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Joseph Aisenberg

@josephaisenberg13.bsky.social
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Novelist, critic, movie guy, freak, normie, pedestrian, lover of skies, stairwells, dogs, good deals, hot food, pictures hung at odd angles, old fashioned dial phones as decor, air conditioning, movie poster art

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Laurie Anderson, US avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a standing white woman with short hair wearing black in front of an image of a giant clock face
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2h
By the way pals Writers on Film breezed past its 300th episode without much fanfare a few weeks ago. I really have no time to promote the show at all! But I am hugely grateful to those who listen and the guests who come on podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
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Writers on Film
TV & Film Podcast · Updated weekly · Writers on Film is the only podcast to focus on film books and to talk to the best authors working in the area of cinema. From Making Of tomes to biographies, stud...
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 30/09/2026
I wrote about Danny Boyle’s hymn to The Sun “Ink” and Lance Oppenheim’s celebration of trash tv “Primetime” for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social (No paywall) www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
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What Danny Boyle gets badly wrong about The Sun
Ink is an advert for the old media that skirts over the damaging journalism Rupert Murodch’s tabloid unleashed
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chapter Five of Henry Vs. The World is live for FREE! After her appointment at Defenestraythia Sandy has to deliver a hatbox. She and Henry take the subway and strangeness and horror ensues. Is society falling apart? The world? Baby deconstruction is now! substack.com/@josephaisen...
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Henry Vs. The World Chapter 5
The Package
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tomorrow Chapter 5 comes out! So catch up to the latest fashion in narrative freak out! Henry and Sandy confront the weird owner of Defenestraythia and sinister hilarity ensues… substack.com/@josephaisen...
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Henry Vs. The World Chapter 4
Sandy’s Appointment
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In Chapter 4 of Henry Vs. The World Henry accompanies Sandy on her appointment at Defenestraythia Corporation where the deformed owner in his crazy grotesque offices does a strange kind of business…read it now for FREE! josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/henry-vs-t...
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Henry Vs. The World Chapter 4
Sandy’s Appointment
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love this pic so much! Sherman took a kid’s love of dressing up and created a witty way to mock the pop consumer mentality while indulging in its glamour
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here’s a piece on that old hit Moneyball. Talks a lot about Pitt and the movie’s curious Shizophrenia. And it’s FREE!!! josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/spoiler-al...
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Spoiler Alert! Moneyball
Schizophrenic Ball
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In Chapter 4 of Henry Vs. The World Henry accompanies Sandy on her appointment at Defenestraythia Corporation where the deformed owner in his crazy grotesque offices does a strange kind of business…read it now for FREE! josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/henry-vs-t...
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Henry Vs. The World Chapter 4
Sandy’s Appointment
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Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cinematic reenactments of true stories from the Holocaust (Schindler's List, The Pianist) have won scores of awards. Freeline Media critic @milanpaurich.bsky.social thinks one of the most powerful films about the Final Solution is actually a documentary. freelinemediaorlando.com/movie-talk-t...
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Movie Talk: The Continued Power of Lanzmann's Shoah | Freeline
Movie Talk: The Continued Power of Lanzmann's Shoah. Freeline Media critic Milan Paurich reviews the towering Holocaust documentary.
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
She’s like a work of art embodied
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Read it
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Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Read about the Marx Brothers No, Not Karl - he's irrelevant
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Discover the new! fictional sensation where the weird and the mind bendy combine with Henry Vs The World. Read chapter 3 where Henry and the sexy occupant of The Shack align to find The Entity Known As Glenda’s toxic waste baby. Chapter 4 out tomorrow!! josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/henry-vs-t...
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Henry Vs. The World Chapter 3
Getting Sandy to her appointment
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Part 2 of the substack version of my memory essay now available. The second day of my trip to Tulsa in my early 20s has lurid hilarity that seems to reveal many destructive patterns run through my life josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/filth-and-...
