It can sometimes feel like films narrate our lives. “Everyone has a movie that has mattered to them in their life,” says writer and editor Ryan W. Bradley, who selfishly “wanted to read other people’s stories about the movies they love.” In 2022, Bradley, who lives in southern Oregon, came up with an idea he was eager to launch: What if someone created a series like the acclaimed 33 ⅓—slim volumes about popular music, focusing on individual albums by a wide range of artists, published by Bloomsbury—for films? Bradley knew he could do it—he had previously run an indie press for five years—but he wanted some help. So he took to Facebook to gauge interest, and the idea quickly gained traction. Soon he was chatting with Robert Lasner, the editor in chief of Ig Publishing, about how to make the series a reality. {read}