June Culture Diary
Glam rock, my first Substack interview, a day at the beach...
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Materialists mentioned…
I honestly take more issue with the promotion of the film than the film itself — I agree with
that it’s not really worth a second thought. But I’m very tired of walking out of movies explicitly (aggressively) marketed towards women and immediately reaching for my phone to warn various people in my life that there’s poorly handled material on sexual assault shoehorned into the plot. It took about 12 hours for the B Plot of The Materialists to make me nauseous, but when it hit me it really hit me. I’d like to have a fun time at the movies, please. Adds insult to injuryKeep reading with a 7-day free trial
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