Moviegoing with Bill

Recommended by Bill Arceneaux

ReportNOLA

By Jennsen Bentley

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

No More Popcorn

By Abby Olcese

Film reviews, writing updates and thoughts from a faith and film obsessive.

The Hot Button

By David Poland

An inside perspective on the Film/TV/Streaming Industry from a 30-year veteran seeker of truth.

Black Film Archive by Maya S. Cade

By Maya Cade

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.

Sitting in Silence

On writing, craft, worry & joy.

The voice of the writing community. Always a source of positive reinforcement and encouragement.

- Bill Arceneaux

Modern Medieval

By Matthew Gabriele

european middle ages, history, news, books, pop culture (by David M. Perry & Matthew Gabriele)

Ergo, Clint Worthington

Movies, TV, writing, podcasts, anything an exhausted lil bi can muster.

Commentary Track

By Matt Goldberg

A newsletter on Movies, TV, and Media

Heavy Crown Press

By Ashley Rovira

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

Sims City

By David Sims

I'm David Sims and I love movies

Between Art and Life

By Ethan Warren

“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life...the cinema both gives to life and takes from it.” - Jean-Luc Godard

Between Rock and a Hard Place

By Greg Mitchell has new 'Between Rock and a Hard Place'

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

Hope For Film

By Ted Hope

Ted's thoughts on film & the creative process

Belle Point Press on Substack

By Casie Dodd

Celebrating the literary culture and community of the American Mid-South

polaroid notebook

By bradley warshauer

accessorized messages from a notebook with a polaroid rainbow cover

The Hartmann Report

By Thom Hartmann

Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day.

Assertive and unafraid. Thom rocks against the left grain when needed, and pushes for the progressive picture in every post.

- Bill Arceneaux

The Mind of Ryne

By Ryne Hancock

sometimes sports, sometimes nola, sometimes politics

Pop 'n' Pizza

By Adam Frazier

Pop Culture & Pulp Fiction

Read Max

By Max Read

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

The Teenage Bottlerocket of Substack. Probably not written by an actual teen, but has the spirit of that band. Skate or Die with Max!

- Bill Arceneaux

Kristomania!

By Kristen Lopez

Kristen's Thoughts on Writing, Books, Movies, and Living in LA

Notes on Videographic Criticism

By Will DiGravio

News, links, writings, interviews and more.

THE authority on and THE resource for the video essay community. From F FOR FAKE to B FOR BEST (so to speak).

- Bill Arceneaux

franknews

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

Popular Information

By Judd Legum

Independent accountability journalism.

projecting

By Jourdain Searles

keep track of the short, loud girl with the glasses and her many endeavors

TypeTown

By Neil Barraclough

Celebrating the typewriter’s place in history and modern culture.

The Last '80s Newsletter (You'll Ever Need)

By Drew McWeeny

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

Madwomen & Muses

By Angelica Jade Bastién

cinema. art. staying alive with mental illness.

Good Eye: Movies and Baseball

By Noah Gittell

movies, baseball, and also baseball movies

Formerly Dangerous

By Drew McWeeny

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

Event-level movie writing. Film Crit Jimmy Olsen, the most enthusiastic of all of us!

- Bill Arceneaux

GOOD FOLK

By Spencer George

Exploring storytelling, community, artistry, and empathy across rural America and the American South.

Inside Nollywood

By Daniel Okechukwu

Taking you inside Nollywood

Notes from a Small Press

By Anne Trubek

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.

The Reveal

By Scott Tobias

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

Michael Moore

Writer. Filmmaker. Podcaster. Eagle Scout. Citizen.