Mendelson's Movie News Musings for 01/22/24

Netflix snatches away a Sundance chiller, why 'Jurassic World 4' is a no-brainer, why 'Tron: Ares' is a long-shot and what a 'Book of Eli' tv show says about streaming

This is something new, so we’ll see if the feedback makes it worthwhile. Since Substack is supposed to be a somewhat all-encompassing newsletter, I knew I couldn’t flood subscribers with three-to-six stories (meaning three-to-six emails) on a daily basis. And yes, there are film stories that break during the day which I might want to pontificate upon that don’t justify a full-on epic poem. For example, here are five quicker takes (all opinions and speculation are just that) on five of the day’s entertainment news bites that caught my attention. Let’s see how this goes…