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Vulture Movies Fantasy League Recruitment Episode (2026)
If you’re like us and you love movies but also want your cinephilia validated by points awarded in an online competition, then you’ve come to the right place! Every year we at The Long Take Review head on over to Vulture to participate in t...
Summer Superlatives 2026
Summer’s coming to an end, and for those of us invested in the health of the box office, it was a great one. In fact, the U.S. box office broke an all-time record with 4.76 billion! This made our annual look back at summer movie season all...
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Review
On September 22nd, director George Lucas and business leader Melody Hobson will unveil their brainchild, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, to the general public in Los Angeles. On September 5th, P.T., Greg (yes, Greg who lives across the c...
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Review
Whether or not they are personally into the films of Jane Schoenbrun, critics largely agree that the director of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), and now Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), is a...
2019 Oscar Fairy Flashback
For many Oscar pundits and fans, the 91st Academy Awards, held on February 24, 2019, and honoring the films of 2018, became the most notorious when Green Book, a heartwarming odd couple comedy about a black pianist and his white driver, won...
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Professor of Writing @ USC. English/Cinema Studies PhD @ Northeastern. English/Expository Writing @ Brown. Writing teacher for 20+ years. Film and television critic for life. Letterboxd: @QuiGonJen
(He/Him) I spend all my free time reading books, watching movies, and absorbing the discourse around nerd culture. Making sure I also take the time to hone my thinking and refine my eye has led to this substack!
Associate Professor of Writing at USC. I spend too much time thinking about all of this.
Fiction writer, lawyer and Professor of Writing @ USC. JD @ Yale Law. MFA (Fiction) @ Boston University. Avid cinephile and foodie. Doesn't know how to ride a bike.
I love my wife. I love my kids. I love stories. Especially Star Wars stories. Host of The ColbyCast, your place for community and conversation about pop culture and storytelling. Available on podcatchers everywhere.
Dan Zehr is the host of Coffee With Kenobi and co-author of several books. When not examining the galaxy far, far away, he works as a high school English teacher, emphasizing Mythology and Composition, and has an MS in Education.
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