Hello

 Let's be honest: this probably won't last, but I'm trying for now.

I am not a trained film critic. I never went to film school. I think I can personally tell the difference between good and bad direction, editing, etc, but I'm not versed in all the language and terms to explain why it's good or bad. If I get something completely wrong, tell me. 

As a fair warning upfront: I have no intention of making this an overly political blog, but I am an atheist socialist, and that will likely inform my writing. At times, it might even become my writing.

I'm calling this a film blog, but I reserve the right to talk about TV, comics, books, pro wrestling, and whatever else I've watched. Beyond that, I watch some new films, some old, some classics, some dirt awful slasher films, and a fair amount of European art films. I have no schedule and what I watch is usually decided seconds before I hit play.

This is probably not going to be the place for long form, deeply intelligent film criticism (I highly recommend alternateending.com for that, but ymmv) but I hope it's not overly stupid, and that it's fun.

I do not, as of yet, have any podcast, nor any immediate plans for one, but, you know, everybody is doing it so who knows?


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