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Podcast hosted by Eileen Jones and Dolores McElroy: "Pondering the work of art in the age of crap cinema."

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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
If you take an interest in the craft of acting, it's worth seeing Florence Pugh bring emotional power to the new Marvel movie THUNDERBOLTS. My review here: jacobin.com/2025/05/mcu-...
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Florence Pugh’s Thunderbolts* Shocks Marvel Back to Life
Thunderbolts* is Marvel’s first piece of lively entertainment in years. Maybe there’s another decade of life left in the Marvel Cinematic Universe beast after all.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My review of SNOW WHITE, which is lucky to have Rachel Zegler in it, because at least she salvages something out of this trainwreck: jacobin.com/2025/03/zegl...
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Don’t Blame Rachel Zegler for Snow White
The press is blaming the young and very online actor Rachel Zegler for Snow White’s dismal box office showing. But Zegler’s performance as the original Disney princess is the only bright spot in an ot...
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's getting fabulous reviews, though not from me. Soderbergh's second film released in a few months--PRESENCE came out in January. Where's the fire, Steven S.? jacobin.com/2025/03/blac...
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Black Bag: Not Much to See Here
Black Bag is being hailed by critics as highly sophisticated cinematic fare — rather than an unambitious rush job by a talented director eager to move on to his next, similarly unsatisfying project.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New Filmsuck essay! In praise of Jean Renoir's THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (1936), a raffish film celebrating a workers' cooperative that can only flourish if they can get rid of their venal, abusive boss permanently. Hmm, what to do, what to do... www.patreon.com/posts/jean-r...
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So pleased and proud that my brilliant Filmsuck co-host Dolores McElroy was chosen to interview her favorite director, Todd Haynes, after a screening of Haynes' FAR FROM HEAVEN at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley last night. So dreams still come true, at least at the PFA!
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New Filmsuck episode! Our take on the bland and careful Oscars 2025 ceremony, featuring no outspoken troublemakers among celebrities at this time of angst and political turmoil in America. Jane Fonda, where are you? www.patreon.com/posts/this-a...
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This Absurd Ritual, the Oscars | Filmsuck
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Movie Night Extravaganza 🎥📽️ @movienightextra.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Congratulations to best picture winner ANORA! Your old pals at MNE were early supporters of the film and we did an in-depth episode w/ Eileen Jones of Filmsuck right before it became a contender. Visit/revisit now! www.movienightextravaganza.com/episode-262-... #filmsky 📽️ @eileenj19.bsky.social
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
My last review before the Oscars, just under the wire jacobin.com/2025/03/im-s...
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I’m Still Here Is Worthy of Oscar Hype
Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here is the true story of a left-wing political family in Brazil caught up in the dark days of the military dictatorship. It’s a riveting story with incredible character and ...
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
He was so good, it's hard to pick which Gene Hackman performances to celebrate. But I came up with an indisputable few, I think. A tribute to the consummate actor! jacobin.com/2025/02/gene...
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RIP to Gene Hackman, the Everyman Actor
Legendary actor Gene Hackman, who was found dead this week at 95, brought a tough, working-class attitude to his mesmerizing performances.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New Filmsuck essay! It brings me to the outmost edge of escapism as I write at ridiculous length about the new BRIDGET JONES movie playing on Peacock, subtitled MAD ABOUT THE BOY and promising to be "the final chapter." www.patreon.com/posts/bridge...
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Tryhard escapism in THE GORGE, featuring two fetching snipers in love, and some gratuitous poetry. My review: jacobin.com/2025/02/the-...
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Young Snipers in Love Across The Gorge
Apple TV+’s The Gorge finds two attractive young snipers, Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy, flirting across the abyss as they guard the gates of hell below. It’s a promising premise, but it never pays...
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Movie Night Extravaganza 🎥📽️ @movienightextra.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Brand new episode! Our Oscar coverage begins with Sean Baker's ANORA! We are joined by Eileen Jones of @filmsuck1.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/vCcy-2F... @alwaysflacko.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @movieruntime.bsky.social @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @eileenj19.bsky.social #FilmSky 📽️
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It seems Steven Spielberg talked Ke Huy Quan into starring in this Valentine's Day-themed action-comedy fiasco. My review: jacobin.com/2025/02/love...
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Love Hurts, and So Does Going to This Movie
Love Hurts is the Valentine’s Day–themed action movie you never asked for.
