About my Substack

Ever finish a movie and immediately need to talk about it for weeks?

That’s me. Every time.

I’m Marina and I can’t stop analyzing films. The way a painting appears in the background of a scene, the queer subtext nobody’s talking about, the book a character’s reading that changes everything. Some people watch movies but I dissect them, or I least i try.

This newsletter is where I do that. Messily. Passionately. Monthly (ish).

What You’ll Find Here

📽️ Monthly film diaries: Everything I watched, loved, hated, or can’t stop thinking about

🎨 Art in cinema deep dives: When filmmakers use paintings, sculptures, or design to tell stories within stories. Director x Artists. Movies that actually look like artworks.

🏳️‍🌈 Queer film analysis: The history, the subtext, the characters who haunt us

📚 Literature on screen: Books in movies and why directors choose that specific novel in that specific scene

🖼️ Visual essays: Color theory, composition, production design, all the stuff that makes cinema fascinating to me.

📺 Tv Highlights: Yes, I’m faithful to cinema, but if a tv series grabs me, you’ll hear about it

At least once a month, sometimes more when I’m obsessed with something (which is often)and i have time to rant about it (not that often).

Who This Is For

You, if you:

If you establish parasocial relationships with movies. And with Letterboxd.

Think “that was gay” at least once per viewing.

Appreciate passionate movie rambling.

Want someone to validate your film obsessions (or argue about them)

I mean this isn’t academic film theory. It’s not review scores or hot takes for clicks. It’s me, watching too many movies, feeling too many feelings and writing about why that one scene won’t leave my brain.