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Filth and Alienation Part 2
An Essay At Memory
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m obsessed with that great dress and its bohemian flared sleeves. Ms Tarlov has only to make a double handed gesture before herself as if welcoming all unto the many wonders which wait within her book…
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Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#filmsky Ever feel like the Academy Awards get it wrong a lot? Freeline Media critic @milanpaurich.bsky.social looks back at 2 popular films from 1973 that got a different response from the Oscars: Which one actually deserved the best Picture award? Read on! freelinemediaorlando.com/movie-talk-t...
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Movie Talk: The Con America Believed In
Movie Talk: The Con America Believed In. Freeline Media critic Milan Paurich contrasts two popular films from 1973 that got a different reaction from the Oscars.
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That this is being allowed is disgusting. Everyone should get free meals at school
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Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here you go
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Glad to hear Stallone turned down Trump’s idiotic “ambassador to Hollywood” offer
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Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I did something extra fun on Saturday: I published my new book A Distant Plague, now available on Amazon as a paperback or ebook. It starts as a topical look at a man losing his apartment in an expensive rental market; but soon shifts into much darker, ominous territory. This one was a joy to write
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As it’s Brian De Palma’s birthday check out my four part monograph on his first Hitchcockian funktacular! It’s fun, funny, profound, and Free! If you like that check out my ongoing serial Henry Vs The World and subscribe, like and restock! josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/sisters-un...
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Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Memory can be a tricky thing. We can have vivid memories, but are we truly remembering it accurately? Freeline Media writer @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social explores memories of his rough and tumble childhood in his striking essay Filth And Alienation. Read on! freelinemediaorlando.com/filth-and-al...
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Filth and Alienation: An Essay At Memory | Freeline Media
Filth and Alienation: An Essay At Memory. Freeline Media contributor Joseph Aisenberg take us on a dark journey into memory.
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sounds cool! www.amazon.com/Dead-Letter-...
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Dead Letter File
Dead Letter File [Chronis, George T.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dead Letter File
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Read this first part of my essay memoir story about my trashy childhood and early racy 20s. A lurid visit to a friend in Tulsa ramifies through my life, reflecting it all. Is it the glory of memory or a distorting lens to perceive the world as ourselves? josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/filth-and-...
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Filth and Alienation Part 1
An Essay At Memory
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Read this first part of my essay memoir story about my trashy racy childhood and my cratered early 20s. A lurid visit to a friend in Tulsa ramifies through my life, reflecting it all. Is it the glory of memory or a distorting lens to perceive the world as ourselves? substack.com/@josephaisen...
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Joseph Aisenberg (@josephaisenberg)
Hey guys, check out this intriguing mélange of memoir, essay and story. It attempts to show the gray line, where memory’s waffly processes, and psychological projection overlap. Are the patterns one s...
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Read this first part of my essay memoir story about my trashy racy childhood and my cratered early 20s. A lurid visit to a friend in Tulsa ramifies through my life, reflecting it all. Is it the glory of memory or a distorting lens to perceive the world as ourselves? substack.com/@josephaisen...
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Joseph Aisenberg (@josephaisenberg)
Hey guys, check out this intriguing mélange of memoir, essay and story. It attempts to show the gray line, where memory’s waffly processes, and psychological projection overlap. Are the patterns one s...
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Check out Henry Vs The World Chap 3 for the latest fashion in strange fiction…Henry gives groovy Sandy a lift to an important meeting, getting weird hints of her life and further drawn in. If you enjoy remember to subscribe, like and restack! josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/henry-vs-t...
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Catch up with the second chapter of my new mind bending Serial Henry Vs The World. Henry goes into Glenn’s shack and finds there strange and wonderous things! Chapter 3 out later today. If you like it subscribe, like and restack josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/henry-vs-t...
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Henry Vs. The World Chapter 2
Sandy
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But he’s dead, meaning there’s no brain activity, how can change his mind?
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 13/09/2026
I am in this but there are great writers in it too The Great Unwatched: 200 Must See Movies You May Have Missed @plumeriapics.bsky.social
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Their house is so smart it’s dumb
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OH MY GOD! BOWEL MOVEMENT HUMOR!!!
