Cordkillers 401 - Ultimate Butt Groove
Big news out of The Oscars: a streamers wins Best Picture for the first time! Plus, Google is changing their movie and TV retail options and a new Roku OS brings more features. All that and more on Cordkillers!
This week on It's Spoilerin' Time: Picard (204), Our Flag Means Death (Season 1), Miami Vice (301, "When Irish Eyes Are Crying")
Next week: Picard (205), Moon Knight (101), Miami Vice (304, "Walk-Alone")
CordKillers: 401 - Ultimate Butt Groove
Recorded: March 28 2022
Guest: None
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Hard Cell
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With 'CODA' Win, the Oscars Streaming Ceiling Has Finally Been Broken
Apple First Streamer to Win Best Picture Oscar for CODA
Apple TV+ Just Won Best Picture at the Oscars. Everything Is Different Now
‘CODA’ Wins At The 2022 Oscars For Best Picture
2022 Oscar Streaming Scorecard: Here’s Who Won at the Academy Awards
- It was an unprecedented night at the Academy Awards Sunday as I'm sure you heard.
- That's right,CODA won Best Picture. A first because a film released at Sundance had ever won Best Picture before.
- Oh and it's the first best picture with a predominantly deaf cast.
- Also Apple Original Films distributed it so that's the first time one of the big tech companies took home the top prize. The film also got best adapted screenplay (Siân Heder) and Best supporting actor (Troy Kotsur). Kotsur became the second deaf actor to win. The first was his CODA- costar Marlee Matlin who won in 1986 for :Children of a Lesser God. Those are all Apple's first Oscars as well.
- If you're wondering about Netflix, this is the fourth straight year they had a movie in contention and didn't win. 2018 it was Roma, 2019 The Irishman, 2020 Mank and this year The Power of the Dog. Netflix won one Oscar for best Director which went to Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog. It also got 3 nominations for The Tragedy of Macbeth, none of which won. Apple has only ever been nominated twice before, both last year.
- Netflix had the most nominations of any studio with 27. But int he end, streaming services took home 4 Oscars. Last year, the number was 9. Although you could make an argument to count Dune and King Richard as streaming movies because they had simultaneous release, it was not distributed by Warner Brothers, not by Warner Media's treating division.
How to Watch
Google Play is stripped of movie and TV show sales
- Let's say you live in the Google ecosystem and you want to buy a movie or TV show. For clarity we'll just say a show to mean a movie show or TV show.
- In 2019 the answer was - Go to Google Play Movies and TV section or the Google Play Movies and TV app on your smart TV device. To watch the movies you could use those apps or YouTube which also accessed shows you purchased from Google.
- Then these things happened
- October 2020 Google changed its Android Google Play movies and TV app to be called Google TV
- June 15, 2021, Google ended the Google Play Movies and TV app for smart TV platforms.
- And Tuesday Google announced that in May this year the Google Play Movies and TV section will go away.
- This is all to simplify things. Here's how simple it is.
- If you want to buy a movie or TV show from Google, go to the YouTube app or website. On Android, Android TV and Google TV (the operating system) you can also use the Google TV app.
- To play them back you can find them on YouTube and YouTube TV, as well as the Google TV app on Android, Android TV and Google TV and the Play Movies app (which also works for TV shows) on iOS and Apple TV.
- It's that easy.
Google Play Movies & TV is now Google TV, including the app
Google is killing “Google Play Movies & TV” on smart TVs
Oh and YouTube just added 4,000 episodes of TV shows available to stream free with ads in the US.
"“Hell’s Kitchen” and “Kitchen Nightmares,” “Andromeda,” “Heartland,” “Scream Queens,” “Unsolved Mysteries,” “Sanctuary,” “Hidden Palms,” “21 Jump Street,” “Iron Chef,” “Brewster Place” and “Are We There Yet?”"
What to Watch
Voltron Movie in the Works From 'Red Notice' Director, but Not on Netflix
- Director of Red Notice, Rawson Marshall Thurber is on board to direct a Voltron movie. Hollywood Reporter says it is still being pitched to studios. Despite Netflix's obvious connection to Rawson and Voltron, apparently Netflix is not in the running for this one.
