On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask if Tom Ortenberg and Briarcliff’s mission to distribute contentious movies like The Apprentice and Magazine Dreams is a controversy or a nontroversy. (You can find the Wall Street Journal article referenced in the episode here.) Then they review Snow White, a disastrous misfire on virtually every level. Make sure to swing by for our bonus episode on Friday about consolidation in the nerd-media business space. And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend!
Her hair is terrible. Just sayin'
I'm excited to see Magazine Dreams! Jonathan Majors did his time for his crime, I'm unsure why it's my job to punish him more than the justice system did.
Disney seems to be in a creative drought. Wonder if that’s a studio/management issue or writer problem…both?
The live-action remakes have been a relatively profitable genre, but it looks like that well might be running dry.
I really enjoyed the Cinderella live action remake a few years ago. Growing up, we watched the TV version of Cinderella with Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon every year and loved it.
I saw The Apprentice and loved it. It’s a shame more people haven’t seen it.
We were surprised by it and it actually really was insightful into Trump. Great acting.
My longtime literary agent's closet-sized office was located in Manhattan's costume jewelry district. Its false promise aligned with my prospects.
$209 million budget for Snow White, are these just money laundering schemes?
Terrible CGI is very expensive!
“mission to distribute contentious movies”?
What about No Other Land?
Where’s your review of this OSCAR WINNING MOVIE?
Or any comment about Israeli settlers beating up the star, while the IDF sat back and watched, only then to be arrested and disappeared by the IDF as a “terrorist”?
You’re such cowards.
thanks for listening!
I find it genuinely astonishing: you are far more afraid of the Israel lobby than you are of Trump.
Trump is in the process of overthrowing US democracy, ignoring judges' orders, disappearing permanent residents, and committing unlimited corruption. You and the rest of The Bulwark are in the vanguard opposing it. I am confident that The Bulwark has personal and digital security policies to protect you physically. Maybe even a few "go bags".
But you can't review a movie that might be critical of Israel.
That's wild.
I do not understand how you can be so brave at home, and yet such cowards when it comes to a cruel little foreign country, which violates every single "Judeo-Christian American Value" that you claim to stand for?
The fact that I vocally oppose one thing and not the other should tell you something about how I feel about the thing you’re so whipped about. (Spoiler: I don’t care. And I only review what I’m interested in.) Knock off the off-topic comments.