Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New Filmsuck essay! I continue my intermittent series on "Great Obscure Films" with THE PUMPKIN EATER, a mesmerizing 1964 portrait of a woman (played by Anne Bancroft) trapped in her fraught domestic relationships with parents, husbands, and children. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos... 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New Facebook episode! All about PRIMETIME, the new movie about Chris Hansen, former host of the NBC DATELIINE show TO CATCH A PREDATOR, starring Robert Pattinson in a wildly stylized performance that wouldn't be out of place in a Gothic horror film. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comPRIMETIME and America's Media Vigilantism | FilmsuckCo-hosts Eileen and Dolores are torn about the stylized new film PRIMETIME, which seems to show us once again what we already know about the 011
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Latest Filmsuck essay! THE UPRISING already bombed, but I go right on kicking it while it's down. That's how stupid and infuriating a medieval peasant revolt film it is. Writer-director Paul Greengrass' head on a pike, please. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comTHE UPRISING: What We Got vs. What We Need | FilmsuckHow do you make a boring film about a peasant revolt? Writer-director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, Captain Phillips, United 93) ha 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My review of Zach Creggar's RESIDENT EVIL, a delightfully inventive horror-comedy and cinephile jamboree clocking in at a kinetic 95 minutes. jacobin.com/2026/09/resi...jacobin.comZach Cregger Made a Resident Evil Movie With BiteZach Cregger has never seen a Resident Evil movie, and that’s definitely for the better. His reboot is a fast, funny, scary blast of pure genre filmmaking and a darkly comic portrait of a society past... 041
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You ain't the whole world, buddy. Enough people are devoted fans to make this film a cult favorite--that what it means to be a cult favorite. It's not necessarily an evaluation of quality, just intense fan devotion. Get over yourself. 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My piece for JACOBIN on the Criterion Channel's a sick, twisted, and fascinating "Southern Gothic" series. Try these sensationalistic critiques of a monstrous culture: Elia Kazan's BABY DOLL (1956), Don Siegel's THE BEGUILED (1971), and John Huston's WISE BLOOD (1979). jacobin.com/2026/09/film...jacobin.comSouthern Gothic Films Take On the Horrors of the PastThe Criterion Channel’s Southern Gothic collection gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its slaveholding past look civilized. Instead, it produced a body of work steeped in r... 1164
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New Filmsuck episode! We praise the dark witchy fun of the Griffin Dunne-directed PRACTICAL MAGIC, which bombed in 1998 and was reviled by clueless critics. Can PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 live up to the old cult favorite? No. But it's #1 at the box-office. Things change. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comPRACTICAL MAGIC 1 & 2: Witchy Cult Phenomenon Revived | FilmsuckA mere 28 years after the dark and delightful witch tale PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998), starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, was dismissed by 100
Reposted by Eileen JonesMovie Night Extravaganza 🎥📽️ @movienightextra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026THURSDAY (9/10) 8e/7c/6m/5p We are BACK with SEASON 10 We are discussing Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot with Jacobin/Filmsuck film critic Eileen Jones! Filmsky 📽️ @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @eileenj19.bsky.social youtube.com/movienightextravaganza 011
Reposted by Eileen JonesForrest Miller @alwaysflacko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026TONIGHT, MOVIE NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA IS BACK. 8e/7c/6m/5p!! We are starting SEASON 10!!! TALKING ABOUT BILLY WILDER'S 1959 "SOME LIKE IT HOT" with FilmSuck and Jacobin Film Critic Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social youtube.com/live/Vmsgffs... 011
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Latest Filmsuck! In honor of Labor Day we tackled the Mike Nichols film SILKWOOD (1983) about nuclear power plant worker, union rep, and whistleblower Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep). Disturbing fiļm reminding us that as a rule, those in power don't care if we all die. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comSILKWOOD on Labor Day: All Work and No Pay | FilmsuckIn honor of Labor Day, co-hosts Eileen and Dolores tackle the disturbing Mike Nichols film SILKWOOD (1983) about real-life nuclear power pla 021
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Our big award! www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comOur Big Award | FilmsuckHey all, just sharing the hilarious news that Filmsuck is listed as one of the TOP 70 "Actress Podcasts" by Millionpodcasts. We're #48. And 030
