The LearnexDD “video store” will open on Wednesday, December 10. Let’s go.
As our Gizmodo colleague, Lucas Materk, wrote last month when the feature was announced:
It is certainly a pleasant turn of events for the popular film site – and perhaps not what most users expected after its acquisition by Tiny, who bought a large site, when a large company buys a small small site, bad things happen. However, since Tiny took over LetterboxD, the site has continued to thrive and evolve in great ways. The new rental integration seems to be the ticket to keep users coming back for more.
And Lucas was, and remains, good. People say it’s bad at Gizmodo, but as more details have emerged about what the box is trying to do here, it just sounds cool and cool, until there’s nothing more involved, but we’ll see if that turns out to be worth it.
According to the variety, the titles of the video store will cost between $ 3.99 and $ 19.99 (!) to rent in the US, with the same windows of viewing hours that other acceptable paid services allow viewers to “Rent” content. The price will vary based on the territory – with certain restrictions that are intended to be learveboxd different for a given country.
Which brings us to what this looks like best: productivity.
At launch there will be only nine movies to choose from – perfect for a big movie-mainliining weekend. Four of them are topics that have not been classified before, and judging from the latest Learnol Blog Blog about the video store, (mostly) looks badly promising.
The “store” will be divided into two shelves “. One called “unclassified gems,” and called “lost and found.” Here are the gems “unclassified:
- It ends. Gen-z horror – comedy about the endless highway.
- Wound: wife from the future. Indonesia Sci-Fri-Romance / Time Loop Movie in Croatia.
- Kennedy. Hindi language crime movie. LetterxD book reviewers aren’t so kind on this particular thing, but oh well. One good review calls it “gritty alinestic neo-noir,” so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt anyway.
- The mysterious gaze of the flamingo. Chile Aids Mallomy About a disease that spreads when a person carries it. It won the UN Special Recognition Award in Cannes earlier this year.
Various means the “lost and found” Shelf will include the following: Tiger on the beatthe 1988 yun-fat movie directed by Lau Kar-Leung; Kisapmata Since 1981, it is often called the greatest Filipino film of all time; You must be in heaven2019 Comedy / Drama about a Palestinian man who goes abroad; PoisonTodd Haynes’ famous 1991 thriller and the film that made his career; and Before we disappearKiyoshi Kurosawa 2017 Attack of body snatchers riff.
If you are a LetterBoxD Elite user, you must have logged in or understood all of this already or did you do something else?
Depending on how you can stream, the FAQ provided by LetterboxD gives you a limited list of options: the Apple TV app, or stream the movie you’ve chosen to your TV from a browser via Apple Airplay or Chromecast. A notable omission from that list is Roku.
In any case, if you use LetterboxD, prepare to see these movies appear according to your user activity, pique your curiosity and FOMO.