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Movie Night Extravaganza 🎥📽️ @movienightextra.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
LIVE NOW! Our Oscar coverage continues. We are joined by Becky Rice to talk about Jesse Eisenberg's A REAL PAIN @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @movieruntime.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social #FilmSky 📽️ www.youtube.com/live/8QLl5Fd...
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New Filmsuck episode we're calling "Valentine's Day Massacre: 3 Films." What do Rainer Werner Fassbinder's THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT and Preston Sturges' THE LADY EVE and THE PALM BEACH STORY have in common? You'll have to listen to find out! www.patreon.com/posts/valent...
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
What a trainwreck every level: jacobin.com/2025/02/emil...
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Emilia Pérez Is the Ultimate Unloved Oscar Nominee
Despite Emilia Pérez’s mixed reviews and poor audience reactions, Hollywood handed the musical 13 Oscar nominations in the hopes of proving its progressive bona fides. Then old tweets from its star su...
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The title really should read "Beautiful-LOOKING," because THE BRUTALIST is shot in the gorgeous, bygone VistaVision format, but what a turgid, tortuous hash of a film this is. My attempt to figure out what the hell's going on with it here: jacobin.com/2025/02/the-...
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The Brutalist Is a Confounding but Beautiful Mess
The Brutalist is a big and bold story of the immigrant experience and the postwar American dream. It’s confounding yet always interesting — a heartening thing in these cinematically tough times.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It's a Very Special Filmsuck episode open to the public called "Dissecting David Lynch"! I interview writer and cinephile Alex Deley, who wrote a fantastic piece for JACOBIN magazine about the glories of Lynch films: www.patreon.com/posts/dissec...
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It was great to discuss ANORA with the always-lively crew at Movie Night Extravaganza!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Our coalition has grown to 30,000 federal employees. Details regarding new guidance will be distributed. For those not in our coalition, here is a public message: hide any online content that is public, document everything you witness or experience, and keep daily notes at home with dates and times.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Can't exactly recommend it--it's agony to watch. But nobody can deny Mike Leigh knows how to do these tormented-working-class-people portraits. My review of HARD TRUTHS, at a time of way too many hard truths: jacobin.com/2025/01/mike...
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Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths Is Powerful and Tormenting
Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths is another triumph by that legendary dramatist of working-class British life. But films like Leigh’s are a rare breed these days.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Movie Night Extravaganza 🎥📽️ @movienightextra.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Tonight! SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS a taut, sharply written 1957 noir/thriller about an unscrupulous PR man & a powerful broadway columnist. with Harry Marks ! @alwaysflacko.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @movieruntime.bsky.social @cosmepolitics.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/27uBbDS... #FilmSky 📽️
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New Filmsuck episode open to the public! On FLOW, the highly praised Latvian animated feature that's up for Best Animated Film and Best International Film Oscars. Everybody else loves it. I stand alone in hating it in defiance of the whole world hahaha www.patreon.com/posts/cohost...
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Cohosts Experience Uneven FLOW | Filmsuck
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Steven Soderbergh's ghost movie. Not for everyone, and the ending is botched, but I like ghost movies, formalist experiments, Lucy Liu's ferocity, and--sometimes--Soderbergh films. My review of PRESENCE, now playing in theaters: jacobin.com/2025/01/pres...
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Presence Is an Engrossing Experiment in Supernatural Cinema
Steven Soderbergh’s low-budget haunted house flick Presence puts the viewer in the point of view of the ghost. It’s a thrilling experiment — more like this, please.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My humble tribute to David Lynch, written in a certain amount of pain. Other than the Coen brothers dying together in a fiery crash on their way to make their next film together, God forbid, I can't think of a filmmaker's death that would hurt me more. jacobin.com/2025/01/davi...
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RIP to David Lynch, Mysterious, Bizarre, and All-American
Director David Lynch, who died this week at 78, brought an avant-garde sensibility into the American mainstream when we needed it most. There will never be another like him.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Set and shot in Iceland, the period horror film THE DAMNED features the kind of quiet atmospheric chills that really get to me. Here's my review: jacobin.com/2025/01/the-...
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The Damned Settlers Have Got to Pay
With a modest budget but plenty of thrills involving spooky 19th-century ships, frozen wastelands, and ghouls from Nordic folktales, The Damned proudly carries on our Gothic horror revival.
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Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Latest Filmsuck essay! On finding another 2024 film I really enjoyed--which is like finding a diamond in the mud--the underseen indie comedy-drama A REAL PAIN. www.patreon.com/posts/filmsu...
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