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New Filmsuck essay! A tribute to Dolly Parton and 9 TO 5, and no, it's not kinda late to post this, because nobody's done celebrating Dolly. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comDolly Parton and 9 TO 5 | FilmsuckThere are still many posts about Dolly Parton showing up on social media, though she died a week ago. That’s a long period of public mournin 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 30/08/2026My review of TONY, a free adaptation of a small slice of Anthony Bourdain's KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL. Good film, great performances by Dominic Sessa, Leo Woodall, Antonio Banderas jacobin.com/2026/08/film...jacobin.comTony Is a Terrific Coming-of-Age StoryMatt Johnson’s Tony takes a few pages from Anthony Bourdain’s best-selling memoir and turns them into a warm, character-driven film about a spoiled kid learning how to work. It’s fantastic. 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Latest Filmsuck episode! Mostly in praise of Jane Schoenbrun's brilliantly cast third feature, TEENAGE SEX & DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, starring hilarious Hannah Einbinder and the always-sublime Gillian Anderson. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comGrading TEENAGE SEX & DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA | FilmsuckCo-hosts Eileen and Dolores have high praise for TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, the new horror-comedy by up-and-coming writer-directo 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 18/08/2026New Filmsuck episode! In praise of NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955), the only film directed by actor Charles Laughton. It's a nightmarish American Gothic vision so unique it failed dismally with critics and the public upon release. Considered a masterpiece now. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comTHE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and the Southern Gothic | FilmsuckThe only film that actor Charles Laughton directed is the now-celebrated NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955), a unique, nightmarish, dark fairy tale 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 13/08/2026New Filmsuck essay! Here's an immediate follow-up to my essay on Criterion Channel's "Murderous Melodramas" series. All about the second film in Vincente Minnelli's post-WWII "manosphere" trilogy, SOME CAME RUNNING. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comSome Came Running | Filmsuck[An unforeseen wildfire smoke emergency in Santa Fe, necessitating some Santa Fe Opera crisis management from co-host Dolores, has prevented 010
Reposted by Eileen JonesJames Callan @scarequotes.com · 08/08/2026Yes! This is what I’ve been saying. “There’s a Criterion Channel series paying tribute to director Jonathan Demme that, as short as it is, makes clear that Demme is due for a major reappraisal.” — @eileenj19.bsky.socialjacobin.comJonathan Demme’s Wild, Humanist Cinema Deserves a ReappraisalThe Criterion Channel’s new Jonathan Demme retrospective is a chance to look beyond The Silence of the Lambs and rediscover one of America’s most adventurous, surprising, and charming filmmakers. 011
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 04/08/2026New Filmsuck essay in praise of the splendidly lurid Criterion Channel series "Murderous Melodramas"! Many of these eye-popping films take on the violent "manosphere" dominating US culture from 1945 – 1960. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comMurderous Melodramas | FilmsuckThe Criterion Channel series “Murderous Melodramas” naturally drew me like a magnet. I like melodramas in general but make them explicitly m 000
Reposted by Eileen JonesKate Cohen @katecohen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I love @eileenj19.bsky.social with the same passion that she hates a Christopher Nolan movie. jacobin.com/2026/07/film...jacobin.comChristopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: A Dissenter’s ViewI know I’m in the minority here. I really did try to like it. But Christopher Nolan has taken the wiliest, most delightful hero in Western literature and turned him into one more Nolan sad sack, trudg... 162
Reposted by Eileen JonesMichael Pollak @mdpollak.bsky.social · 21/07/20261st half of this @eileenj19.bsky.social piece is a delightful mapping of O Brother Where Art You onto the Odyssey. There was more there than I remembered. I missed the vital connection between the kind of lame prophecy & the brilliant soundtrackjacobin.comGreat Cinematic Odysseys to Prepare You for The OdysseyFrom Preston Sturges and the Coen brothers to Martin Scorsese and John Ford, the Criterion Channel’s “Odysseys” series traces the enduring appeal of Homer’s epic in American cinema. 022
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Before we recorded this Filmsuck episode on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY, it had come to our attention that a lot of people seem to think this film is a [choking violently over the word] masterpiece. Our humble attempt to reason with viewers... www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comTHE ODYSSEY: Botching the Birth of Narrative | FilmsuckIn this extra subscribers-only episode, co-hosts Eileen and Dolores mourn the drab and unimaginative Christopher Nolan version of THE ODYSSE 050
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 14/07/2026New Filmsuck episode! Conan Neutron of Movie Night Extravaganza joins me in a tribute to the films of Howard Hawks. One of the best to ever do it: SCARFACE, BRINGING UP BABY, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, THE BIG SLEEP, RED RIVER, THE THING, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES... www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos... 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 14/07/2026My review of YOUNG WASHINGTON folded into an examination of the swift rise of Angel Studios, a Christian conservative production company that crowdfunds its films. It's from the people who brought you SOUND OF FREEDOM. jacobin.com/2026/07/ange...jacobin.comYoung Washington: a Simpleminded Take on Our First PresidentThe Christian conservative Angel Studios’ Young Washington feels more like a MAGA political project than a movie. Sadly, it’s the exact kind of paint-by-numbers George Washington biopic you would’ve e... 150
