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Jokes on you, Laika Studios, I cackled, after the UPS guy drove off.
I held it in my hands for about 11 seconds before putting it out on the curb.
When I went out again a few hours later, it was gone.
That person, however, was not me.
(There is absolutely no money in this stupid career!)
Yall, I am crying.
My #1 film of 2019 is@marriagestory.
Thank you@Netflix& Noah Baumbach!
But the past few years have seen a sharp increase in elaborately designed and absolutely enormous coffee-table offerings.
It mixes stills from the movie with behind-the-scenes images: props, costume sketches, etc.
Theres a critics essay from Tom Shone.
I cannot in good conscience put these books in my recycling pile.
(Assouline sells the books it published for Netflix for $175 on its website.
Pity the uninformed shelling out far more on eBay.)
But I do live in New York, where space is at a premium.
(The books in support of kids movies, though, get donated to his sons school library.)
I find them interesting because they suggest which movies the studios consider prestige films, he conceded.
Piles were a common theme.
Id rather just not receive them in the first place.
All they really do for me is create extra work.
Why would I want my home to look like the Netflix lobby?
another prominent L.A. freelance critic, writer, and broadcaster, who also asked to remain anonymous, says.
Mailing unwanted, expensive books is passive-aggressive psychological torture.
But I couldnt let another awards season pass without letting at least some of us speak our piece.
Including this anonymous critic, who would also like to cancel FYC pillows.
Ridiculous, hideous, useless.
