Welcome to the Film Yap archive

TheFilmYap.com's entire archive of reviews, commentary, news, interviews and more is now available on this Substack!

Good news: our entire 12-year archive of articles from TheFilmYap.com has now been uploaded to this Substack!

Just go to https://filmyap.substack.com/archive, or click the Archive button at the bottom of the homepage, and you can search or scroll through everything our critics have produced over the last dozen, illustrious years.

If you like a particular writer’s work, just click on their name and you can see a feed of everything they’ve ever done for the Yap.

And I do mean everything. You can even go back to the very first piece every published by the Film Yap on March 3, 2009: this interview with “Food Inc.” director Robert Kenner.

Big thanks to the Substack support team. When I first approached them about uploading the archive of our legacy WordPress site, I may have neglected to mention how big a job it would be.

Twelve years. Dozens of writers. Nearly 10,000 articles. Millions of words.

It was so huge that Substack’s automatic upload widget took one look at the 200-megabyte export file and promptly did the digital equivalent of vomiting up its binary-coded guts and passing out.

Luckily the Substack team was persistent — as was I in pestering them — and they dutifully did a painstaking manual transfer. Everything’s there, though some of the images make take time to port over. And I fear a few of the video or audio media files got lost along the way.

We’re proud of our rich history as one of the oldest and most storied outlets devoted to film commentary in the Midwest — or even the entire U.S. And now it will be there for our subscribers, in perpetuity.

Our long-term plan is to eventually make this our primary distribution platform, and hope our subscribers will be willing to pay a little something to reward our hard work. I don’t know yet when that day will come, but I’ve decided to keep everything in the Film Yap Vault — our unofficial name for everything pre-Substack — free to access, forever.

For now, help us build our subscriber base and consider sharing Film Yap with a friend!