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\nTomorrow, January 7th, marks the first anniversary of Smug Film! Thank you, everyone, who has visited our site in the last 365 days or so. I know I can speak for everyone here when I say that we are honored whenever anyone reads something on our site. In this Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, BuzzFeed world, sites like Smug Film\u2014ones that produce actual, substantial content\u2014seem to be disappearing. And so, when you choose to read one of our posts, you are voting, with your eyes and your brain and your free time, for the existence of full meals on the internet. Don\u2019t get me wrong, bite-size sweets are fine in moderation, but man <\/i>have they become rampant in the last couple years. It seems as though we\u2019re stuck in this weird time period where the less attention a thing takes, the more popular it is, and the more time people spend with it. Basically, it\u2019s like everyone\u2019s playing Candy Crush non-stop, whether they\u2019re even playing the actual game or not, ya feel me? But I digress.
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\nI\u2019m not here to rant and rave about the state of the internet. That\u2019s not what this post, or this site, is for. Our purpose here at Smug Film, as you well know by now, is to provide a soapbox for writers with new and interesting thoughts on cinema. The thought behind this being that there is strength in numbers\u2014had each of our critics, including myself, simply started their own individual movie blog a year ago, not a one would\u2019ve pulled anywhere near the amount of visitors that we pull together under one roof. Suffice to say, the \u2018experiment\u2019 has worked, and we are quite motivated to continue onward just as we have before, bringing unique and thought-provoking opinions on film to you fine folks every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.<\/p>\n

But we also have plans to expand our menu.<\/p>\n

Within the next few weeks, we will be launching the Smug Film podcast! Each episode will feature John D\u2019Amico, Jenna Ipcar, and myself bickering about movies and cracking each other up. And occasionally, we\u2019ll have on Greg DeLiso, Alex Hiatt, and the rest of our worldwide crew of Smug Film critics, via Skype. We\u2019ll also have special guests stopping by from time to time\u2014filmmakers and actors that we dig and know you\u2019ll dig too.<\/p>\n

The vibe of the show will be pretty laid back and fun, and if you like our site and like us, you\u2019ll definitely enjoy it. It\u2019ll basically be like hanging out with us for an hour. I don\u2019t want to give the impression that this will be a lazy effort though\u2014we\u2019ve been planning this podcast for quite some time now, making sure the production values will be dope and figuring out fun segments that will make it as enjoyable-yet-nutrient-dense as our site.<\/p>\n

This year, we also hope to branch into doing video essays and interviews for YouTube. But like podcasting, this isn\u2019t something we want to rush into. We want to make sure it looks good, the vibe is right, and the content is solid. Anything less, and it\u2019s just not worth it, so, this might take a while to get going. Maybe it\u2019ll be a 2015 thing, who knows. But it\u2019s next on our checklist, for sure.<\/p>\n

Most of all though, we want to interact more with you, our readers. We know you\u2019re out there\u2014we see the views, and we see the stats showing us we\u2019ve got certain regulars that read every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and others that prefer to binge through a big stack of our posts on the weekends. We know y\u2019all are out there, but we haven\u2019t exactly been feeling your presence as much as we\u2019d like to. It\u2019s like we\u2019re on stage and the houselights are off and we know that the theater is packed, but we\u2019re staring into blackness. It\u2019s a bit lonely.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s nothing against you all at all\u2014if anything, it\u2019s probably our fault. We\u2019re critics, and as such, people might think we\u2019re introverts who just wanna toss up content and then scurry back into our hidey-holes. But that\u2019s not the case. Whenever we write pieces for this site, it is our hope that they\u2019ll spark discussion. We love to hear what you think, positive or negative, because we love talking about movies\u2014if you love talking about movies too, we wanna talk to you, whether you agree with us or not (so long as you\u2019re respectful, of course). So if you ever have something to say, please, do not hesitate to comment on an article, hit us up on Twitter or Facebook, or drop an email our way. Because the stronger the bond is that we have with you all, the stronger the site is, and the stronger we are. Without you, we are a tree falling in the woods that\u00a0does not make a sound. So let\u2019s build that writer\/reader relationship.<\/p>\n

All the best to you and yours in 2014, and happy movie watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nTomorrow, January 7th, marks the first anniversary of Smug Film! Thank you, everyone, who has visited our site in the last 365 days or so. I know I can speak for everyone here when I say that we are honored whenever anyone reads something on our site. In this Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, BuzzFeed world, sites like Smug Film\u2014ones that produce actual, substantial content\u2014seem to be disappearing. And so, when you choose to read one of our posts, you are voting, with your eyes and your brain and your free time, for the existence of full meals on the internet. Don\u2019t get me wrong, bite-size sweets are fine in moderation, but man <\/i>have they become rampant in the last couple years. It seems as though we\u2019re stuck in this weird time period where the less attention a thing takes, the more popular it is, and the more time people spend with it. Basically, it\u2019s like everyone\u2019s playing Candy Crush non-stop, whether they\u2019re even playing the actual game or not, ya feel me? But I digress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[32,104,185],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-codysessays","tag-cody-clarke","tag-smug-film-2","tag-smugfilm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}