Gwen Roger's Blog

         This past year, I have become OBSESSED with business scandals. Am I interested in business - absolutely not. I graduated from art school. I am interested in human psychology and good stories, and a juicy business scandal has all that and more.  It started here and there with a few podcasts and sitting in on shows my mom was watching. But it really blossomed when The Journal started posting their daily podcast about the SBF trials. I was (and still am) at a job where I'm expected to wake up early and drive up to 100 miles to whatever location we're at for the day. Naturally, audiobooks and podcasts have become my friends. My mom had been going on about SBF and the cryptocurrency trials for a while. I ignored it. My experience with cyrpto had been bad. I didn't understand it, and whenever someone tried to explain it to me online, it usually somehow involved unsolicited dick pics and a quick report and block from me.  Out of boredom, I decided to...

The old adage "A Hundred Channels and Nothing to watch." is still very much true in the age of streaming. How many of us have sat on our couches, in a trance, scrolling through the brightly colored tiles of movies and not actually selecting anything. I can spend an entire hour doing this, until I look at the clock and realize I blew my time to watch a movie. Luckily for you, I'm a total film nerd, and I've watched plenty of unusual movies. Four years of film school certainly exposed me to a lot - most of it depressing. Here I've curated a ragtag list of movies that I feel didn't quite get their fair chance in the world. Some are truly indie, others are mainstream studio films that just got passed over. I hope you watch one of them and enjoy. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared Imagine if Forrest Gump was Swedish. That is The 100 Year-Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared . Really the title says it all. The film follows ...