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Desmond CrayFounding criticDesmond Cray writes the reviews at Third Act and co-founded the magazine after two newspaper jobs disappeared out from under him within a year of each other. He won't review a cut he hasn't watched straight through in a dark room, and he takes a film's blocking and sound design as seriously as its plot.Imogen PryceStreaming & industry writerImogen Pryce tracks what streaming actually costs once the bundles and price hikes are factored in. She spent several years doing subscription-pricing analysis before deciding readers deserved the same spreadsheet she was already keeping for herself, and she still rebuilds it every month by hand.Silas MarrowShop & essays writerSilas Marrow writes the physical media buying guides and the occasional essay on film craft and exhibition history that building his own collection got him thinking about. He keeps a spreadsheet of every disc he owns sorted by how many times he's actually rewatched it, not by what it cost him.