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I discovered another web-site (I refuse to call it a blog) called Deadline Hollywood, written by Nikki Finke of LA Weekly. And I'm really liking it. She is hooked into movies and TV, and all the business and gossip attached to it.

Finke used to be the business reporter for the New York Post, before Disney forced them to fire her. There was a big lawsuit going on between Disney and the A.A. Milne estate over Winnie-the-Pooh, and she started unearthing these facts about Disney and their business practices. Needless to say, their shenanigans didn't make them look good. So, Disney threatened to sue the paper, and then the Post dropped her.

Anyway, check it out.
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Can you share your queue and ratings with others on Greencine like you can on Netflix? I like getting ideas from what other people are renting.
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I don't subscribe to either, but I have friends who do, and here are a few plusses and minuses as far as I can gather:

netflix: ships from many locations
greencine: ships only from one location in San Francisco, so if you don't live near there it might take a while to get discs

netflix: has a larger overall selection, especially on the TV-to-DVD side, and more copies of most titles. But they don't carry certain kind of content
greencine: carries DVDs with sexual content netflix won't (not just porn, but also Russ Meyer films too, for example). Also has a bigger selection of region zero imports, including (as a pair of examples) Akira Kurosawa's first film Sanshiro Sugata and my favorite Hong Kong gangster film Too Many Ways to Be #1. Carries some indepedent and out-of-print titles (like certain silent films) netflix doesn't. Also sells new DVDs and has Video-on-demand.

netflix: more impersonal service
greencine: more customer interaction

netflix: slightly cheaper
greencine: slightly more expensive
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Post by Penelope »

Oooh, thanks, Sonic; I've spent the last hour perusing the articles and it's precisely what I've been looking for.

By the way, are you (or anybody else on the board?) a Greencine subscriber? If so, how does it compare to Netflix?
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I'm sick of Movie City News; yeah, it's a great source for articles and information, but its snarky, cynical negativism has become increasingly tiresome (can't they link to the articles without some assinine comment? Apparently not.)

So, are there any other websites out there that are useful for finding interesting articles, pieces, commentaries, etc.?
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