Matt Goldberg

You Should Blame Merrick Garland Garland's incompetence gave the Supreme Court the chance to set Trump free

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

I have not but I’ll put it on my list!

Midnight

Tales from the Hood

The Legend of Hell House

Heavenly Bodies

Favorite first-time viewings in October:

- If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
- Midnight
- It Was Just an Accident
- Tales from the Hood
- The Legend of Hell House
- Blue Moon
- Train Dreams
- Heavenly Bodies

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

You can't make this up.

There Is No Xbox: The Fall of Microsoft Gaming Microsoft is nixing a successful brand and community to chase profits it will never acquire.

It's fascinating to see Microsoft nuke any chance of an Xbox rebound in the hopes of being bigger than Steam.

There is perpetual hand wringing and recrimination about leftist elitism towards right wingers. But I never hear anything about extreme and hateful elitism towards those the right deems beneath them. Look at what they're saying about snap recipients right now. They're seething with rage.

He’s going to drive a car off a building and say they’re halfway to a consumer-ready product.

#HappyHalloween

It gets a bad rap as a debate tool, but there's nothing more effective than savage mockery.

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this is insane.

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I think Cosmopolis is surprisingly good considering it mostly takes place inside a limo.

Bugonia Review: Let's All Chuckle at Our Certain Doom Director Yorgos Lanthimos remains a master of dark comedy, but his latest feature struggles under its shallow fatalism.

I got some laughs out of #Bugonia, but it’s not a particularly deep or thoughtful movie.

Three quick reasons why ‘Grand Finale’ is the best of #DowntonAbbey movies, and worth adding to your collection. #movies #movietok #physicalmedia TikTok video by Matt Goldberg

I’m in my “physical media influencer” phase and you cannot stop me www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM4o3Wtd/

Rik Worth (@RikWorth) on twitter: "Actually, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist. The name of the monster is Creature_Final_FlNAL (this one!)(3)"

The media and intelligentsia really do hate earnest sincerity more than any other opinion or belief, to a degree that is honestly pretty wild.

Tweet from John Podhoretz reading: "My mother was a Heritage board member for 40 years. You have befouled her, you rancid wretch of an amoeba." quoting Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, tweeting: "There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts:"

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election. Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024. But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

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I absolutely agree that prices are too high. I think the studios and exhibitors need to find a better profit-sharing model because betting everything on an expensive opening weekend before rushing to streaming hurts everyone.

Nouvelle Vague Is a Weird Movie for Netflix Richard Linklater’s latest will send you hunting for New Wave movies that aren’t available on the biggest streamer.

I quite enjoyed NOUVELLE VAGUE, but for anyone who catches it on Netflix, they’ll be left searching for movies the streamer doesn’t offer.

Perhaps, but long movies have been massive hits (Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Oppenheimer). I think people don't mind a long movie as much as they're unwilling to pay $15 for something they can watch at home in a few weeks.

For sure. Theaters need to do more to make the experience worthwhile.

He sure did protect the most vulnerable in Chicago aside from the murder of a teenager he tried to coverup.

Box Office Massacre: October Revenue Falls to 27-Year Low, Excluding the Pandemic The dramatic downturn in North America is due to a scarcity of product and the failure of fall event pics to connect with audiences, including the ill-fated 'Tron: Ares' and the Dwayne Johnson starrer...

Are the movies the problem? Sure, somewhat. But I continue to maintain the decline in box office isn't scarcity of product but the short theatrical window. The casual moviegoer will not go to the theater if they can see it on a streaming in a matter of weeks. They just won't.

I'm glad it's not just me. Why is a little blurry? Do I need glasses?

It's such a great story, and Farrell is a gem for remembering the 3rd AD on a movie he did over 20 years ago.

A little bit from all the columns

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New Yorgos

Hell yeah

Films Fatale: a starter pack of twenty noir features directed by women • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine Noirvember founder Marya E. Gates rings in the month of moral ambiguities and mysteries with a starter pack of twenty women-directed noir features—cigarettes and stilettos not included.

For @letterboxd.social I wrote a starter pack of films directed by women to watch this #Noirvember!