Netflix surprised everyone last Sunday when they announced that the third film in the Cloverfield franchise would be debuting on their streaming service immediately after The Big Game, despite nobody having seen it and there being no advance hype or build up. But was this a bold new approach to film distribution, or the result of Paramount, desperate to offload a bad film, finding an outlet for it? Why not both? Matt and Ed address these questions and more as they address the considerable flaws of The Cloverfield Paradox, and the greater conundrum of Netflix itself; a service which has the potential to bring films to a huge audience instantaneously, but which more often than not serves as a place where films go to be forgotten.
They also discuss the first Solo trailer and others bits of Star Wars news, get excited about the forthcoming Black Dynamite followup, and note the deaths of John Mahoney, Reg E. Cathey, and Johann Johannsson.
00:00:00 - 00:04:35 - Intro
00:04:36 - 00:38:17 - News
00:38:18 - 01:23:21 - Matt & Ed discuss The Cloverfield Paradox and Netflix more generally
01:23:22 - 01:31:16 - SRS Recommends & Outro
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359. News Round Up
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357. The Modern State of the Rom-Com
356. How We Would Fix the Oscars
355. Bad Movies We Can’t Stop Thinking About
354.Curation in the Streaming Age
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