As you’ve seen I’ve started writing my Five Cool Things articles again. The basic idea is to write a couple of paragraphs about the interesting things I discover every couple of weeks. These aren’t full reviews, but just some concise thoughts on why I liked whatever it is I’m talking about.

This week The Substance was one of the five things. I submitted it to Cinema Sentries and the owner of the site sent me a little note. Turns out he’s trying to get reviews of all the Oscar-nominated films on his site, and wondered if I’d let him make my three-paragraphs on The Substance into a regular review.

Me being me I said that was okay but I’d rather flesh it out a little more and make it a full-on review rather than my less formal tidbit for Five Cool Things.

And now you can read it.