Carl Gillingham's Words & Pictures is a personal newsletter in which he discusses films, including Nolan's Inception and Fincher's The Game, as lessons for his unborn grandchild. Each issue pairs his casual commentary with an AI co-writer's more polished film analysis, along with occasional personal notes.
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A weekly newsletter that makes one New Yorker story free to read, drawn from culture criticism, politics and long-form journalism. Issues also include occasional podcast conversations on current affairs such as the midterm elections.
Unpopular Front is an independent newsletter of left-leaning essays on politics, history, and culture, including psychoanalytic and Marxist readings of media and commentary on current US political events. It also offers paid subscribers a regular roundup of reading, watching, and event recommendations.
Nelson George writes about Black music, film and culture, mixing interview-based profiles, remembrances and behind-the-scenes accounts of his own projects. Readers get first-person reporting and personal context from a veteran music and culture journalist and filmmaker.
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