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| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 22 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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Ten Underseen Horror Films to Watch this Spooky Season
Ever since I first began watching movies in a serious way, I’ve always been a huge fan of horror. That love led me to my first film festival job at Fantasia. In my first years, I covered the festival as a critic. That would lead me to co-ho...
Excepts from My Dream Diary 2026
Not be safe for work, but...
Earlier this year I started to keep track of my dreams in a journal for the first time. I was very inspired by Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, which I read in 2025. This is not a complete diary but merely...
Wake Me Up When September Ends: The Best Reads and Watches of the month
Oops I did it again… got really depressed and spiralled hard
Depression hit hard at the beginning of the month. It was one year after the death of my father, the person I love the most in the world, and life seemed impossible to manage. I...
Eight Books to Become a Better Film Critic
People often ask me, how do you become a film critic? Let’s be real: many of them want to know can you make money writing about film (not really) but occasionally they mean, how do you learn to do what you do? They’re asking, “How do I beco...
Joan Didion and Hollywood: Amended and footnoted
Originally Published in March 2016 for Fandor, this is one of the many articles I’ve written that has been scrubbed from the Internet. I’ve republished here with amendments and footnotes.
Joan Didion grew up in Sacramento, the civic capita...
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Justine Smith is a writer who has been published in Little White Lies, Roger Ebert and Ultra Dogma. She programs the Underground Section at the Fantasia International Film Frstival
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