In 2023, we were all given the pleasure of watching Hollywood’s monopoly die. It used to be if you wanted to make a good movie, you needed to be going through the Hollywood system. But now, that system is failing, and audiences are looking elsewhere to get their movie fix. Thanks to many factors — […]
Peter Biskind’s new Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile and Greed Upended TV, is a fascinating attempt to chart the transition from cable television’s first efforts at creating what we now look back on as “the second golden era of TV” to the industry’s latest incarnation in the form of multiple, and often very confusing streaming […]
One of the most common phrases associated with supposedly groundbreaking female-led properties nowadays is “her-story.” Instead of “history” (a word apparently tainted by its patriarchal first three letters), feminist-approved films make “her-story.” Well, the latest all-female action flick to come out of Hollywood sure made “her-story” all right, just not in the way Sony was […]
Since it was first announced, the buzz around Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man spin-off “Madame Web” hasn’t been great. The film features a cast — headlined by Dakota Johnson of the “Fifty Shades” franchise and Sydney Sweeney of “Euphoria” — full of diverse women whose characters have all gained Spider-Man-like powers. The general discourse around “Madame Web,” […]
For Hollywood, 2023 wasn’t just a bad year — it was a disastrous one. Since the COVID pandemic blocked theater-goers across the world from going out to see their movies, studios have had a hard time convincing audiences to come back. But we know now that COVID isn’t the only factor to blame for poor-performing […]
It seems the average movie-goer is much more patriotic than Hollywood seems to believe. Few other reasons would explain the phenomenal box-office success of the Bollywood film “The Fighter,” which was released on Thursday, coinciding with India’s Republic Day on Friday. Directed by successful Bollywood director Siddharth Anand and starring famous Bollywood actors Hrithik Roshan, […]
Disney lost the top spot in the 2023 race to be the highest-grossing movie studio. Instead, Universal Pictures, which had “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” “Oppenheimer” and “M3GAN, became the global champion, according to Variety. Overall, Universal racked up $4.907 billion in global ticket sales. Disney raked in $4.827 billion globally. Disney was quick to […]
In my long life, I have never personally experienced antisemitism in America. I was raised by Jewish parents who believed that the best place Jews ever lived (other than in their own country in the Holy Land) was the United States of America. When the most prominent Jew of the 20th century, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, […]
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