Archive for the 'Movies' Category


Train Dreams

They don’t make ’em like this anymore, only in this case they did. Back when the world was smaller, you could track the purchases at Sundance to the ultimate distribution of the pics, usually close to a year later. But now… I knew about the bidding for “Train Dreams,” I knew Netflix bought it, but […]

One Battle After Another

And Hollywood wonders why this was a box office disappointment? There have been reams of pages utilizing “One Battle After Another” as an illustration of a failure of the audience, that people just won’t come out to see a great movie. Having now watched it on HBO… I was hipped by Harold that it was […]

The Seymour Hersh Documentary

Wow. I was going to write about another Netflix documentary, “Breakdown: 1975,” but when the ending reflected the attitudes of today…I lost the inspiration. You see there’s no snow in Colorado. Just the stuff they made back in November. Since then, not only has it been too warm to make more snow, it hasn’t snowed […]

Yemi Oyediran-This Week’s Podcast

Yemi Oyediran is the director of the must-watch documentary “King of Them All: The Story of King Records” presently airing on PBS. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yemi-oyediran/id1316200737?i=1000737576785 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/0197154e-0fe1-4421-896b-a1b595ce0db7/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-yemi-oyediran