Self-Styled Siren

Actresses, awards, and cinematic musings

What do you want to watch tonight? I'm a movie critic with four decades in the trenches and I have some thoughts for you (not always about movies).

Charles Taylor's Substack

On crime fiction and true crime, current and long-ago releases, stuff I'm working on, and other related things.

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

The Cinephile's Guide to Finding Old and New Classic Films on the Internet

Harriet the Spy started it all. I’m a misanthrope who loves people. TCB.

Alleged Pretendians & Indigenous Perspective

Sole owner and cinematic barista - writing online about film since 2005. Cinema Studies at New York University. Unapologetic auteurist without the orthodoxy of the traditional canon.

My personal Substack

cinema. art. staying alive with mental illness.

Writings, long and short, about cinema, culture, and other moving images.

Blatant self-promotion for my novels because I never want to have a real job again. But, hey, it's only monthly and it's free.

Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films. In its current iteration, it showcases every* Black made film from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming. This newsletter serves as its blog.

writing about women & crime in cinema, from serial killers to mob wives and beyond