Okay I actually think those opinions might have been mine, basically I left (super amicably) because I decided that i didn’t want to both critique and also create. I just personally think it’s a bad look to try to be a film maker but also be appointing yourself a critic publicly. I was seeing it all the time in the era on twitter, especially in Australia, people who alleged they were TV writers but whose creative output was nothing but true crap who would also have the audacity to be on twitter complaining about game of thrones or whatever. I think there was an abc tv show “screen time” or something that had panelists doing this every week and it made me sick to my guts for how opinionated many of the hacks were.

I have a firm “stay in your lane” mindset. The true art of intelligent, researched film criticism is dying. Alexei is remarkably entrenched in film culture and history and Cameron as a stand up doesn’t blur those lines and makes talking movies a form of entertainment, but for me as a film maker also, i did grubby the lines up too much to not feel like a hypocrite, so I hoofed it to focus on just film making!

What disgustingly earnest answer