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March 2025

There Is No "Art" Button
Studio Ghibli knock-offs are the latest product of OpenAI's theft machine.
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Matt Goldberg
How to Throw Snow White Under a Bus
A look at Variety’s shameful feature blaming Rachel Zegler for Disney's failures.
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'Snow White' Highlights Disney's Poor Read on Female Empowerment
What does heroic action look like for a Disney Princess in a live-action remake?
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'Looney Tunes' Is for Winners
If you don't know how to sell 'Looney Tunes,' get out of entertainment.
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'Snow White' Doesn't Know How to Be a Fairy Tale or a Musical
The new "live-action" Disney adaptation made me more sleepy than happy.
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Moviegoers Have to Make Better Choices
If you don't like studios only creating remakes and sequels, you might have to see something other than a remake or a sequel.
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When Should Audiences Be Accountants?
Looking at the economics of moviemaking beyond budgets and box office.
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Gene Hackman: The Best of the Bastards
The Oscar-winning actor played a wide range of characters, but he excelled at one particular kind.
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5 Thoughts on the 97th Academy Awards
A ceremony that largely avoided both gimmicks and politics.
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2025 Oscar Predictions
We don't know who will win Best Picture! That's exciting!
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February 2025

'Last Breath': Refreshing Competence in an Age of Incompetents
Look! Skilled people working together!
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Netflix Will Learn the Wrong Lessons from 'Emilia Pérez'
Laying the campaign's problems at the feet of Karla Sofía Gascón misses the larger issues affecting the company's Oscar woes.
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'The Monkey': Cheap Laughs for Sickos Like Me
Why yes, I will watch people die in gruesomely comic ways for 98 minutes.
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A Bond Villain Now Owns James Bond
Amazon's creative takeover means the iconic franchise will likely become thin gruel for "content."
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‘Bad Shabbos’ Kicks off a Good Opening Night at the 2025 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
Kyra Sedgwick, Method Man, and more walked the red carpet at Atlanta’s biggest film festival.
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'SNL50' Celebrated a Middling Present Rather Than a Storied Past
Lorne Michaels put a lot of famous people in the same room. Congratulations?
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The New 'Bridget Jones' Deserved Better than Peacock
The fourth installment is the best since the original. Streaming will reduce its reach.
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Stalemate in the Culture War
A brief corollary to my previous newsletter.
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The Unwinnable Culture War
Because controlling all three branches of government can't make you cool.
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Two Celebrities and a Product
Super Bowl spots are now too big to be memorable.
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Ariana DeBose Should Know Her Worth
The Oscar-winning actor doesn't need to play second fiddle in bad action movies.
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'Companion': No Such Thing as Making Love to Order
Drew Hancock's terrific debut feature highlights tech's inherent misogyny.
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