obsession making 100x its budget in 2 weeks and backrooms opening like this against a star wars movie… hollywood may never let anyone over the age of 30 hold a camera again
Honestly, one of the most impressive $100M+ grossers this decade - original non-genre film, R-rating, difficult premise, released far away from awards season which usually gives those kind of movies a boost. A genuine gamble that’s paid off comfortably for Zendaya and A24.
Soderbergh’s BLACK BAG is probably the new film I rewatched most last year, both for its profoundly satisfying sense of formal and narrative efficiency and for the polygraph scene that Marisa Abela steals out from under everyone
in the hyper-proprietary future Netflix is hoping to create, the ability to watch movies - to watch *any* movie - would practically cease to exist for most people on earth if a server farm caught fire or an underwater fiber-optic data cable was severed. I feel like that’s bad.
Steve Kornacki seemed almost speechless around 907pm discussing the age divide in the NYC mayoral race with voters under 45 going overwhelmingly for Mamdani while those over 45 breaking heavily for Cuomo:
"The thing that makes that so volatile is this the cutoff line, and we see this in the exit poll, is about 45 years of age. Voters over 45 are a pro-Cuomo demographic. We see him winning those voters. Voters under 45. Cuomo falls off an absolute cliff. And especially when you get under 30, he's being trounced three times by Mandani. So the question becomes critically, what's the median age of this electorate? Is one group turning out more than the other? Cuomo's hope today is that older voters in New York City, older voters in the outer boroughs flooded the polls are anti-Mamdani, decided Curtis Sliwa didn't have a chance, and rallied behind Andrew Cuomo in massive, as you would say, record shattering numbers. That would be his hope because he doesn't just need big turnout, he needs the turnout to be disproportionately older because Mamdani is -- I mean, you see these in the polls. It's -- we've seen age divides before. I gasp every time I see it in New York City. It's off the charts."