Reposted by Eileen JonesForrest Miller @alwaysflacko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I was on Filmsuck with Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social to talk about the life and career of Robert Mitchum Especially his starring role in the 1947 Film Noir "Out of the Past" where he starred opposite a sinister Kirk Douglas www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comRobert Mitchum Comes OUT OF THE PAST | FilmsuckSpecial guest Forrest "Flacko" Miller of the crowd-pleasing podcast Movie Night Extravaganza joins host Eileen Jones in celebrating the rene 021
Reposted by Eileen JonesForrest Miller @alwaysflacko.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Video version of my conversation with Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social on Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social about the life and career of Robert Mitchum is up on Patreon!!! www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comRobert Mitchum Comes OUT OF THE PAST (video version) | FilmsuckSpecial guest Forrest "Flacko" Miller of the crowd-pleasing podcast Movie Night Extravaganza joins host Eileen Jones in celebrating the rene 021
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 07/07/2026New Filmsuck essay! In praise of the splendid new comedy-horror series WIDOW'S BAY that you may not be watching yet and should be. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos... 071
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 30/06/2026New Filmsuck episode open to the public! Special guest Forrest Miller of the popular podcast and live show Movie Night Extravaganza joins me in celebrating the films, life, and legend of renegade Hollywood star Robert Mitchum. There's nobody noir-ier! www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...patreon.comRobert Mitchum Comes OUT OF THE PAST | FilmsuckSpecial guest Forrest "Flacko" Miller of the crowd-pleasing podcast Movie Night Extravaganza joins host Eileen Jones in celebrating the rene 031
Reposted by Eileen JonesMovie Night Extravaganza 🎥📽️ @movienightextra.bsky.social · 24/06/2026We are LIVE with Eileen Jones!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @eileenj19.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social youtube.com/live/3rYDyhh...youtube.comEpisode 336: Cape Fear (1991) with Eileen JonesYouTube video by Movie Night Extravaganza 011
Reposted by Eileen JonesForrest Miller @alwaysflacko.bsky.social · 24/06/2026We are LIVE with Eileen Jones!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @eileenj19.bsky.social youtube.com/live/3rYDyhh...youtube.comEpisode 336: Cape Fear (1991) with Eileen JonesYouTube video by Movie Night Extravaganza 011
Reposted by Eileen JonesMichael Pollak @mdpollak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026366 people have joined DSA since the polls closed last night. There's a ticker: results.socialists.nyc/ticker/ h/t @petersterne.comresults.socialists.nycNYC-DSA Live TickerLive NYC-DSA joins and donations since polls closed. 121
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Of course you're just dying to know all about TOY STORY 5, so here's my review jacobin.com/2026/06/disn...jacobin.comToy Story 5 Takes On the Existential Dread of Big TechA kids’ movie about tech addiction and the terror of being obsolete? Of course Toy Story 5 is a hit — we’re all living through it. 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 23/06/2026New Filmsuck essay! Celebrating a new Hong Kong martial arts movie, THE FURIOUS, playing at a theater near you and coming soon to Hulu. Action-packed! Astounding fight scenes! Working-class rage expressing itself with hammers! www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos... 000
Reposted by Eileen JonesMovie Night Extravaganza 🎥📽️ @movienightextra.bsky.social · 23/06/2026On the next episode (6/23) 8e/7c/6m/5p We are talking to Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social about Scorsese's 1991 Cape Fear!!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social #CapeFear #Scorsese #FilmTwitter youtube.com/live/3rYDyhh...youtube.comEpisode 336: Cape Fear (1991) with Eileen JonesYouTube video by Movie Night Extravaganza 122
Reposted by Eileen JonesForrest Miller @alwaysflacko.bsky.social · 23/06/2026On the next episode @movienightextra.bsky.social (6/23) 8e/7c/6m/5p We are talking to Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social about Scorsese's 1991 Cape Fear!!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social #CapeFear #Scorsese #FilmTwitter youtube.com/live/3rYDyhh...youtube.comEpisode 336: Cape Fear (1991) with Eileen JonesYouTube video by Movie Night Extravaganza 033
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 16/06/2026BACKROOMS I found very scary. OBSESSION not so much for me--a few scenes kinda hair-raising, but that's all. But I was at a graduation party and several young men told me they didn't sleep at all the night after they saw OBSESSION, they were so terrified 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 16/06/2026New Filmsuck episode on DISCLOSURE DAY, free to the public! We love the action, we pity several of the actors, we hate the ending, we tell why. www.patreon.com/.../posts/di... 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 15/06/2026My review of DISCLOSURE DAY. Is it sappy and corny and implausible with an ending that falls so flat people in the audience audibly exclaim, "What the hell"? Sure. Nevertheless... jacobin.com/2026/06/spie...jacobin.comDisclosure Day Is the Big Fat Spielberg Summer Movie We NeedSteven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day is corny and cluttered. But in these dark days, a classic Spielberg summer movie about aliens is just what the doctor ordered. 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 12/06/2026We've all had to hold forth--film critics, I mean--about what the low-budget horror hits BACKROOMS and OBSESSION mean for Hollywood. So I hold forth jacobin.com/2026/06/film...jacobin.comBackrooms and Obsession Are Glimpses of a Better HollywoodTwo indie horror movies with YouTube origins, Obsession and Backrooms, crushed big-budget Star Wars and He-Man movies at the box office. But claims that these films represent a revival of cinematic cr... 161
