CINEMA VARIETY

Variety? Really?

Well not on the various sites that I've signed up for.
We get Lightbox for 'free' because we are signed up with Spark for phone and internet.
I've subscribed to Netflix which costs a few dollars a month and am halfway through a trial subscription to MUBI which features classic films and 'art' ones that are normally seen in film festivals.

The problem is that the choices are pretty limited. There are a lot of them don't get me wrong but they are subject to other people's tastes and selections.

Lightbox is the most commercial and I find that 95% of the tv series, tv shows and films are unwatchable as they are 'lowest common denominator' stuff.

Netflix is a little bit better and I have found some good HBO-type tv series but generally the film selections are those chosen by some people definitely half of my age who have never seen a really good film and probably don't watch anything made before 1990.

MUBI has some good classics and hard to find 'real cinema' stuff but once again I am subject to someone else's selections and in this case some poseur types who 'wannabe' the next Leonard Maltin or Pauline Kael. MUBI's selections also only last for a brief period of time so you have to be watching every night.