Matt Baume makes entertaining, intelligent and thought-provoking videos about queer representation in mass media. Here is his excellent recent book. Similarly, Jarred Corona pours out his heart in every queer-themed video he produces, doing so with insight and integrity.
If you grew up in the 1980s, you will love Richter‘s When Gen X Ruled the Multiplex series. It is like chatting with an old friend about movies.
Robin Bailes of Dark Corner Reviews mixes in-depth analyses of classic horror films with short streaming reviews and hysterical looks at truly awful horror films. Yes, he went here.
Polyphonic and Trash Theory make the best videos about the history of pop music I have ever seen.
The struggles of Matt Murray of Corn Pone Flicks with the absurd and arcane copyright rules of YouTube are legendary. His David Lynch analysis videos rank among the best. Ditto for Music Mongoose and his deep dives into popular music.
Nick Hodges carefully separates fact from fiction in historical movies on his HistoryBuffs channel, while the folks at Kurzgezagt tell beautiful animated stories about, well, everything. The 1920s Channel shares my passion for this transformative decade.
FuzzCulture makes insightful videos about the modern world’s active suppresion of creativity.
While the husband and wife team in The House of Tabula (formerly The Cinema Cartography) can be a bit pretentious, few are as passionate and knowledgeable about film as an art form. Shoutouts also to Be Kind Rewind, Cinema Cities, Cinematic Century Chronicle, Endless Perceptions Cinema, Thomas Flight, Adriana Oister, PolterGibbst and Patrick H Willems.
Do I agree with everything these creators say? Of course not. But they do the hard work to back up their insights and opinions, they are wholly original (no AI slop here), and I applaud and respect that.
