But Is It on Netflix? - Streaming Video Service Thread: Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube TV, AT+T Watch, Philo, Playstation Vue, HBO Max, HBO Now, Facebook Live and many more

Because I can!

But, like, just literally - and this is argument for argument's sake - I'd say ideally, if Disney owned Indiana Jones, then Disney+ *should* have Indiana Jones, and if Criterion puts out a great edition of Rebecca, then Criterion Channel *should* have Rebecca. Even though I know why they don't.

https://i.imgur.com/T0XyAZ8.gif

Why *should* copyright owners not be allowed to negotiate streaming and home video rights separately?

Look, the entire streaming landscape is such a steaming hellscape atm that I will endorse anyone's right to complain about it, whether their complaints are wholly coherent or not. Because it's not as if the logic behind streaming is wholly coherent.

And yet another call from yrs truly to help keep physical media a viable concern!

I had the distinct joy of trying to find something on my local PBS channel last week on a streaming service. That is a fucking hellscape.

PBS struck a deal with YoutubeTV (of course, I didn't have it, we do pay for HUluLive though; no dice, no PBS there). PBS app didn't have what we were looking for because it was specific to the local channel as part of their pledge drive. So I had to sign up for a trial of YoutubeTV to see that, and now Im annoyed now that I've discovered that PBS channels aren't available anywhere. Complained to my public media friend. He said he's been yelling about it for years. Apparently PBS were supposed to follow up the YouTube deal with Hulu, Playstation, and a variety of other streaming services in the years following that, but they didn't, because they move like molasses. He'd just had to explain the same thing to his elderly father the night before. Which makes me wonder: how much have local PBS channels viewership dropped off as people start cutting cable?

apologies for any missing apostrophes, that key on my keyboard appears to only work when it feels like it

you have to run as fast as you can just to stand still. the bbc is the best funded public broadcaster on the planet and they can still barely keep a foot in enough of the platforms that people choose to use now. with pbs’ teeny resources i’m not surprised that they’re finding it difficult. but you’d hope with the right deals they could shore up their threadbare finances.

What’s up with this term “day-and-date” for simultaneous releases that’s everywhere now? Seems redundant, the two words mean exactly the same thing in this context surely

It's been a thing since at least Soderbergh's "Bubble" in 2006. No idea if there's a storied etymology, but I've always vaguely assumed that the redundancy is the point, that it's underscoring two different releases happening at the same time.

(and maybe that eg VOD used dates on any day of the week, whereas film always used the "5th Thursday," "17th Thursday," etc?)

Interesting theories - my headcanon for this is “people in the biz are idiots”

I know there isnt much to either moan about nor to nitpick at those moaning about in the world currently but srsly why would anyone complain about the price/ease of access to material that is available free and extremely easily found and why would anyone else defend the pricing/access models when it is set up to be as fractured and expensive and as much of a pita as seems devisable

Its like standing in line at a gate where no fence exists with a few ppl also hanging round to explain how gates work

idgi

Suscribed to Arrow Player yesterday. Watched Wolf Guy w/ Sonny Chiba, which is v much the quintessential Arrow aesthetic. Lots of good yakuza flicks and horror stuff on there.

What’s up with this term “day-and-date” for simultaneous releases that’s everywhere now?

English speakers love an irreversible binomial!

“day and date” is studio/exhibitor terminology, means released in theaters & vod (or whatever other platform) at the same time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_release

it was a big deal back in the early 00’s when redbox & netflix started up
studios like Disney and Universal always pushed for loooong windows between theatrical & say, dvd release

anyway its p nerdy & prob only interesting to distribution-heads anymore

I know what it means, I’m interested in how “released in multiple ways on the same day” became (the daft and nonsensical) “released in multiple ways on the same day AND the same date!”

I mean I think sic’s first guess is right but I don’t think it’s deliberately underscoring so much as someone knew they wanted to express “2 things happening at the same time” but (because dumb) mixed up what the things were and ended up expressing “the same time happening at the same time”. And then everyone else (dumb) picked it up w/o realising it made no sense

i thought "day and date" means the same day internationally? so same "date" meaning it happens at the same time in Japan or Haiti regardless of time zone? This was my working theory, no proof to show.

the day was meant to reference picking it up at redbox in the day to watch it at night, and the date represented taking a hot date to the cinema. day and date. what is there to be confused about it's perfectly understandable this thing i just made up

Finally a sensible answer

Fwiw, the term predates the VOD connotation—here it is in 2003, referring to int’l distribution strategy:

Fox’s unprecedented worldwide booty from the boffo bow of comics sequel “X2: X-Men United” is traceable to a recent trend in which event pics open overseas in ever-closer proximity to their domestic openings.

Yet precious few pics are likely to mimic Fox’s unprecedented 58-country bow of “X2” on literally the same date in all territories.

In most cases, distribs will stagger international openings over three-week periods following pics’ domestic debuts, which nevertheless are often referred to as “day-and-date” rollouts.

