
Essays about movies, and how they make me feel. Sometimes serious, sometimes not.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly | |
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| Issues | 28 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 22 days ago |
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We are not in a particularly hospitable moment for sincerity. Contemporary culture has become highly fluent in interpretation. Before a film has had a chance to mean anything, it has often already been sorted into a category. It is discours...
The Debate is my attempt to bring fun film arguments out into the open. A simple idea: one question with multiple answers. A group of writers makes the strongest case they can for their position, and the readers decide which argument surviv...
Steven Spielberg has always been there for me. I truly don’t have a memory of a time before I’d watched his movies.
As a kid at the start of every summer break, I would rewatch every VHS I owned. No order, no system. I’d ask one of my pare...
There was a time when the studio comedy felt like a pillar of Hollywood. A dependable lane with its own stars. Jim Carrey was opening films. Will Ferrell was carrying them. You knew what you were getting, and more importantly, you knew who...
It’s interesting how your Netflix algorithm can suggest your next favorite film, which, quite conveniently, just happens to be another film on Netflix.
Does anyone actually think their algorithm “knows” them in any meaningful way? You watc...
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