The biggest challenge for our hosts is the amount of prep time and homework. Writing a few caustic lines about films like you find in most blogs and sales sites is easy. Preparing and writing a personal narrative about each film, coordinating it with pre-selected clips, rehearsing, choosing wardrobe, and navigating through the garment district of Manhattan to our studio…is a lot of work. MovieWithMe is like having an anchor desk at a cable news show only talking about movies instead of unemployment numbers. After going through make-up and getting settled in our studio, each host shoots between five and ten film reviews at a time. Sometimes we do wardrobe changes between reviews to better set the mood for certain films.

And there are rules you must follow: first, don’t wear anything green. We shoot in front of green screens, just like TV shows, so that we can put in appropriate backgrounds behind the hosts. If you wear green, that part of you disappears. All of our backgrounds are shot in New York City. Someday we will have an extensive photo archive of little-seen parts of New York that could be worth millions (we hope).

Why this effort? Because we believe personal video reviews are the best ways to decide if you are interested in seeing the movie. The offerings on Amazon and Netflix are vast, and multiplying every day. The efficient, effortless way through this clutter is to pick a host whose taste you trust, and follow him/her though film after film. Some rich people hire personal shoppers to pick out their clothes. Think of MovieWithMe as your personal film critic choosing movies that will look good on you.