👨🏻💻 Happy Monday. To start, just a reminder to help as much as you can, check in on your loved ones and do anything you can to care for each other. We’ll get through this.
Today’s recommendation is for Steve Jobs — streaming on Netflix — the too-often overlooked Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic about the late Apple founder.
Here’s what it’s about: Told in separate three acts, each marking a major Apple product launch culminating with the iMac in 1998, Steve Jobs dives into what made the late tech giant a brilliant enigma. [Trailer]
Why you should watch it: What’s so refreshing about Steve Jobs is that it is so kinetic. Exposition and character building so often bog down biopics but this movie thrives off of it. Under the direction of Danny Boyle, the film moves at lightning speed. It helps that Aaron Sorkin loves the walk and talk because it keeps the film moving.
Without the needs for clunky exposition, the screenplay is able to just explore what made Jobs tick and, more importantly, what the things he couldn’t understand. It finds the humanity in this God-like figure. It helps that Fassbender and Kate Winslet — playing Apple marketing director — Joanna Hoffman give career-best performances. Steve Jobs proves that style and substance aren’t mutually exclusive, they can live together in a film successfully.
Directed by Danny Boyle // ⏱ 122 mins // 📅 2015 // 🎭 Drama
📺 Buy or Rent: Prime Video | iTunes | YouTube
In movie news
Every postponed movie release (so far)
Studios have made the unprecedented move to postpone the release of their largest blockbusters — some going as far as moving them to next year — in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Here are all the movies postponed:
No Time to Die: The 25th James Bond movie was the first film to be moved. The new release date is Thanksgiving weekend.
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway: New release date is August 7th, 2020.
A Quiet Place Part II: Director John Krasinski announced the postponement on Twitter. No new date has been announced, however it should be sometime this year.
F9: In the most drastic delay, the ninth Fast and the Furious movie was delayed until 2021.
Mulan: Director Niki Caro announced the delay shortly after the film’s world premiere. A new 2020 date is likely.
X-Men movie The New Mutants — likely the last outside the MCU — has been delayed for the fourth time. It was originally slated for 2018. The studio said it’s looking at a 2020 release date still, but I have a feeling it might go straight to Disney+.
Antlers, a horror movie produced by Guillermo del Toro, which had a later April release date was moved indefinitely.
This is just the beginning. Black Widow seems like the next to be delayed.
My take: This is a good move by the studios in the interest in public safety. However, it’s also a move to protect their bottom line as they look at a depressed market. But don’t forget that this affects movie theaters’ revenue (and their employees) and indie distributors that don’t have the resources to just move a release date. This is going to change the industry.
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Stay safe and see you Thursday!
Karl (@karl_delo)