5mo ago

Are there still good movies review personal blogs? Which ones do you read? Looking for some content that would be more review and discussion oriented than industry news

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Paging @UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk
- May I offer:
  UKFilmNerd's Blog: The musings of a film nerd.
  Slight confession, since October, I've only written one review due to life/work issues but hopefully in a few weeks this will change.
  When everything is optimal, I usual put out three to four reviews every two weeks.
  (This is because I'm in a hotel 7 days in a row for work. What else am I going to do! 😆)
  Don't be afraid to nose around the site, there's years worth of content. You could even see how well writing improves/gets worse (delete as applicable 😂) over the years.
  Enjoy.
Drew McWeeny who used to write for HitFix and AICN has a substack called Formerly Dangerous that's pretty good. Otherwise these days I tend to just use reddit/facebook groups and letterboxd.
I don't know if any specific blogs that still operate in that sort of space, but I will say I've had luck with finding folks on letterboxd who put care and thought into their reviews. Admittedly, you still have to sort through a lot of "this was good! I liked it!"to find those reviewers, but it's not impossible. My starting spot was looking up the hosts of some of the movie podcasts I listen to (shout out to Blank Check and Eye of the Duck) and then seeing who they interact with on the platform, checking those folks out, and so on.
- Thank your for the suggestion!
I occasionally read Mike McGranaghan's The Aisle Seat and Dan Chilton's Dan Says its Alright.
And if I may be so bold, I'd like to offer up my own, Take 'Em to the Movies, Austin!. I aim to get up at least one review a week, along with the occasional list.
- Thanks for sharing!

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