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weekend watchlist: a movie worth paying premium VOD prices for

Wed, Jun 15, 2022
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Plus horrors fantastical, hellish, alien… and all too down to Earth. (First published May 14th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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weekend watchlist: a timely cure for collective cultural amnesia

Tue, Jun 07, 2022
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Plus drone warfare, murder most genteel, and more. (First published May 7th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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weekend watchlist: coming to terms with grief personal and societal

Mon, May 30, 2022
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Plus badass women and damned dirty apes… (First published April 30th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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weekend watchlist: the unbearable wait for massive success

Sun, May 22, 2022
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Plus a subtle dystopia and a subtle nervous breakdown. (First published April 22nd, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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loaded question: what episodic stuff are you bingeing, and why should we watch it?

Mon, May 16, 2022
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There is simply too much stuff to watch these days! So tell us what you’re watching, and why it’s worth our time (or not).

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weekend watchlist: where to stream (almost) every Oscar nominee

Sun, Mar 20, 2022
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In the run-up to the ceremony on Sunday, March 27th, you can watch almost every film that’s been nominated from the comfort of your sofa. Very handy if you’re participating in an Oscar pool.

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loaded question: which streaming services do you have regular access to… and watch regularly?

Tue, Nov 16, 2021
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I’m very curious to hear what you all have to say about this, because the streaming environment has gotten a bit out of hand: there are so many services, and it would be absurd — and expensive! — to subscribe to all of them.

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Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer and A Crime on the Bayou documentaries review: Black history matters

Fri, Jun 18, 2021
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Two new documentaries — one a shrewdly incisive work of journalism, the other a delicately elegant tale of injustice and friendship — tell all-but-forgotten histories of Black America. Of America.

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hidden gems from Amazon Prime, Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and Hulu

Sat, Apr 03, 2021
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Passion, creativity, and suspense in stillness… [A teaser of an essay for Patreon patrons and Substack subscribers only.]

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Kevin Smith is now cool with critics who don’t pay for movies (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, May 23, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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