15 Questions With Ali El-Sadany, Editor of FilmSlop

"I know there’s so much discourse about this right now but this was genuinely one of the first times I’ve fully surrendered to a film."

Name: Ali El-Sadany
Location: San Francisco
Occupation: Co-founder & editor of FilmSlop
Links: FilmSlop.com, Instagram

1. What’s your favorite day & time to go to the movies?

a. Wednesday at 7. Objectively Wednesday is the worst day of the week. You are no longer riding the high of the previous weekend and you are still so far away from the upcoming weekend. I’ve made it a weekly ritual to go to the movies on Wednesday after work so that I can have something between weekends to look forward to. Ever since then my life has been glowing. Joyful. Beautiful. Nothing beats the feeling of waking up knowing you are going to watch a movie.

Also generally, the new movies come out on Thursday and sometimes you get to catch an early access screening on Wednesday so you get to watch a movie earlier than the general public (and feel superior). If there is no early screening, then you get to catch up on the old movies from the last week that you did not watch before the new movies come out. I think that…