culture
Why movies disappear from streaming
Streaming catalogues are rented, not owned. Licences run per country on a clock, and services now delete their own movies too. Here is the machinery underneath.
5 min
Writing
Writing, page 2
guide
IMDb vs Rotten Tomatoes: which score should you trust?
They count different things. One averages how much people liked a movie, the other counts how many critics did not dislike it. The gap is the useful part.
5 min
guide
How to stop scrolling and actually pick a movie
A practical method for deciding what to watch in under five minutes, why the usual advice fails, and the constraints that make choosing possible.
5 min
guide
The twenty-minute scroll: what choosing costs you
The average evening loses real time to deciding what to watch. Here is why more options makes it worse, and the small changes that actually shorten it.
4 min
product
How the Filmatic recommendation algorithm matches movies to you
No hand-waving about AI. The actual movie recommendation algorithm: what a swipe does, how movies match your taste, and what the system is bad at.
5 min