Hey everybody welcome back to another bald movies for the officially unofficial podcast for everything

cinema i'm your host a here on i'm jim and we are talking about something that was released on the

ever increasingly sized screens but that quite big screen the television screen via

Netflix High Flying Bird at Stephen Soderberg's latest film he shot it entirely

on an iPhone 8-I an 8th that's what it said that's what it said in Wikipedia article

starring Andre Hollins Zazzie Beets Melvin Greg Sonia Sune Zachary Quinto

Kyle McLaughlin and and Bill Duke.

It is a movie about a basketball agent who is stuck between a rock and a hard place

during an NBA lockout, where his players are going broke and he's going broke and his

parent agency squeezed them for money and it seems like the owners have all the power as

usually is the case when he have billionaires pitted against millionaires.

And I thought it was really interesting and engaging material despite being

essentially a sequence of about 20 speeches delivered into a camera.

What do you think, Jim?

It's definitely not my kind of movie, but I thought there were a lot of, like especially Andre Holland, a really sharp performance from him, kind of carried it for me. I think like I have a problem with a lot of really dense

dialogue and scenes rapid fire especially when I'm just trying to get my feet

under me at the beginning of this thing.

I was a little thrown by it because one of the reasons I say this is not a movie for me is I don't care about sports. I don't know much about them at all.

I understand the concept of a lockout in its most basic terms. But a lot of the

maneuverings and the culture of the NBA I don't understand. But it was interesting to watch and I think it was a well-made movie.

So I don't think it's bad.

I just maybe is not my type of movie.

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