Archive for the 'Movies' Category


The Nicky Hopkins Movie

thesessionmanfilm.com ——— Does anybody under forty even know who Nicky Hopkins is/was? But for those who do… When was the last time you saw Shel Talmy on film? And the man with the most gravitas is…Bill Wyman? Oh, Mick and Keith are here too, and they wax rhapsodic, but they were all there… Actually, it […]

Donald Sutherland

I was having dinner with John Brodey at Ago and he told me his Australian film director buddy Fred Schepisi might be stopping by. It used to be Bono’s. Sonny’s place. Before that I can’t remember. But it was always Italian. And right there at the intersection of Melrose and La Cienega. The last time […]

Hit Man

What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where the biggest movie of the summer is on Netflix? One in which the entire movie business’s model was stolen, or shall we say abdicated, and the industry had no idea it was happening. What did we learn from tech? You gain the eyeballs, […]

The Movie Business

No one goes to a movie for the theatre, and all the innovation and investment has been on the exhibition side of the film business for the past two decades. And now the industry is paying the price. Also for being out of touch with the changing world. In all verticals, it’s about niches. Narrower […]