(My guess is, in that case, it had something to do with the fact that the same “date” is not necessarily the same “day” in every territory.)

Related - the death of the Netflix DVD library:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/netflix/netflix-dvd-service-plan-subscribers-discontinued-closing/

well it's on their front page anyway

This show Alone Together thats produced by the Lonely Island is pretty funny even if it has Chris Delia in it (not in a starring role) and I don't know if it's even still being made, but ran across it on Hulu and am enjoying it.

They only did two seasons of it, both premiering in 2018, and it was cancelled right after the second season aired.

We got another 3-month trial of HBO Max; their catalog of movies is somewhat interesting/random. There's good sprinkling of "cult / indie / foreign" titles, with an emphasis on the '80s and early '90s (for some reason); plus some older "classics" along the same lines. It's nothing that would impress a real film buff, but a young person just getting into it (especially, say, 20 years ago) may be interested. Or, I suppose, someone "our" age who has a hankering to watch Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, followed by the early Jim Jarmusch films (they even have Permanent Vacation) and Godard's Weekend. Not much in the way of classic Hollywood, though they do have tons of Charlie Chaplin films and some others from that era.

(FWIW, I'm an hour into Mulholland Drive, which I've never seen. Their print has the Criterion Collection logo at the beginning.)

I rewatched the first episode of nu-Who on HBO Max and a) it's surprising how well it holds up; b) it's extra surprising how engaging and likeable Rose is given how insufferable she becomes later on

If you like quirky/foreign horror, Folklore on HBO Max has six episodes worth watching - "six tales of horror from six Asian countries in this series based on folklore from each country". Even the lackluster ones are interesting for the premise and country of origin. Tatami and Nobody were standouts, I thought.

well it's on their front page anyway

It does work if I paste it into a browser though

(the ilx auto-hyperlink losses the last / )

Well this looks fun

just got this frightening press email

IT COUNTS PEOPLE IN THE ROOM SO IT CAN CHARGE PER PERSON??!?!

capitalism is fucking exhausting pic.twitter.com/9hDEhor6UT

— Sean Aitchison (@Sean8UrSon) April 5, 2021

Ooof. To be honest, just the other day I wondered aloud to my wife why TVs didn't have face recognition yet to know whose streaming account to use. This is just one step further (and one step closer to streaming hell).

I'm hard-pressed to think of a product whose crushing, humiliating failure I'd like to see more.

Doesn't the Xbox or some other gaming system already do the facial recognition --> user account thing?

I assume the part where they claim it collects real-time "emotional" data for the content providers is below the fold.

I don't know who the Tweeter is, but seems like he's doing exactly what he's being asked to do - virally promote a speculative product with a whopping $330k investment behind it.

Exterminate All the Brutes on HBO looks like tough but necessary stuff.

So the New Mutants finally showed up on HBO Max and it is ... pretty good? At least I thought it was pretty good. It was def. better than the last two X-Men movies.

For the next 2 days I have Netflix, Prime, Crave+HBO, Disney+, Criterion and Mubi. halp?

Sign out and take a walk

So the New Mutants finally showed up on HBO Max and it is ... pretty good? At least I thought it was pretty good. It was def. better than the last two X-Men movies.

You are the only person out of a dozen I've heard mention this who didn't hate it fwiw

New Ted Lasso coming in July

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-stBDiXNk

You are the only person out of a dozen I've heard mention this who didn't hate it fwiw

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, April 18, 2021

this movie opens and closes with a native american character recounting the bullshit made-up-by-colonizers "two wolves" parable and appears to have been made for about $8K as a student project but is still definitively better than Dark Phoenix.

Shout Factory has a bunch of old Dick Cavett episodes, puzzlingly sorted into "seasons" even though the actual categorization is thematic. I've been watching some of the ones with writers - part of the fun is how the selection mixes up his 70's variety show with later 30min interview shows, one of which - from the early 90's - has a vaporwave a f intro. Allen Ginsberg casually reading out FBI tactics to undermine the left that he got through a freedom of information request! The Kurt Vonnegut episode is entirely about Mozambique!

"this movie opens and closes with a native american character recounting the bullshit made-up-by-colonizers "two wolves" parable"

yes but I was happy they hired an actual native actress to play this role (I'm Oglala and so is she)

Seen a lot worse than Shadow and Bone, which is formulaic YA fantasy but openly so and concentrates instead on production value and a cracking cast

enjoying mare of easttown on hbo/hbo max its p sordid and pulpy in all good ways (so far)

realized its the reunion of winslet & guy pearce from come anticipate HBO's MILDRED PIERCE with me (kate winslet star, todd haynes directs)

yeah there was a little bit of discussion (not much) on the police procedurals thread

I mostly love it but thought the montage of local kids being interviewed was really jarring

yes but I was happy they hired an actual native actress to play this role (I'm Oglala and so is she)

― akm, Sunday, May 2, 2021

sometimes the wolf feeds you <3