Quibi. You've probably heard that word more today than, well, any other time in the recorded history of humankind. And with good reason! The mobile-first streaming service just launched today with a bunch of new content that you can watch ASAP. All for the price of free (for now). Quibi’s series are broken down into three categories--Movies in Chapters, Unscripted Series and Docs, and Daily Essentials--with new episodes of their programming released daily. With News, Sports and Weather releasing new episodes 7 days a week. As a part of Quibi’s launch offering, the first …
Love takes many forms in Amazon Prime Video’s new anthology series Modern Love, and as is the case with many anthologies, this one’s a mixed bag. Based on the weekly column published by The New York Times, each episode of the show tells a different love story—a beginning, middle, and end in 30 minutes. Spearheaded by filmmaker John Carney, who writes and directs four of the eight episodes, the show is romantic in nature, but unfortunately is more akin to Carney’s muddled 2013 feature Begin Again than his more effective films Once and, most recently, the …