeffrey Wright | Find Screenings Now
THB #451: Yes, A Paramount Global Piece
THB #450: Oscargasm - The Less Things Change
THB #449 Sidebar: Some Recent HFPA History
THB #449: Resurrecting The Golden Trough
THB #448: Oscargasm '23 - LAFCA Votes!
THB #447: Oscargasm - Lists... Everyone Loves Lists!!!
Saltburn - For Your Consideration In All Categories, Including Best Picture
DP/30: Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
DP/30: Chad Stahlelski, John Wick Chapter 4
THB #446: Oscargasm - Precursed
THB #443: Spider-Man, Music, Marvel & Clarity
THB #442: Oscargasm '23 - NYFFC Votes!
DP/30 Junket: Rustin, Colman Domingo, George C. Wolfe
THB #439: Don't Cry For Disney, Box Office Guessers
THB #438: Thankful: Episode 26
THB #437: Before Thankful: Episode 26
THB #436: The Disney Vilification
THB #434: Oscargasm - The Horses Are In the Gate... And...
DP/30: Errol Morris, The Pigeon Tunnel
THB #429: Is The Marvels The New "Worst MCU Film Ever"?
THB #426: Let's Give Them Something To Talk About... Or Not
DP/30: Invisible Beauty, Bethann Hardison & Frédéric Tcheng
THB #425: Oscargasm: Sex & The Season
DP/30: The Bradley Cooper Experience
DP/30: Scorsese with a side of Thelma
DP/30: The 3 Most Popular Interviews Ever
THB #424: Calling Strikes With Balls
The #424: Five Nights At Freddy's
THB #423 : How's Fall Going At The Box Office?
THB #422: Oscargasm! - "I'm The Best Picture NOW"
THB #420: Can SAG Give AMPTP More Than One Take?
THB #418.1: It's Netflix Quarterly Day
THB #417: The Zone of Interest
THB #416: Heroism in Compromise
THB # 415: Late Night SAG Strike Cut & Paste With Uncle David
THB #412: Streaming Is Stuck (Not Just "Struck")
THB #411: The Week That Wasn't
THB #410: The Disaster Formerly Known As The Exorcist: Believer
THB #408: Oscargasm! - The Season of Intentionality
THB #407: Whose AI Is It Anyway?
THB #405: Strucked - Some Details
THB #403: The Filthiest Academy Museum Installation Alive?
THB #402: SVOD Dies, Streaming Format Was 19
THB #401a: Are We There Yet - Ep. 2
THB #401: Are We There Yet? - Ep 1
THB #399: Rhetoric Over Reality
THB #398: The Weekend of Getting It
THB #397: Whose Strike Is It Anyway?
THB Sidebar: Byron Allen's Math
THB #396: The "Joy" Of Disney Bundling
THB #395: Killers of the Flower Moon
THB #394: Who Won The Charter/Disney Skirmish?
THB #392: Oscargasm! (5 Came Back)
THB #391: Summer Movie Mythmaking
THB #389: Netflix and Dill(er)
THB #385: Strike Before Closing (Satire On A Joke of a Commentary)
THB #383: Blue Beetle's Shazam Problem
THB #380: Why Cable Must Die For Streaming To Live
THB Sidebar - My Monthly Streams (Why Cable Must Die)
THB #379: What about SAG? - Part 2
THB #378: What about SAG? - Part 1
THB #376: Non-Event Box Office & Why It Matters
THB #375: Are Quotas Required To Solve The WGA Strike?
DP/30: Greg Marcus, CEO of Marcus Theaters (Pt 2 of 2)
THB #374: Friedkin (1935-2023- )
THB #373: WGA Pay, By The Numbers
THB #372: 3 Tickets For Disney
THB #370: Fisking "Hollywood’s Slo-Mo Self-Sabotage"
THB #369: It's Chicken Little Season Again
THB #367: Strike(s) Update, Day 86
THB #356: The BarbenHeimer Math
THB #355: Barbie (spoilerific!)
THB #354: The Netflix (Quarterly) Fallacy
DP/30: Boyd Holbrook, Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny/Justified: Primeval City
THB #352b: Can Festivals Evolve?
THB #350 : The Repetition Of Myths
THB #349: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One
THB #348: Joy Fuck Club (orig. title... spoiler-free)
THB #347: Chicken Little's Fedora
THB Sidebar: The Longest Strike... FIGHT!
THB #345: Summer Marketing Scorecard (Part 2 of 2)
THB #344: Summer Marketing Scorecard (Part 1 of 2)
THB #343: Box Office Status Check
THB #342: Who Watches the Watchers Friday
Invite your friends to read The Hot Button
THB #341: "Zaslav! Zaslav!! Zaslav!!!"
THB #340: Groundhog Day: Streaming Like It's 1999
THB #389: No Hard Feelings (Spoilers)
THB #388: Disney Markets Movies
THB #387: What Happened To The Flash?
THB #386: Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny
THB #385: On The Last Episode of WGA Strike...
