soraya roberts
@sorayaroberts.bsky.social
culture writer. contributing @defector.bsky.social. in my humble opinion: my so-called life (ecw, 2016). new book in the works (liveright/norton). sorayaroberts.com
wrote about diane keaton forever choosing to go solo despite all the romantic comedies.
Diane Keaton’s Solo Act | Defector
At the end of Baby Boom, the 1987 film starring Diane Keaton as a career woman who suddenly becomes a mother after “inheriting” a baby, she stands before a board room full of the very men who decided ...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
wrote about diane keaton forever choosing to go solo despite all the romantic comedies.
wrote about the dual meaning of that robe... defector.com/the-robe-run...
The Robe Runner | Defector
“She’s a runner, you a stone.” That’s a weird thing to say to Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Pat Calhoun, in One Battle After Another, given that the first time we see him in the film, he is in motion...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
wrote about the dual meaning of that robe... defector.com/the-robe-run...
wrote about THE SIMPSONS, a show people can't stop quoting to me even tho i have never seen an entire episode. (s/o to @alansiegella.bsky.social for sending me his book despite this).
To Artistic Freedom: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems | Defector
People have been quoting The Simpsons to me so often, and for so long, that even if I don’t recognize the quote, I am able to recognize that it’s from The Simpsons. When I do recognize the quote, it’s...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
wrote about THE SIMPSONS, a show people can't stop quoting to me even tho i have never seen an entire episode. (s/o to @alansiegella.bsky.social for sending me his book despite this).
YOU CANNOT COUNT THEM THERE ARE TOO MANY
This from @sorayaroberts.bsky.social is delightful, I too long loved the Redford double take. A couple more favorites in movies she mentions—elevator in All the President's Men ("Is there any place you don't smoke?"), and the joint double takes with Poitier and Phoenix on the balcony in Sneakers
Robert Redford Made An Art Of The Double Take | Defector
When I read that Robert Redford died on Tuesday, I did a double take. I didn’t realize he was 89, but even if he was, he had that air of immortality that attaches to all true movie stars. The double t...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
YOU CANNOT COUNT THEM THERE ARE TOO MANY
wrote about robert redford's trademark second look.
Robert Redford Made An Art Of The Double Take | Defector
When I read that Robert Redford died on Tuesday, I did a double take. I didn’t realize he was 89, but even if he was, he had that air of immortality that attaches to all true movie stars. The double t...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
wrote about robert redford's trademark second look.
could write several thousand words about marc maron on the cover of thr and what that says about journalism rn.
August 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
could write several thousand words about marc maron on the cover of thr and what that says about journalism rn.
nothing like spending months on a super sprawling reported culture piece to make you realize how few places run that shit anymore...if anyone has any names for places that do i would love to hear them.
July 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
nothing like spending months on a super sprawling reported culture piece to make you realize how few places run that shit anymore...if anyone has any names for places that do i would love to hear them.
if you are a culture critic, it's rare to have your work be actively obviously useful, but i wrote about writer hanif kureishi suddenly becoming a paraplegic and capturing his changing perspective in his new memoir, SHATTERED, and got a magical comment. defector.com/hanif-kureis...
July 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
if you are a culture critic, it's rare to have your work be actively obviously useful, but i wrote about writer hanif kureishi suddenly becoming a paraplegic and capturing his changing perspective in his new memoir, SHATTERED, and got a magical comment. defector.com/hanif-kureis...
it takes a minute...
Stick With 'Dept. Q' | Defector
There’s been this ongoing concern, I mean like in the air, for a while now, about people’s attention spans. I find it even creeping into my conversations. “Is this boring?” I’ll ask a few minutes into...
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June 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
it takes a minute...
this movie is not my friend.
'Friendship' Can't Sustain The Relationship | Defector
Would you be into watching a 100-minute I Think You Should Leave sketch? Because that’s basically what Friendship is—a Tim Robinson sketch stretched out way past its welcome. Robinson stars as Craig W...
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May 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
this movie is not my friend.
wrote about tunde adebimpe's first (!!!) solo album and the time-travelling quality of mixes (he designed it to be like a mixtape :x)
Tunde Adebimpe's Solo Debut Channels The Gift Of The Mixtape | Defector
Anything I say about “Magnetic,” the lead single off TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe’s first solo album, Thee Black Boltz, won’t live up to hearing it for the first time. Go listen to it. Bett...
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April 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
wrote about tunde adebimpe's first (!!!) solo album and the time-travelling quality of mixes (he designed it to be like a mixtape :x)
i got too excited about DROP. poor DROP.
