Netflix

Netflix’s Terrible (Hopefully Temporary) Problem

Reading Felix Salmon’s downer article and searching for a classic mystery thriller has gotten me pessimistic about Netflix. Not about… Read More

Required Reading: Childish Blockbusters, Coen Ethics and Missing Netflix Features

The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere.There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for… Read More

The Morning Read: Netflix’s Math, The 4% Problem and The New Superman

The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere.Just leave a tab open for us, will ya?“How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood”… Read More

How Netflix Is Making Traditional TV Better

It wasn’t too long ago - just last year, in fact - that journalists and pundits started drafting Netflix’s eulogy.… Read More

Will The Length Of Movies Hurt Them In the Next Generation?

Early this year, Nathan Harden wrote about a bubble on the verge of bursting, saying that “Big changes are coming,… Read More

The Morning Read: ‘Space Jam,’ Netflix Using Piracy and Not Khan

The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere.Just leave a tab open for us, will ya?“Space Jam’s character-ruining tackiness” -… Read More

Indies For Everyone: How Small Movies Got Big in a Bloated Summer

During the summer of 1998, one of the two multiplexes in my modestly sized hometown devoted one of its sixteen… Read More

The Morning Read: Profitable NC-17, Secret Netflix and the Alamo Drafthouse Revolution

The morning’s best writing from around the movie website-o-sphere.Just leave a tab open for us, will ya?“A Rating With a Higher… Read More

After ‘Arrested Development’ Perfected the Situation Comedy, the Show Moved on to the ‘Structure…

After ‘Arrested Development’ Perfected the Situation Comedy, the Show Moved on to the ‘Structure Comedy’The original 3 seasons of Arrested… Read More