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Here at the festering butt end of an excruciatingly hellish 2020, it’s easy to forget how completely transformed the subscription streaming video business is just 14 months after the industry’s current era began. Back then, subscription video was a promising but not yet significant addition to the entertainment offerings of most big media and tech companies. Disney+ and The Mandalorian, Netflix was Netflix, and Hulu and Amazon had a few award-winners, but streaming was hardly crucial to...

TV and film production may have been halted by the coronavirus pandemic, but for many 2020 will be the year they consumed more shows and movies than ever before. Staying home meant turning to our screens - and we went from not quite believing our eyes while watching Tiger King at the start of the year, to desperately trying to figure out who killed Elena Alves in On Sky News TV and film podcast Backstage we discuss the big new releases each week. Now, using a complicated scoring system that e...

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The Lost Year: Exercise in quarantine, keeping a business alive, and the unusual intimacy of Zoom Vox.com 12/31/2020 This is , a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Zoom fatigue is real. In early May, I asked a good friend of mine if she wanted to hop on Zoom, and she sighed. “I’m so sick of Zoom,” she said. “I just can’t do it anymore.” For so many of us, the endless array of virtual meetings at work and virtua...

Twenty-twenty has been a year of disappointment for all of us — except for Jeff Bezos, who gets to make money during a pandemic by exploiting his workers and avoiding taxes. Much has been said about the state of cinema this year and just how much of a disaster releases have been, what with arthouses and multiplexes alike having to close down for the safety of their workers and audiences alike. But this isn’t to say that there hasn’t been a lot of beauty in the world of film amid all the g...

The Best Films of 2020: How We Watched Movies Changed, But Artistic Brilliance Wasnt Defeated Share The Best Films of 2020: How We Watched Movies Changed, But Artistic Brilliance Wasnt Defeated In a year where the film industry was decimated, exceptional cinema still prevailed. The past year has been devastating. The world continues to reel from the tragic effects of the novel coronavirus. The film industry was decimated by the pandemic. Theaters are still closed across vast metropolitan region...

In the final moments of 2020, its time to bid adieu to a year full of shocking twists. Theaters around the world have closed, reopened and then closed again. Hollywood has either postponed its biggest titles or relegated them to streaming platforms in unprecedented marketing maneuvers. But good movies were somehow still abundant in this otherwise cursed year — you just had to hunt a little harder for them. Looking at the 10 titles I plucked from my master list, I see a lot of smaller, ...

(Clockwise from upper left) A "Black Lives Matter" protest in Brooklyn, N.Y., a shuttered AMC movie theater, a "Stop the Steal" protest in Atlanta, Ga., and the short-form streamer Quibi. Something significant shifted in media this year — and its not just about the pandemic keeping us inside, glued to screens. Its all due to a simple idea: cater to the will of the consumer. With todays fragmented, social media-fueled pop culture environment, the consumer has never had more power. A random twe...

READING From The Beastie Boys to The Last Dance, the best music moments from film and TV in 2020 29.12.2020 From The Beastie Boys to The Last Dance, the best music moments from film and TV in 2020 The Last Dance High Fidelity, I May Destroy You, Lovecraft Country and more. Wow, what a year! Yes, a lot of shitty things happened, but for optimistic fans of film and television there was nothing but an abundance of downtime to sift through new and previously...