![]() ![]() ![]() George Clooney’s corporate “downsizer,” Ryan Bingham, soon finds himself fighting for his own job amid company budget cuts. And yet 2009’s Up in the Air really sits with you long after viewing. In what could be the most perfect sports-meets-business movie, 2011’s Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, whose stroke of genius in just trying to balance a budget results in the complete overhaul of Major League Baseball.Ĭertainly, there are more soul-killing jobs than being assigned to conduct layoffs at local offices across the country. (And, of course, that doesn’t go to plan.) ![]() One of their products happens to catch the eye of a beauty conglomerate bigwig (Hayek), who proposes to buy their business and seemingly promises them creative and financial autonomy. Starring Salma Hayek, Tiffany Haddish, and Rose Byrne, the plot follows a pair of childhood friends turned business partners (Haddish and Byrne) who have their own private beauty brand that’s growing a loyal customer base. Let me get this out of the way right now: This movie is ridiculous. Word to the wise: Either eat a big meal before watching or plan to eat while streaming. Favreau’s character decides to head back to his roots, trying to find his flavor again by launching a food truck in Miami. Written, coproduced, directed by, and starring Jon Favreau, Chef follows a head chef in Los Angeles who up and quits his job amid frustration with a domineering restaurateur and after an altercation with a food critic. ![]() Of course, someone made a movie about one. Somewhere between 20, food trucks ate the planet. Quite possibly the only success story to emerge from the mess was the production of these companion documentaries themselves. No need to go into what happened (in case you missed it) as both documentaries will break it down, but what’s remarkable is that each production comes at the story from different angles with different voices. There was a brief period in 2018 when you couldn’t go to a café or bar (indoors even!) in any major city without overhearing a variation on the question, “So, have you watched the Hulu documentary or the Netflix one yet?” This would undoubtedly have been a reference to the almost simultaneously released documentaries about the infamous Fyre Festival in the Bahamas in 2017. Where to watch: HBO The Fyre Festival Documentaries: Fyre Fraud and FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened The Inventor also includes interviews with analysts and journalists who followed Theranos during its rise and fall-among them Fortune’s Roger Parloff, who speaks candidly about his own reporting on the once-wunderkind, now-disgraced Silicon Valley unicorn. (Seriously, can you imagine if Theranos was still around in its prime form and trying to peddle COVID tests?) Building off the momentum from Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou’s monumental investigative reporting and subsequent bestseller Bad Blood, which revealed Theranos’s blood tests to be a complete sham, The Inventor adds faces to many of the voices who spoke out and blew the whistle on Theranos-not only to the detriment of their careers but at risk to their personal safety. Speaking of notorious scam artists, there might be none more fascinating, peculiar, or infuriating than Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Courtesy of HBO The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley ![]()
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