Moviegoing with Bill

Award-winning author and film director ranges widely: from politics and media to music and movies.

Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.

Writer. Filmmaker. Podcaster. Eagle Scout. Citizen.

Deeper into movies (and a little TV). Essays, reviews, conversation. Past and present. From the editors of The Dissolve.

Every '80s movie released in America. Every single one.

What does a movie site look like when you don't want anything from the studios but the movies?

I write about books, theatre, film, philosophy, spirituality and anything that gets me thinking.

Independent accountability journalism.

Pop Culture & Pulp Fiction

Regular dispatches from and about the weird new future.

Celebrating the typewriter’s place in modern (and not so modern) culture.

brings context to a 24/7 news cycle through conversation — free of armchair experts, revisionism, and moralizing. No news is new.

On writing, craft, worry & joy.

by Thom Hartmann - Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day

News, links, writings, interviews and more.

Hyperlocal news focused on New Orleans, and especially New Orleans East

Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films. In its current iteration, it showcases every* Black made film from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming. This newsletter serves as its blog.