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announcing the Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ Win With Women Movie Giveaway

Tue, Jun 11, 2024
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Win a subscription to Film Movement Plus, streaming a curated selection of acclaimed features from around the world, including festival prize winners, cult and arthouse classics, documentaries and more.

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TFW your site is accidentally valuable, or: why sponsored posts now?

Mon, May 20, 2024
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I promise that I will minimize the impact of any sponsored content to you as much as possible. I welcome your feedback on this now or at any point once — if — it takes off.

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FlickFilosopher.com now accepting sponsored posts

Sun, May 19, 2024

On an extremely limited and highly selective basis. I have worked long and diligently to earn and keep the respect of my readers, and I am not willing to lose that.

behold the Beyond the Sight & Sound Canon (I’m one of the critic contributors)

Mon, Apr 08, 2024
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I have never been a part of the Sight & Sound poll, so I was extra excited to be asked to contribute to this project.

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Loaded Question taking a break for a while

Tue, Mar 19, 2024
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Those posts haven’t been getting much engagement, so I think it’s best to stop beating this dead horse.

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my picks for tonight’s 96th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2023’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 11, 2024
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I correctly guessed 12 out of the 23 categories, which is a little worse than how I did last year but better than the year before. So about par for the course for me.

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loaded question: what movies beyond ‘Mary Poppins’ deserve a rethink of their official ratings?

Mon, Feb 26, 2024
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What older movies might warrant a rethink, either to acknowledge their suitability to audiences of all ages or to restrict them to more discerning adults?

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loaded question: what location, specific or general, inevitably makes you think of a line of movie dialogue?

Mon, Feb 19, 2024
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Like you’re constitutionally incapable of not muttering a line of dialogue to yourself when you’re in that particular place?

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loaded question: what are your memories of ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’ as we approach its 25th anniversary?

Tue, Feb 13, 2024
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It’s almost impossible to convey the level of excitement and anticipation if you didn’t experience it that spring and summer of 1999…

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now make donations via PayPal even without a PayPal account

Sun, Feb 11, 2024
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Make a one-time or recurring donation via PayPal with a debit or a credit card without needing to sign up for a PayPal account. Easy peasy.

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