The Unfranchised #9 — Outside the Wire

It's a brand new year, but COVID-19 is still here, which means, for many of us, movie-watching will remain strictly an at-home affair for the foreseeable future. Enter Netflix, which recently announced plans to release more than 70 new movies on the streaming service this year. One of the first is Outside the Wire, a new sci-fi/military-action thriller starring Anthony Mackie. In this episode, Bob and Stew tackle the strengths and weaknesses of that film before segueing into a general discussion about Netflix's plans to be your primary movie provider in these troubling times.

Our podcasters this episode are Robert Taylor and Stewart Smith. To make sure you catch every episode, you can subscribe to The Unfranchised via Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsStitcher or pick up our direct podcast feed. Theme music by The Zombie Dandies, licensed through the Free Music Archive (CC by 4.0).

Author: Robert Brian Taylor

Robert Brian Taylor is a writer and journalist living in Pittsburgh, PA. Throughout his career, his work has appeared in an eclectic combination of newspapers, magazines, books and websites. He wrote the short film "Uninvited Guests," which screened at the Oaks Theater as part of the 2019 Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Project. His fiction has been featured at Shotgun Honey, and his short-film script "Dig" was named an official selection of the 2017 Carnegie Screenwriters Script and Screen Festival. He is an editor and writer for Collider and contributes regularly to Mt. Lebanon Magazine. Taylor also often writes and podcasts about film and TV at his own site, Cult Spark. You can find him online at rbtwrites.com and on Twitter @robertbtaylor.