HELEN MIRREN and HARRISON FORD "Take Star Power to the Next Level" in Stunningly Cinematic 1923
THB #384: HFPA Is Dead... Long Live HFPA
THB #383: A Brief History (& Forecast) of TV Delivery
THB #382: Review - Transformers '96
THB #380: What Becomes A Film Writer, 2023?
THB #379: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (spoiler-free)
THB #377a: Memorial Day & The Box Office Summer
THB #376: Cannes... From A Distance
DP/30: David Magee, A Man Called Otto (and The Little Mermaid)
THB #375: The Rotten Tomatoes Fallacy
THB #373: The First True Victims Of A.I.
THB #372: The Math of Re-Bundling
THB #371: Fast X (spoiler-free)
THB #370: Strike Analysis - Netflix Is An F-Boy
THB #369: IP & The Endless Whining
THB #368: The Disney Quarterly
THB #367: One Week Down... X To Go...
THB #366: Box Office At This Juncture
THB #365: Guardians of The Galaxy, Vol 3 (spoiler-free)
DP/30 Emmy Watch: Christa Miller, Shrinking
THB #364: May The 4th Be... Problematic.
THB #363: WGA - Cards On The Table
THB #361: Academy Of Deja Vu' All Over Again
DP/30: Emmy Watch - Craig Mazin, The Last of Us
THB #360: ComcastNBCUniversalDidAnythingHappen Quarterly (Q1, 23)
THB #359: Hellooooo, CinemaCon!!!
THB #358: It's The End Of The World As We Knew It (for a couple years)
THB #358: And A Penis Shall Lead Them...
THB #357: Netflix & BuzzFeed & Tesla, Oh My!!!
THB #356: April Streamers Bring Emmy Dreamers, Episode 2
THB #355a: Netflix Quarterly Day!
THB #355: Netflix Quarterly Day Preview
THB #354: Box Office, Summer's Almost Here
THB #353: A Sunday Cord Cutting Update
THB #352: The End of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
THB #351: The Super Important WBD Event!!!
THB #350: If Succession Was Real
THB #348: What To Make Of The Mario Opening
THB #347: April Streamers Bring Emmy Dreamers
THB #345: Creed 4: Masters By TKO
THB #342: New Deal 4 - The Future, Part 2: The Bundle Goes À La Carte (Kinda)
THB #341: New Deal 3 - The Future, Part 1
THB #340: New Deal 2 - Reaching For The Long Tail
THB #339: New Deal 1 - Hating The 8ing
THB #337: They Liked It. They Really, Really Liked It
THB #336: Once In Love With Oscar
THB #335 : 1st Annual Oscar Distribution & Marketing Round-Up, Pt 3 of 3
THB #334 : 1st Annual Oscar Distribution & Marketing Round-Up, Pt 2 of 3
THB #333: WGA and Rushfield's Abyss
THB #332 : 1st Annual Oscar Distribution & Marketing Round-Up, Pt 1 of 3
THB #331: The Saturday Of The Underwhelming Live
THB #329: Creed III (spoilers)
THB #328: Is Choice The Best Choice?: Filmed Entertainment Discussion
THB #327: AMC Theaters Quarterly
THB #325: 3 Days To Oscar Voting
THB #324: Oscar Precursors 4 Days To Final Voting
THB #321: Writing Through A Slump
THB Sidebar: The 10 Questions The Academy Needs To Be Asking About Its Show & Its Future
THB #320: 3 Weeks To Oscar/10 Days To Final Voting
THB Sidebar: More Detail on "Eight Is Not Enough"
THB #318: 15 Days To Oscar Voting/ 4 Wks To Oscar
THB #317: Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
THB: Iger On CNBC Thursday Morning
THB #315: The Iger State of The Union
THB #314: 5 Weeks To Oscar/ Gina Prince-Bythewood
THB #310: Riseborough: The Drama
THB Headlines: Oscar nominations (full list)
THB #306: The New Sundance Is Here!
THB #305: How To Cut Your Cord
THB #304: Netflix Day! Preview & BAFTA
THB #303: The Day With No Words
THB #302: The Week With No Ads
The Power and Purpose of WOMEN TALKING | FYC Best Picture
THB #299: Oscar Voting Has Begun
EMPIRE OF LIGHT a film by Sam Mendes | Screen NOW in the Academy Screening Room
THB #297: There's Got To Be A Morning After
THB Sidebar: On A Personal Note
THB #296 Audio: Tuesday Night's Alright For Snoring
THB #296: Tuesday Night's Alright For Snoring
FYC | Golden Globe & Critics Choice Nominee ARGENTINA, 1985 | Best International Feature Film
THB #295: 10 Weeks To Oscar/5 Days To Nomination Voting
Danielle Deadwyler in TILL | The Story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s Courageous Pursuit of Justice
THB #294: Years End 4... What I Think I Know
Q&A with Damien Chazelle - Babylon
Bill Nighy Stars in LIVING | “One of the Best Pictures of the Year!”
THB #292: Top Movies of 2022, Pt 2 of 2