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I Care A Lot

People HATE this movie! It’s got a confounding score on RottenTomatoes. It has 80% on the Tomatometer, the average of critics’ reviews, in this case 192, and a 37% audience score, with in excess of 1000 ratings. That’s enough data to be definitive. Sometimes foreign shows have a lack of data. So you don’t know […]

Nomadland

Streaming TV could save independent cinema. Assuming purveyors decided to go directly to the platforms and outlets paid for exhibition. The indie movie model is broken. You make a film, tour it to film festivals for years trying to build buzz so that a distributor will purchase the rights so they can exhibit it in […]

The Rock Camp Movie

https://www.rockcampthemovie.com I couldn’t turn it off. Rock and roll is a religion. It’ not taken seriously, but to a certain segment of society, it’s everything. We’re not talking about people who go to the show to hear the hits, we’re talking about people who know all the album tracks, who don’t talk during the show […]

Homeland Elegies

https://amzn.to/3n46JHX 1 This is the best book of the year. But it’s not that easy to read. Readability. It’s the number one criterion for a good book. Oftentimes that which is lauded is all about style, plot is secondary, it’s like the self-congratulatory publishing industry, and the graduates of the writing factories, can only anoint […]