NFL Broadcasting Lion Al Michaels Moves To Prime Video, Teaming With Kirk Herbstreit In ‘Thursday Night’ Booth
- Al Michaels is synonymous with US sports, especially NFL football, and he's moving to Amazon. He and ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit will announce Amazon's exclusive Thursday Night Football games, starting September 15th. Amazon has streamed Thursday night games in the past, simultaneously with broadcasters, but this season Prime Video will be the only place to watch the Thursday games.
'Mystery Science Theater 3000' is back on a dedicated streaming platform
- Netflix declined to pick up a third season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, so they returned to Kickstarter and bootstrapped their own. On May 6th, the new season will launch on Gizmoplex, a platform made by the MST3K folks available on the Web, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, rook and Fire TV. All classic episodes will be available. Some content will be free, free for a limited time, available for purchase on demand and available as part fo a season pass. Individual episodes will cost $10, a three-month pass is $50, and a full season from May 22 to February 23 is $135.
Eyes On
Brian: Back to Harley Quinn,
Tom: Atlanta
On the Lookout: Our Flag Means Death
Front Lines
Roku OS 11 will let you set your own photos as a screensaver
- Roku announced Roku OS 11. The new version lets you use your own photos on the screen saver, adds new speech clarity settings. Roku Speakers get new sound modes: Standard, Dialogue, Movie, Music, and Night modes. A new "what to Watch" option will show up in the Home Screen menu with popular and recently released material. Voice-enabled keyboards are getting Spanish, German, and Portuguese support. And Roku's mobile app will show more info on TV shows and movies, including where to stream them for free or through your existing paid accounts.
HBO Max Adds Shuffle Play To Its Offerings, Allowing Streaming On 45 Shows
- HBO Max has added a shuffle option to 45 shows. If you're watching on a Desktop you can choose to shuffle episodes from the show's information screen. Among the shows with ruffles will be Adventure Time, Chappelle Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Friends, Key and Peele, Rick & Morty, Robot Chicken and The Office.
Netflix bought yet another studio as part of gaming push
- Netflix bought Boss Fight Entertainment, the video game studio behind Dungeon Boss. Netflix previously acquired Night School and Next Games. Netflix also released a new round of game releases, including its first first person-shooter, called “Into the Dead 2: Unleashed”. Netflix also added "Shatter Remastered and This is a true story, to bring their total number of titles to 17.
Crunchyroll ends free streaming for new and continuing series
- Crunchyroll announced it will no longer offer free ad-supported streaming for newly-released episodes. You'll have to upgrade to the paid plan for those, which starts at $7.99 a month. Previously, new episodes were delayed by a week for free users. Some shows will have the first three episodes available for free as a "sampler" one week after their premiere.
Johnny Carson Biopic Series Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt From David Milch & Jay Roach Hits Marketplace
‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 2 Teaser Reveals First Look at Cara Delevingne and Amy Schumer’s Characters
‘Grace and Frankie’ Final Season Gets Premiere Date (TV News Roundup)
- Deadwood creator David Milch is putting together a series called King of Late Night, about Johnny Carson, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
- Hulu released a teaser trailer for season 2 of Only Murders in the Building showing Amy Schumer as herself.
- Netflix's Grace and Frankie will premiere its final seaosn on April 29th.
Dispatches from the Front
Regarding Andy Beach's email about what is and isn't legal regarding cloud DVRs, Steve speculates that maybe what's legal doesn't even matter.
He suggests that "as part of arranging for the rights to include each channel in their service, they included the right to do DVR the way they want to do it. An arrangement with the content provider negates the law in this regard, since this law is intended to tell you what you can do with the content without having to get permission from the copyright holder."
- Steve
I could not watch Raised By Wolfs season two till it was over and saved the Spoilerin' Time episodes till I completed the show. I watched it this weekend and listened to all of your analysis today and it is just proof that binging is better. Every show you were sounding disappointed but hopeful for the next show. Then the sting would play again and disappointment in the show would be talked about again. I rode that roller coaster from the top of the hill reminiscing about season 1 the depths of dismay at the season finale. Thank you for your talking about the show was far better than the show itself.
- Francis
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