12 Gifts for Michael Jackson Fans to Celebrate the Michael Movie (2026)
Antoine Fuqua’s Michael hits theaters April 24. These 12 gifts are for the fans who
Erdem Tepegöz’s In the Shadows: SEEfest 2021 Review; horror film for today’s Amazon-addled world
The most obvious interpretation of writer-director Erdem Tepegoz’s film is that it’s allegorical communism. Factories, labor, generic outfits, total disrepair, and so forth. Still, in the era of Amazon, is it all that different from capitalism? As seen in Nomadland, Amazon would probably claim they offer “freedom”…freedom, that is, to live in a van and be seasonally employed. But In the Shadows’ factory offers room, board, and guaranteed work. Neither is big on healthcare. All workers are replaceable. And constantly monitored. The warehouse Cold War counts no real winners among the employed.
FILMS GONE WILD: What is your film worth? An Indie The Ladies of the House — Let’s not ask Best Buy or Netflix to answer that question
I can’t imagine Francis Ford Coppola standing in front of a Best Buy bin while wearing an old-timey change belt or fanny pack and taking a couple dollars at a time for his GODFATHER films. So why should I do that with my next epic (because it will TOTALLY be an an epic, I’m telling you)?
FILMS GONE WILD: Hollywood’s New World Order – Amazon and Netflix takes over the business of studios & mid-budget star-driven dramas and comedies
Is the Amazonianzation and Netflixication of independent film basically just the latest “reset” of what we used to think of as the hierarchy of studio films versus independent films?