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Bert from Sesame Street in Striped Shirt
ALT: Bert from Sesame Street in Striped Shirt
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Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My ★★★★★ review of Napoleon on Letterboxd: boxd.it/ghSpG1 #265MovieReview #movies #filmsky 📽️
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A ★★★★★ review of Napoleon (1927)
I watched this movie because it was a bucket list item for me and I didn’t even realize it was released on DVD and then afterwards I checked my notes and realized that I watched this movie back in 201...
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As it’s Brian De Palma’s birthday check out my four part monograph on his first Hitchcockian funktacular! It’s fun, funny, profound, and Free! If you like that check out my ongoing serial Henry Vs The World and subscribe, like and restock! josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/sisters-un...
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Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Those “Greatest Movies Ever” lists just keep a-comin’! Freeline Media critic @milanpaurich.bsky.social thinks most lists are missing a 1971 black-and-white movie that truly deserves the recognition and honor of being the Greatest American Movie. Read on! freelinemediaorlando.com/movie-talk-t...
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Movie Talk: The Great American Movie | Freeline Media
Movie Talk: The Great American Movie. Freeline Media critic Milan Paurich gives us his vote for what he consider THE great American movie.
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In this excerpt of Marriage goes To The Movies! my heroine Karen’s emotional affair wth her coworker concludes and she finally emerges into the present from dreams within flashbacks within dreams, culminating in this final dream…
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Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You love Noir? Then watch the Hitch-Hiker read ON!
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Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Oh those ultra-gory horror movies with their icky-realistic CGI effects! Nothing can beat them!” Balderdash, says Freeline Media critic @mikeymcfilms.bsky.social. If you want fear and suspense, Mike says, revisit an exceptionally dark film from the 1950s. freelinemediaorlando.com/mike-at-the-...
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Mike At The Movies: Don't Give Him A Ride! | Freeline Media
Mike At The Movies: Don't Give Him A Ride! Freeline Media critic Mike Fried revisits a classic creepy noir that, Mike insists, must be seen!
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In this week’s installment of Henry Vs The World poor assistant accountant Henry enters the mysterious Shack expecting to find Cult leader Glenda’s child, sibling foul Glenn. In the suggestive clutter he finds something else… josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/henry-vs-t...
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Henry Vs. The World Chapter 2
Sandy
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This artwork is an oil painting titled "Level Crossing, San Francisco" (2025) by artist Rob Pointon. From his "Fake Tales of San Francisco" collection.
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
GROSS! Ghost is such a dumb movie
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Make sure to read this! The next chapter is ready to go for next week and you don’t want to be left behind on this new trend in narrative funktification. Free and only a three minute read! Then you too will be in…The Cult
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here’s the first installment of my weekly serial about Henry assistant accountant for The Cult, tasked with finding The Entity Known As Glenda’s rival Glenn for no good reason… substack.com/@josephaisen...
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Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some critics exploded in rage that such a vile, "disgusting" film could ever get made...but it still got an Oscar nod for best picture. Freeline Media critic @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social takes a fresh look at Stanley Kubrick's most polarizing film. Read on! freelinemediaorlando.com/movie-talk-c...
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Movie Talk: Counter Clockwise, Revisiting Kubrick's Horrorshow
Movie Talk: Counter Clockwise, Revisiting Kubrick's Horrorshow. Freeline Media critic Joe Aisenberg looks back at Kubrick's dystopian vision.
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here’s my first substack movie review from my Spoiler Alert series. Plan to write pieces about arbitrary flicks that hit my head for some reason. This gave me a chance to write Brad Pitt josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/spoiler-al...
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Spoiler Alert! Moneyball
Schizophrenic Ball
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Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My ★★½ review of Penny Lane Is Dead on Letterboxd: boxd.it/g4oBvd #265MovieReview #movies #shudder #filmsky 📽️
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A ★★½ review of Penny Lane Is Dead (2025)
November 1986. A girls-only weekend at a beach house during a sweltering Australian summer weekend celebrating Penny Lane’s acceptance to college (or as they call it in Australia, “university”) goes f...
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Joseph Aisenberg @josephaisenberg13.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fact checked this. Read this, factually.co/fact-checks/... Here’s what this is based on
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 27/08/2026
I really poured my heart and soul into this piece. So read it. It won’t cost you a penny/dime/drachma
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