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Welcome to Random Movie Birb

Here are a few things you should know about this blog:

 1.) I created this blog in order to reach many people and have conversations about films. While I won't be reviewing films and giving grades, I will give a few thoughts on the movies and communicate with everyone in the comments.

2.) Many people have many opinions about movies. Please be open and honest about what you think, but please be respectful of other people's opinions.

3.) I am going to be all over the place with the movies featured in this blog (hence the name, Random Movie Birb). It will be broken up into Random Birbs from my Letterboxd watchlist (which you can find at letterboxd.com/moviebirb/watchlist), Classic Birbs, as well as new releases.

Now a little about me:

Currently, I am a film and media studies major at Arizona State University online, where I hope to use that degree to get into film studies, reviewing, and writing. In 2017, I had the privilege to volunteer at TIFF, which is the first of hopefully many times I plan to volunteer and attend many different film festivals around the country. My hope is that in the next five years that aside from getting back to TIFF, I can also get to Sundance, Telluride, and New York.

If you're interested in checking me out on other social media platforms, you can check me out here:
Letterboxd.com/moviebirb 
Twitter: @moviebirb

I also started a Patreon, where my hope is that I can take this little blog to a full-fledged website, complete with audio podcasts and videos. You can find me at patreon.com/moviebirb.

Thank you for checking out my blog. I hope you enjoy the content, and I look forward to it evolving. 

-birb

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