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1 week ago | 
crookedmarquee.com | Jason Bailey
Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. PICK OF THE WEEK: Blaxpoitation Classics, Vol.
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2 weeks ago | 
crookedmarquee.com | Jason Bailey
The new Mission: Impossible film is subtitled The Final Reckoning, a have-it-both-ways solution to the fact that it is the direct sequel and continuation of the 2023 entry, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One.
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2 weeks ago | 
wetheitalians.com | Jason Bailey
BY: Jason BaileyJames Gandolfini was unknown to most TV viewers when he got the role of Tony Soprano. But if you were a connoisseur of character actors in the mid-'90s, he was already on your radar.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Jason Bailey
Tell a friend to tell a friend. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- On Friday, Ryan Coogler’s passed a major milestone on its already impressive path to commercial success: that day’s grosses of $4.4 million domestically and $1.2 million internationally brought its total box office haul to $303.5 million.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberglinea.com | Jason Bailey |Brandon Bell
El presidente Donald Trump anunció al mundo el pasado fin de semana que el cine se ha convertido en otro de los objetivos de sus aranceles. “La industria de la cinematografía en Estados Unidos se está muriendo muy deprisa”, escribió en su plataforma de redes sociales. “Otros países ofrecen todo tipo de incentivos para alejar a nuestros cineastas y estudios de cine de Estados Unidos... Se trata de un esfuerzo concertado de otras naciones y, por lo tanto, de una amenaza a la seguridad nacional”.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Jason Bailey
We all saw this coming. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. announced that it was changing the name of its streaming service “Max” back to “HBO Max,” a sense of deja vu was warranted. HBO, once a mighty cable giant, has altered its streaming brand with a frequency that matches a 20-something changing addresses; viewers looking for , or first went to HBO GO, up next was HBO NOW and after that HBO Max.
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3 weeks ago | 
crookedmarquee.com | Jason Bailey
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and horror movie remakes. No matter how sacred or forgettable, if a horror title gains even the smallest following—which isn’t difficult, since horror lovers are the easiest lays in all of fandom—you can rest assured that somewhere along the line, it’ll brook sequels, prequels, reboots and eventually, remakes.
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3 weeks ago | 
crookedmarquee.com | Jason Bailey
Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.
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4 weeks ago | 
taipeitimes.com | Jason Bailey
By Jason Bailey / Bloomberg Opinion US President Donald Trump let the world know last weekend that movies have become another one of his tariff targets. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote on social media. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States … This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberglinea.com.br | Jason Bailey |Eric Thayer
Bloomberg Opinion — No último fim de semana, Donald Trump informou ao mundo que os filmes se tornaram mais um de seus alvos tarifários. “A indústria cinematográfica dos Estados Unidos está morrendo rapidamente”, ele publicou em sua plataforma de mídia social, a Truth Social. “Outros países oferecem todos os tipos de incentivos para atrair nossos cineastas e estúdios para longe dos Estados Unidos... Esse é um esforço conjunto de outros países e, portanto, uma ameaça à segurança nacional.
