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Recommended by Steve Bowbrick

London Centric

By Jim Waterson

Proper local journalism about who really runs London - and what's actually going on in the city.

North South Notes

By Vincent Bevins

Vincent Bevins

Contemporary chronicler of the stupidity and venality of capitalism.

- Steve Bowbrick

Damage Magazine

The present moment is severely damaged and in need of wide-ranging assessment.

Global Inequality and More 3.0

By Branko Milanovic

Global inequality and More 3.0

Cool People Have Feelings, Too

By Marya E. Gates

Home of the Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide. Here you will find writing about films directed by women, silent cinema, and other esoteric (mostly) film related stuff.

The Deleted Scenes

By Addison Del Mastro

Urbanism, culture, idiosyncrasy

The Screen Spectator

just a girl loving classic movies a bit too much. . .

Splendid golden age Hollywood histories.

- Steve Bowbrick

Municipal Dreams

The history of council housing

CLiuAnon

By Catherine Liu

Welcome to CLiuAnon. I'm here to criticize political, cultural and social infantilization. Paid subscribers get access to monthly discussion groups that discuss film, critical theory and. contemporary politics

Brilliant and furious critic of the professional managerial class.

- Steve Bowbrick

The Spread

By Madeline Ostdick

Monthly curated streaming programs.

movies, regrettably

By Ben Empey

movies, regrettably

StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry

By Stephen Follows

I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen.

Learning about cinema through data.

- Steve Bowbrick

Paragraphs about AI

By Steve Bowbrick

All these intrusive thoughts I keep having about AI, I’m going to put them here…

David’s Substack

By David Hendy

Occasional commentary about the BBC, media history, wartime propaganda, writing, and other stuff that matters (and sometimes doesn't)

Media historian and author of two of the best BBC histories.

- Steve Bowbrick

Home

By India

My journal x my Notes app - mostly books, food, interiors, shopping, home life, plus observations and enthusiasms.

Old New

By R. Emmet Sweeney

Nibbling at the periphery

The Film Around the Corner

By Zoë Kaperonis

Old Hollywood reviews, history, and recommendations from a young film historian with a passion for weird and wild world of the Hollywood of yesteryear.

Zöe Grant reviews old movies!

- Steve Bowbrick

The Old Hollywood Newsletter

The Old Hollywood Newsletter is a monthly publication celebrating vintage sensuality and the early years of Hollywood (mostly pre-1960).

Film and Animation History

By Film History

Thoughts on the history of film and animation.

Neurotivity: ADHD and creativity

By Ivan Pope Neurotivity

Writing about the connection between creativity and what we call Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the Wheel of ADHD and my coaching methods.

The Reveal

By Scott Tobias

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

Perfect Path

By Lloyd Davis

Helping People Be Brilliant In The Knowledge Economy

Lloyd's cracked it here - a proper blog delivered in email form. Interesting themes, personal insights, lovely writing.

- Steve Bowbrick

Against Mars: Space Colonization and its Discontents

By MANU

Writing the first draft of the book about humanity in space : chapter excerpts, research, reading notes and more, by Manu Saadia, author of "Trekonomics: the Economics of Star Trek"

Useful reminder that the only way anyone's going to get to a space colony is going to be sedated in a crate.

- Steve Bowbrick

GROSS - cinema history and criticism

Recommended by Steve Bowbrick