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  • TPB 2024 Alternative Movie Awards

    TPB 2024 Alternative Movie Awards

    Spoiler Warnings! Best Movie-Related Gift The viral popcorn bucket from Dune 2 What else could it have been but this infamous movie snack receptacle? Not

  • Ranked Choice Voting at the Oscars, Explained

    Ranked Choice Voting at the Oscars, Explained

    It’s that time of year again! The 96th Academy Awards is taking place next week and to help you win your office pool or impress

  • TPB 2022 Alternative Movie Awards

    TPB 2022 Alternative Movie Awards

    Today is the big day, with the Academy Awards as the culmination of awards season recognizing 2022 movies. Of course, we all know that the

  • Anna May Wong and the Great Yellow-faced “What If”

    Anna May Wong and the Great Yellow-faced “What If”

    It was recently announced that Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s “first Asian American movie star”, would be the first Asian American to appear on U.S. currency,

  • An Essential Guide to Letterboxd

    An Essential Guide to Letterboxd

    For the last ten years, whenever a specific issue or niche need comes up, our societal response has been: “there’s an app for that.” For

  • Death Comes for the Movie Theatres

    Death Comes for the Movie Theatres

    2020 has been a tumultous year for all of us; the movie industry has been no exception. In the same way that Amazon has been

  • #OscarsSoInclusive

    #OscarsSoInclusive

    The Academy Awards are often considered the most prestigious – certainly the most famous – movie awards, and it’s been around for almost 100 years

  • Streaming Services – A Breakdown

    Streaming Services – A Breakdown

    In the past few months alone, HBO Max, Peacock, and Quibi have been released, adding to the glut of streaming services available. Ten years ago,

  • Sundance Film Festival – How to Fest

    Sundance Film Festival – How to Fest

    I just came back from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT, and it was an epic weekend. Here are some things I learned:

  • Prologue: Castaway at the Movies

    Prologue: Castaway at the Movies

    The title of this blog comes from a quote in one of my all-time favorite films, the 2009 Korean dramedy Castaway on the Moon. After