""The thing I don't understand is how you lose money running a laundromat," Hamrah writes, "especially if you own the building.""
""There it is, the Trump administration summed up in one weird double feature.""
"a weekly newsletter collecting together "pathetic and ridiculous" news stories about the movie business."
"summaries of news stories about Sam Altman, the "eyebrowless CEO of OpenAI," suggesting "AI might figure out on its own how to stop itself from ending the human race.""
Sharp short-form reviews and longer essays from 2019–2025 critique the film industry’s power structures, market failures, and cultural contradictions in the post-Covid era. Wry observations target specific films and cultural oddities, including a quip about the financial logic of Everything Everywhere All at Once and a comparison linking Donald Trump’s cinematic preferences to a political temperament. A weekly newsletter collects “pathetic and ridiculous” movie-business headlines, sent via EarthLink, cataloging items like sensational franchise explainers and technocratic anxieties about AI. Studio prioritization of algorithms over actors and marketing results in commercial mismanagement and the marginalization of serious films.
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