If you’re new here and wondering what this site was/is, basically, it was a soapbox for the movie-related pontifications of some friends of mine and myself. We launched January 7th, 2013, and ran until December 19, 2016.
In Fall 2025, we returned! You can read new pieces, and all our old pieces, on our Smug Film Substack.
The old WordPress website that you are reading this right now on is considered defunct, but is being kept around for posterity / nostalgia. If this WordPress site is broken, it is because it is becoming ever-increasingly out of date. There’s nothing we can do about that. It will just die and die. BUT, literally ALL our old pieces, plus new ones, are on the Smug Film Substack. So just go there!
XOXO,
Cody Clarke
Editor-in-chief