No Content For Old Men

This week felt like a monumental moment in the Streaming Wars, coming right as every platform unloads in backlog of new content. What’s worth watching? What’s not? Let’s break it all down.

Guy Ritchie is back with a new cockney gangster movie. Plus a surprisingly powerful racial drama on Netflix, and two classics that prove they don’t make ‘em like they used to.

A few cool action sequences and Michael B Jordan’s deltoids weren’t enough to save this chaotic adaptation of classic Americana. Is another franchise dead before it begins?

The modern media landscape has pivoted to television to tell the types of stories I used to love at the multiplex. Rather than fight the trend, let’s take a sec to celebrate these series, which 20 years ago would’ve made for awesome movies.

In this crazy pandemic year, interest in the Academy Awards appears to be at an all-time low. Are movies dead?

Let’s talk westerns! The good, the bad and the ugly (pun intended) of one of Hollywood’s most trusty genres. Plus, I get to climb back on my soapbox about the complex relationship between movies and social media.

Bob Odenkirk is an action star. And a good one at that! What has the world come to? I bet you’re surprised by my reaction to “Godzilla vs. Kong,” and unsurprised by my feelings about a quintessential 1970s movie.

I made my return to a movie theater for the first time in over a year to knock out the last of the Best Picture nominees I hadn’t seen, discovering this thematically and formally inventive portrayal of dementia. Anthony Hopkins, wow.

The historic win by “Moonlight” in 2017 launched the Academy Awards into what I’m calling the Advocacy Era. Here’s what that means for this year’s ceremony as the nominees were finally announced this week.

A ripple in the media business could change the movies and shows you’re watching for the next 20 years! Plus recommendations for a fun little indie, a Cary Grant classic, and the best comfort food TV show running.