Watch List Weekly Recap 7/21/23
Reviews of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer," plus the Watch List turns two, prompting a small fit of contemplation.
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Is this the right place to post questions and comments? Here is one -- I am astounded at the total lack of interest by the journalists writing about this strike in the influence of the nonAmerican movie production industry. This is huge, and it enormously strengthens the hand of the producers. What do they care if American actors and screenwriters are not reporting for work? They have thousands of alternatives, often, as we all know from first-hand experience, very highly skilled. (Netflix had made this point dozens of times in the past year.) So isn't it perfectly reasonable to predict that this strike will be settled in like a month once the screenwriters and actors recognize how weak their side is? If not, what am I missing? And how can I make any sense at all of the fact that no journalist, at least in any of the coverage I have read, has written about this? Are journalists that biased for labor?
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