30 Jul 2023

Sarah McMullan: Should we stop going to movies to support the Hollywood strikers?

From Sunday Morning, 10:45 am on 30 July 2023
Members of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild walk a picket line outside of Warner Bros Studio in Burbank, California, on July 26, 2023. Tens of thousands of Hollywood actors went on strike at midnight July 14, 2023, effectively bringing the giant movie and television business to a halt as they join writers in the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)

Photo: VALERIE MACON

Is it ethical to watch movies during a strike? Should moviegoers strike too? Will the strike actually kill Hollywood?

Sarah McMullan is familiar to the RNZ audience. She watches a lot of films and writes about some of them for Rotten Tomatoes and other websites.