The Banker Review + Taking a Trip Around Apple TV+'s Offerings - Quarantine Collection - Ep 285

Our episode focuses on The Banker & Apple TV+ after we play good news/bad news to start the show. So we do vent about how America is now on lockdown & it’s effects on entertainment. But there are some hopeful signs from China and some good stories to stream in the U.S. AROUND THE MOVIE WORLD W/ CORONA: Cannes Officially Postponed - 2:59 What’s Being Done to Help Hourly Wage Workers - 5:45 AMC Pauses A-List Memberships - 9:28 (And Predicting the Future of the Industry) More Early and New VOD Releases From Sony, Pixar, etc - 13:02 (And WHICH Movie Will Dictate If Blockbuster’s Go VOD⁉️🤔) The Academy Considering Corona Changes - 15:52 IMAX CEO Think China Theaters May Open Soon - 19:31 QUICK REVIEWS AROUND APPLE TV+: The Library (or Lack Thereof) Apple TV+ Contains - 24:00 The 🐘 Queen, Mythic’s Quest: Raven’s Banquet - 25:15 Dickinson, The Morning Show☀️- 27:14 Servant, Others - 30:48 REVIEW OF APPLE TV+’s THE BANKER: SPOILER-FREE REVIEW: Expectations/Production Profile - 32:12 General Thoughts - 36:36 Ever An Oscars Movie? - 40:00 Watch or Not? - 40:40 SPOILER WARNING - 41:17 SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW: Best/Worst: Meaney Brings The Heaty - 42:40 Best: Samuel L Samule L-ing- 44:56 Best: Framing the Dilemma/Performances - 48:40 Worst: Characterization and Conflict - 50:00 Worst: Cliches + Speaking The Tropes - 51:37 (Including 3 Cliches 💥💥💥) Worst: 🚭 Smoking in the Boys Room 55:25 FINAL GRADES - 57:01 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 58:03 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 58:54 We begin the episode with another coronavirus quarantine update regarding the entertainment business & how Hollywood is reacting to the crisis. Here, we start out with the bad news about the jobs & likely the movie theaters lost. But the movie business has responded with some hopeful measures. Netflix & AMC seem to be taking care of people, we have more streaming / VOD options in regards to our movie watching, and there’s hope that Chinese movie theaters will reopen with an exciting marketing strategy to help their country transition from their quarantine. Apple TV+ offers a unique array of movies, shows & specials, and we review several watches since we started our free trial, including The Elephant Queen, Mystic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, Dickinson, and The Morning Show. We also discuss what else we’re excited to watch on Apple TV+ before ending the segment. Then we review The Banker, the latest original movie from Apple TV+ that debuted this weekend. As always, you get a non-spoiler section first with a production profile to introduce the movie & some general highlights before your customary spoiler warning & all our best and worst scenes. We thank you for all your love & support during these challenging times, and we wish you all health & safety. Hopefully all of you can find some engaging, fun, and worthwhile films & tv shows to watch at home, and hopefully, we can help you navigate all your choices with these episodes in our Quarantine Collection. We gave you a large roundup of options in our Watchlist Top 5’s show. Then we also dedicated full episodes to Lost Girls on Netflix, Big Time Adolescence on Hulu, and our next show will focus on Amazon Prime Video with Blow The Man Down. As always, we want to know what you think, and as ever, please take a few moments to rate us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you might listen. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar, and we’re making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. Thanks for listening.