Today’s guest is Marshall Shaffer.

Marshall is a freelance film journalist whose writings, interviews, and reviews appear in Slant Magazine, Decider, the Playlist, and other outlets.

He also has a newsletter that he’s been writing over 16 years called Marshall and the Movies. I highly recommend you subscribe to it and check out his monthly streaming recommendations (‘The Upstream’ and ‘The Downstream’).

In addition to that, he’s been working in marketing for over 10 years, including working at the ad agency Ogilvy in New York.

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We met in New York through my wife, Caroline, because they both went to Wake Forest together. He’s a delightful, affable human, so I was excited to interview him for this newsletter.

In this episode, we talk about journalism, covering films, marketing, and how his two careers intersect (a subject he has covered in his newsletter, too!).

Enjoy.

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