September 2, 2024
EP. 258 — MoviePass w/ Roxane Gay
Best-selling author & cultural critic Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Hunger) joins the Con-gregation to help break down the fraud-filled downfall of MoviePass, the subscription service that offered users unlimited movies for the wildly unsustainable price of $10 a month. You might know how MoviePass eventually collapsed, but its problems actually first began when a rich white guy stole the company from its two black founders. Oh and in case you’re wondering, we also learn that, yes, you can in fact throw ass to the Succession theme song. Stay schemin’!
Read Roxane’s latest long-form piece, “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem”: https://www.everand.com/book/755164376/Roxane-Gay-Everand-Originals-Stand-Your-Ground-A-Black-Feminist-Reckoning-with-America-s-Gun-Problem
Pre-Order Laci’s book “Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts and Schemes”: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laci-mosley/scam-goddess/9780762484652/?lens=running-press
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Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
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SOURCES:
MoviePass, MovieCrash dir. by Muta’Ali Muhammad
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/moviepass-moviecrash-documentary
https://www.thestreet.com/entertainment/what-happened-to-moviepass-rise-fall-and-resurrection
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/moviepass-executive-guilty-embezzling-coachella-1235895696/
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