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I’m not really a Kael person, which is almost neither here nor there. What I’ve come to think about her is that she didn’t review films or write about movies, not really. She wrote about herself and her reactions to films she saw. Today, in my view, Kael’s hyper personalized style has become...

Nice, will be good to see it again, especially on something I’m already paying for.

There’s something else I’ve noticed with more modern criticism and analysis - and boy is this making me feel prematurely like an old fogey, but going to film school meant studying nearly a century of reviewing styles and analysis so I feel reasonably qualified to make the observation - but...

I’m looking forward to seeing it a second time when I can stream it but it won’t be the same without the two geriatric women practically getting into a shoving match during it - if nothing else, this gets my award for weirdest audience participation :D

At a certain point, responding negatively with the same sentiment to every new post from every person expressing enjoyment just becomes trolling.

In general, I’m not sure I agree. We live in a time with enormous entertainment options. Everything that plays in a theater can and will be available at home too, often within months if not weeks. There’s also a huge, almost unfathomable amount of quality television happening. I think...

There were like five other people in the audience when I saw WSS and I would guess all were over 60. Two of them got into a fight over masks and reserved seating and I wouldn’t be shocked if that sort of experience leads an already wary group to go out even less.

Probably a combination of Spielberg’s name/history of success/desire to work with him and the then-recent history of musicals like La La Land and The Greatest Showman being box office successes. Throw in the more recent preference by audiences to spend their money on known commodities and it...

It’s not really a matter of family audiences, in my view. Every movie that is released to theaters today will be released for home viewing, usually within weeks of being in theaters, and usually at a price point substantially cheaper than a theatrical viewing. I don’t think it’s about age or...

Before the pandemic, the average American theatergoer went approximately 1.5 times per year. This year has had two year’s worth of major releases crammed into a six month period. At a certain point, it’s probably inevitable that studios/theaters are going to run out of paying customers. I’d...