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2020 will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory; social movements, ineffective governments, and of course, a global pandemic that is being ignored in the States. It's a lot to process. With the added agony of infuriating social media posts, being
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What used to be synonymous for years with Netflix is now the next frontier of entertainment, all a studio's hopes and dreams held together by digital code and accelerated by this horrid pandemic in the form of a streaming service. Cutely named 'The Streaming Wars,' though
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It's been some time since I last grazed the plains of the old Film Assist blog. When I wrote my goodbye post I meant it. I didn't think I'd be coming back. Film criticism wasn't fun anymore and I needed to clear
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And the Oscar goes to...
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Apple's road trip buddy dramedy
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And how it'll affect the future of distribution
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It’s official. I’m back at work! Testing negative after my week and a half of covid and I feel like I’m part of the world again. It feels great to talk to friends face to face (with masks) and actually get out of the house. Thankfully my
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Big studios are not shy about their slate of releases. It’s common for them to start marketing two, sometimes three, years in advance to get the hype machine rolling. However, streaming doesn’t work like that. Companies like Netflix are arguably as big as their theatrical competition, but when
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Hello. We are currently two full weeks into the new year. That’s astounding. Never mind the looming depression that we’ll be entering the third year of this pandemic very soon, I want to congratulate all of you. Let’s focus on what makes us happy in the world
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This was a difficult decision. My blog is not professional and has always been for my selfish desire to share my thoughts on film. It was a way for me to connect with some really awesome people and a way for me to have discussions that otherwise would never have
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We are approaching a cultural shift in entertainment consumption where nigh every studio and network will be launching their own streaming service, and one of those companies releasing their own service recently is non other than Apple. Yes, the phone and computer company put some money into the entertainment biz