Sonny Bunch

2 days ago | thebulwark.com | Sonny Bunch

Alyssa is off this week, so Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark) and Peter Suderman (Reason) are joined by Ben Dreyfuss (Calm Down) to discuss all things Sinners. In cons and nons, they ask if Coogler’s unusual deal granting him copyright on the movie 25 years hence will really “destroy the studio system.” And then they review the film, which has done boffo box office and earned a coveted A from CinemaScore audiences. Make sure to swing by Bulwark+ on Friday for a bonus vampire movie draft.

5 days ago | thebulwark.com | Sonny Bunch

Sinners is a joyously filthy movie: a celebration of the pleasures that come from art and life and living; a rejection of the sorrow that derives from hate and fear and loathing. Writer-director Ryan Coogler’s Depression-era vampire flick is both rooted in the ugly reality of the Jim Crow South and explodes into an exuberant fantasia about the power of music (and movies) to transcend space and time. Michael B.

6 days ago | thebulwark.com | Sonny Bunch

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:11:37Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. On this week’s episode, I talked to Andrew Ortenberg of Briarcliff Entertainment about distributing tricky movies like The Apprentice and Magazine Dreams. How have the economics of cinematic distribution improved for distributors with the infrastructure in place to handle it? How have the various video-on-demand tiers shifted over the last few years?

1 week ago | thebulwark.com | Sonny Bunch

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss the myriad ways in which tariffs could hurt (and maybe in one very minor way help) the entertainment business. Then they review Warfare, the latest film from Alex Garland and co-writer/co-director Ray Mendoza. No bonus episode on Friday, but we’ll be back with a full episode on Monday where we’ll be reviewing Sinners.

1 week ago | thebulwark.com | Sonny Bunch

On last week’s Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, I talked to Ray Mendoza about Warfare, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Alex Garland (Civil War). You can listen here or watch here:I really hope you check out the movie in a theater; it’s the sort of movie where the sound system is incredibly important. You want to hear this on the biggest speakers possible, so you can actually feel it, as the concussive blasts from grenades, IEDs, and overflights are a key part of the film’s feel.