'Drop' Is Not A '90s Thriller Because The '90s Are Unfortunately Over | Defector
I haven’t been as excited to see a movie as I was to see Drop in possibly years. I saw the trailer a couple of months ago at the beginning of some other movie I don’t remember, and this is how the tra...
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April 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
i got too excited about DROP. poor DROP.
wrote about mark corrigan's new show.
'Ludwig' Gets Cozy With David Mitchell's Limits | Defector
In the modest new British detective series Ludwig, comedian David Mitchell—who you will likely know as uptight office drone Mark Corrigan from Jesse Armstrong’s very pre-Succession cult hit Peep Show—...
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April 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
wrote about mark corrigan's new show.
the chokehold this woman had on canadian girls in the 90s. cultmtl.com/2025/03/film...
Filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee adapted her ex-boyfriend's sex-work memoir Paying for It
Sook-Yin Lee recreates the Toronto of her 20s in her adaptation of her ex-boyfriend Chester Brown's graphic novel Paying for It.
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March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
the chokehold this woman had on canadian girls in the 90s. cultmtl.com/2025/03/film...
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I used to see her sometimes in the park slope coop and even when she was figuring out which cheese to buy she was mesmerizing
March 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I used to see her sometimes in the park slope coop and even when she was figuring out which cheese to buy she was mesmerizing
i thot this was just a j-cloth. i wrote about it. defector.com/what-the-bea...
What The Beads Can Tell You | Defector
A week after Doug Ford (our provincial version of Trump, in every sense of the word) handily won the premiership of Ontario for a third time in a row, and within days of the announcement that some fuc...
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March 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
i thot this was just a j-cloth. i wrote about it. defector.com/what-the-bea...
wrote about BLACK BOX DIARIES, which really moved me (and is up for an academy award).
'Black Box Diaries' Splits A Journalist In Two | Defector
The “black box” in the title of Shiori Itō’s documentary Black Box Diaries, in which the journalist investigates her own sexual assault, essentially refers to the excuse Japan gives for not properly i...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
wrote about BLACK BOX DIARIES, which really moved me (and is up for an academy award).
in the midst of the snowstorm yesterday, friend alerted me to @misterpatches.bsky.social on the FitWR podcast giving a s/o to my NOSFERATU article @defector.bsky.social (defector.com/when-did-the...). big thank you to matt and here's the link:
499.25 – Trump x2 Coping Media, 2025 New Movie Quiz, Making New Friends as an Adult | Fighting In The War Room
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February 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
in the midst of the snowstorm yesterday, friend alerted me to @misterpatches.bsky.social on the FitWR podcast giving a s/o to my NOSFERATU article @defector.bsky.social (defector.com/when-did-the...). big thank you to matt and here's the link:
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My favorite blog on my favorite actress. (And, yeah, I'm biased. Wever starred in Unbelievable, based on a story I co-wrote. She's someone you just know will be nice—and then turns out to be even nicer than you expected.)
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There's Always Room For More Merritt Wever | Defector
I was sleepwatching through the first two episodes of Severance. It’s not an easy show to get into. It’s sterile because it’s supposed to be—it’s a show about a biotech company called Lumon whose empl...
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February 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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wrote about her.
There's Always Room For More Merritt Wever | Defector
I was sleepwatching through the first two episodes of Severance. It’s not an easy show to get into. It’s sterile because it’s supposed to be—it’s a show about a biotech company called Lumon whose empl...
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February 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
wrote about her.
wrote about sebastian stan, A DIFFERENT MAN, and the power of perspective. defector.com/a-different-...
January 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
wrote about sebastian stan, A DIFFERENT MAN, and the power of perspective. defector.com/a-different-...
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“If a fragmented populace is watching so much in fragmentation, doesn’t it make sense for story arc to become beside the point?” -Soraya Roberts defector.com/when-did-the...
When Did The Moving Image Stop Moving? | Defector
When I was a kid, like a lot of kids in the ‘80s, I had a View-Master. I had a few View-Masters, actually. You may have seen them before—they were these little red camera-looking things, with what loo...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“If a fragmented populace is watching so much in fragmentation, doesn’t it make sense for story arc to become beside the point?” -Soraya Roberts defector.com/when-did-the...
wrote about the primacy of image over story.
When Did The Moving Image Stop Moving? | Defector
When I was a kid, like a lot of kids in the ‘80s, I had a View-Master. I had a few View-Masters, actually. You may have seen them before—they were these little red camera-looking things, with what loo...
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January 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
wrote about the primacy of image over story.
i am never saying journalism is dead again because there seem to be an endless supply of staff jobs (in canada at least) for the assembly line of indistinguishable white men in this industry.
January 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
i am never saying journalism is dead again because there seem to be an endless supply of staff jobs (in canada at least) for the assembly line of indistinguishable white men in this industry.