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 09/06/2026New Filmsuck essay! Criterion Channel is running a "Weddings" series in honor of the season. But they left out one obvious film, FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950), a Vincente Minnelli comedy satirizing post-WWII wedding-mania that was a smash-hit of its day. www.patreon.com/posts/weddin... 040
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 02/06/2026New Filmsuck episode! Emotions run high for the discussion of the HACKS finale--Dolores may never recover! Thoughts and prayers during this difficult time, everyone! www.patreon.com/posts/hacks-...patreon.comHACKS Finale: The Perfect Duet | FilmsuckHACKS Finale: The Perfect Duet by Filmsuck on Patreon. Join Filmsuck's community for exclusive content and updates. 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Good news, everybody! My review of Boots Riley's I LOVE BOOSTERS jacobin.com/2026/05/boot...jacobin.comWe Rarely See Films as Fresh as I Love BoostersBoots Riley’s remarkably easy confidence and visual flair in I Love Boosters is a tonic in an era of boring CGI slop. He’s one of the most compelling filmmakers working today. 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 26/05/2026New Filmsuck essay! On THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, a beguiling little film oddity at a theater near you. Cinephiles have been muttering to each other, "Have you heard that it might actually be good?" It is. www.patreon.com/posts/sheep-... 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Latest Filmsuck! We came up with the nicey-nice title "Spring TV Potpourri" before we actually reckoned with EUPHORIA, THE COMEBACK, BEEF, MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES, SCRUBS. Even if in rare cases it's well done, it's ghastly somehow. Gah, this culture! www.patreon.com/posts/spring...patreon.comSpring TV Potpourri | FilmsuckSpring TV Potpourri by Filmsuck on Patreon. Join Filmsuck's community for exclusive content and updates. 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Most critics loved this 4-part Netflix LORD OF THE FLIES series, but man--or should I say, boy--I really did not. jacobin.com/2026/05/lord...jacobin.comBoys, Beasts, and a Bloated Lord of the FliesJack Thorne’s Netflix adaptation of Lord of the Flies drowns William Golding’s brutal clarity in arty excess, muddled psychology, and a strangely sentimental plea for sympathy for boys. 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Most critics loved this 4-part Netflix LORD OF THE FLIES series, but man--or should I say, boy--I really did not. jacobin.com/2026/05/lord...jacobin.comBoys, Beasts, and a Bloated Lord of the FliesJack Thorne’s Netflix adaptation of Lord of the Flies drowns William Golding’s brutal clarity in arty excess, muddled psychology, and a strangely sentimental plea for sympathy for boys. 010
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 12/05/2026New Filmsuck essay! On women in the workplace in movies of the 1930s through the '50s and the hornet's nest of misogyny that gets stirred up in most of them--with a few memorable exceptions. All are featured in the new Criterion Channel series "Office Romances." www.patreon.com/posts/women-... 010
Reposted by Eileen JonesForrest Miller @alwaysflacko.bsky.social · 03/05/2026On the next episode (5/4) 8e/7c/6m/5p We are going to be talking about Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social !! #Hitchcock #Vertigo @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social Filmsky 📽️ youtube.com/live/_-xGZjC... 032
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 06/05/2026New Filmsuck episode! On THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2, which is so intent on the cratering of paying professions/the general collapse of our society, it ends with the two lead characters metaphorically "clinging to the last piece of wood next to the Titanic." www.patreon.com/posts/devil-...patreon.comTHE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2: Too Real? | FilmsuckTHE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2: Too Real? by Filmsuck on Patreon. Join Filmsuck's community for exclusive content and updates. 000
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 02/05/2026On the "Corporate Thriller" genre showcased on the Criterion Channel. The films contain a lot of lurid emoting about our capitalist dystopia but, with a few exceptions, still managed to underestimate the depth of the abyss we were staring into. jacobin.com/2026/05/crit...jacobin.comThe Corporate Thriller Lied to UsCriterion Channel is hosting a retrospective on Hollywood’s “corporate thrillers” from the 1980s through the early 2000s. If anything, their message about the capitalist rot in America’s institutions ... 020
Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 28/04/2026New Filmsuck essay! Of the classic Hollywood actors who used to represent admirable working-class toughness and decency, Jean Arthur might have been the most likable. www.patreon.com/posts/jean-a... 020