Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Kevin Gosztola
Kevin Gosztola

638 Followers

Home

Books

About

Featured Book

Guilty of Journalism
Guilty of Journalism

A meticulous analysis of the US government’s case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and its implications for press freedom

2023

·
Kevin Gosztola
Kevin Gosztola

Stories

2 days ago

WGA Tentative Deal To End Strike: Writers Prevail Against Cruelty Of Hollywood Studio Executives

In July, the news media reported that Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and other companies were prepared to “break” the Writers Guild of America (WGA) during their strike. “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their…

Movies

4 min read

Cruelty Of Hollywood Studio Executives Fails As WGA Wins Tentative Deal
Cruelty Of Hollywood Studio Executives Fails As WGA Wins Tentative Deal
Movies

4 min read


Sep 18

‘Past Lives’: Celine Song’s Poignant Deconstruction Of Romance Films

*Note: I largely avoid spoilers, but as always, if you haven’t seen ‘Past Lives,’ you may want to skip this post. When I saw Celine Song’s first-time feature in a theatre, I was drawn to how the love story deconstructs romance films. The narrative centers on the philosophical concept in…

Film

3 min read

‘Past Lives’: Celine Song’s Poignant Deconstruction Of Romance Films
‘Past Lives’: Celine Song’s Poignant Deconstruction Of Romance Films
Film

3 min read


Sep 13

The Toronto International Film Festival’s Most Important Development

There has been a lot of buzz from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) around Kate Winslet’s performance as photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller, Elliot Page’s return to the movies, and the Talking Heads reunion for a presentation of the 4K restoration of Jonathan Demme’s “Stop Making Sense.” Critics…

Movies

4 min read

The Toronto International Film Festival’s Most Important Development
The Toronto International Film Festival’s Most Important Development
Movies

4 min read


Sep 10

Three Noir Films Celebrating Their 75th Anniversary

Every year, noir czar Eddie Muller and the Noir City Film Festival make a stop in Chicago at the beloved Music Box Theatre. The festival’s lineup for 2023 were all films released 75 years ago. The festival opened with “Key Largo,” starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson…

Movies

8 min read

Three Noir Films Celebrating Their 75th Anniversary
Three Noir Films Celebrating Their 75th Anniversary
Movies

8 min read


Sep 8

How To Make A Climate Heist Movie

With worldwide signs in 2023 that the climate has broken down, it is all too easy to feel despair and fearful that…

Film

4 min read

How To Make A Climate Heist Movie
How To Make A Climate Heist Movie
Film

4 min read


Aug 28

Returning To Medium: Programming Change

For the past year and a half, I have mostly ignored Medium. I have a newsletter called The Dissenter for publishing articles on whistleblowers, government secrecy, and press freedom. I now believe there might be some value to publishing on this platform, though not news articles or political essays. Going…

Announcements

2 min read

Announcements

2 min read


Sep 28, 2021

Pentagon-Backed ‘Black Hawk Down’ Championed Military Intervention After 9/11

[Editor’s Note: This is the third in The Dissenter’s weekly series on 9/11 and its impact on cinema, which will be published as a companion to our series, “Twenty Years In A Security State.”] During the 2004 presidential campaign, Vice President Dick Cheney defended President George W. Bush’s response to…

Film

10 min read

Pentagon-Backed ‘Black Hawk Down’ Championed Military Intervention After 9/11
Pentagon-Backed ‘Black Hawk Down’ Championed Military Intervention After 9/11
Film

10 min read


Sep 18, 2021

The Post-9/11 Climate Helped Turn The Satirical ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ Into A Flop

[Editor’s Note: This is the second in The Dissenter’s weekly series on 9/11 and its impact on cinema, which will be published as a companion to our series, “Twenty Years In A Security State.”] “After September 11, 2001, as American soldiers went into battle in Afghanistan and then Iraq, it…

Film

7 min read

How The Post-9/11 Climate Helped Turn The Satirical ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ Into A Flop
How The Post-9/11 Climate Helped Turn The Satirical ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ Into A Flop
Film

7 min read


Sep 6, 2021

9/11 Cinema: ‘The Siege’ Foreshadowed America’s Dark Transformation

[Editor’s Note: This is the first in The Dissenter’s weekly series on 9/11 and its impact on cinema, which will be published as a companion to our series, “Twenty Years In A Security State.”] Yunis Shokuri, who was a Guantanamo Bay prisoner for over 13 years, once recalled the plot…

Film

9 min read

9/11 Cinema: ‘The Siege’ Foreshadowed America’s Dark Transformation
9/11 Cinema: ‘The Siege’ Foreshadowed America’s Dark Transformation
Film

9 min read


Oct 31, 2018

Requiem For FilmStruck, A Streaming Service That Was Built For Film Lovers

AT&T-owned WarnerMedia’s announcement that FilmStruck will shut down at the end of November left many feeling incredulous. How can it be that this gratifying streaming service will no longer exist? Subscribers desperately hope the suits, who work at a mega-corporation which controls so much of our culture, will relent and…

Movies

9 min read

Requiem For FilmStruck, A Streaming Service That Was Built For Film Lovers
Requiem For FilmStruck, A Streaming Service That Was Built For Film Lovers
Movies

9 min read

Kevin Gosztola

Kevin Gosztola

638 Followers

Book Author

Journalist and movie fan. https://letterboxd.com/kgosztola/

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech

Teams