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7 Prisoners

It’s on Netflix. If you’re playing the home game, and you’re paying attention, you know that today the Maggie Gyllenhaal film “The Lost Daughter” goes live on Netflix. A New Year’s gift, it’s a marketing mistake. In today’s fast-flowing world you want the product available simultaneous with the hype. The “Lost Daughter” hype took place […]

More Don’t Look Up

The point is, you’ve got to open on Netflix. That’s right, unless you’ve got a superhero movie, you want to be day and date on the flat screen. Hell, skip the theatres completely, even though the owners of these megalopolises will bitch, they’re ancient, history, in the rearview mirror like record stores. And yes, there […]

Re: Don’t Look Up

I got a chance to see a screening pre-release. I fucking loved it. Told everyone I knew to make sure they don’t miss it. Then I started to read the reviews and seriously questioned what movie it was they were talking about. Sometimes I just don’t get it. Glad you did. Ken Alterwitz _______________________________________ Yes […]

Don’t Look Up

You’ve got to see it. Ignore the reviews. Ignore the fact that it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Forget that it opened in theatres. Ignore its budget. There’s almost no buzz. But this movie is FANTASTIC! Then again, if you’re a Trump supporter… We haven’t had a movie that’s captured the zeitgeist like this […]