Jerry Seinfeld thinks the movie business is “over”

Jerry Seinfeld thinks Hollywood is filled with people who are confused and disillusioned, saying the movie business is “over.” It was famed screenwriter William Goldman who once said of the movie industry, “Nobody knows anything.” And that could very well be true, with Jerry Seinfeld now agreeing that Hollywood is as clueless as many people … Read more

Jerry Seinfeld thinks the movie business is “over”

Jerry Seinfeld thinks Hollywood is filled with people who are confused and disillusioned, saying the movie business is “over.” It was famed screenwriter William Goldman who once said of the movie industry, “Nobody knows anything.” And that could very well be true, with Jerry Seinfeld now agreeing that Hollywood is as clueless as many people … Read more

This Remake Has No Business Being This Good

About five minutes into the new remake of Road House, its hero comes close to killing himself by deliberately parking his car on some train tracks as a locomotive comes barreling through an intersection. At the last minute he changes his mind. The hero survives by the thinnest of margins; so thin, in fact, that the back of his beater gets … Read more

Netflix Gets Into the Pharma Business

Netflix’s Pain Hustlers movie originated as an article about the dark side of the opioid business in The New York Times Magazine. (You can still read it if you’re a Times subscriber.) It later became a book — and now the article and the book have been given the movie treatment by the ‘Flix and some big name stars, … Read more

Netflix shutting down its DVD-by-mail business after 25 years

Netflix announces that they will be shutting down their DVD by mail business later this year after 25 years. Say goodbye to those little red envelopes. Netflix announced today that they will be shutting down their original DVD-by-mail business later this year. It’s an end of an era, folks. “After an incredible 25 year run, … Read more