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Justin Hairston

@justinh94.bsky.social
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The artist soon to be known as the artist formerly known as Justin Hairston || writing, sometimes: @bwdr.bsky.social / @electricliterature.com / @crimereads.bsky.social / @broadsoundmag.com justin.hairston.substack.com

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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Had a great time talking to @tylerparker.bsky.social about his book, his sportswriting, and his Sonic order:
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"I Really Like Words"
An interview with novelist and sportswriter Tyler Parker
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 12/04/2026
"Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ is like a Fabergé fidget cube, its many contraptions and bells and whistles held together by so much humor and whimsy and craft as to be almost deliriously entertaining." - @justinh94.bsky.social
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Hot Fuzz and the Comedy of Tactility
Hot Fuzz leverages every perfect match-cut and hilariously blocked visual gag to create something lastingly comforting and deliriously entertaining.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 31/03/2026
New today on the site! "The Greater Good: HOT FUZZ and the Comedy of Tactility" - @justinh94.bsky.social (🎨 by @mosesleeart.bsky.social)
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Hot Fuzz and the Comedy of Tactility
Hot Fuzz leverages every perfect match-cut and hilariously blocked visual gag to create something lastingly comforting and deliriously entertaining.
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thrilled to be back in BW/DR to write about one of my all-time faves, HOT FUZZ
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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 12/02/2026
STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH achieves the "platonic ideal of film criticism" according to @justinh94.bsky.social on Goodreads. Pick up your own copy today!
That platonic ideal of film criticism wherein you come away
with both a greater appreciation for the stuff you already liked about the movie and an eagerness to dive back in with eyes for the stuff you missed.

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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
great piece on a great movie (and a good one)
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Jake Harris (He/Him) @jakeharris4.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Had fun editing this #NYFF63 roundup from @justinh94.bsky.social for @broadsoundmag.com. His writeup on "Sirāt" has me itching for a wide release date: broadsoundmag.com/2025/10/24/t...
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Teardrops Like Rain and Raves in the Desert (Justin Hairston)
On the Whispers and Bangs of NYFF 63 Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lileaas in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value | Credit: Neon An interesting thing about attending a film festival: the context …
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Was honored to cover #NYFF63 for @broadsoundmag.com. A quieter fest than usual, maybe, but that wasn't a bad thing:
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Teardrops Like Rain and Raves in the Desert (Justin Hairston)
On the Whispers and Bangs of NYFF 63 Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lileaas in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value | Credit: Neon An interesting thing about attending a film festival: the context …
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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 03/10/2025
This week I got together with @justinh94.bsky.social and Danny Klain on the @broadsoundmag.com podcast to talk about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and Vineland. iTunes podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6dRA...
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The Broad Sound Book Club: One Battle After Another
Podcast Episode · The Broad Sound Podcast · 10/03/2025 · 1h 31m
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our Vineland read-a-long pod continues at a very Pynchonesque pace - stop, start, fast, slow - but we're back: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Broad Sound Book Club: Vineland (Chs. 6-8)
Podcast Episode · The Broad Sound Podcast · 09/16/2025 · 1h 13m
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 02/08/2025
New today on the podcast feed: @justinh94.bsky.social and @ethanwarrenauthor.com talk through chapters 4 and 5 of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland! Search Broad Sound Podcast wherever you pod! www.buzzsprout.com/2389600/epis...
The cover of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
After a short delay, we’re back—with friends!
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thrilled to be back in @broadsoundmag.com writing about a very American movie and how, well… BRUTALIST it is:
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It’s Brutal Out Here (Justin Hairston)
A24 If it feels impossible to write about a painting movie without using the obvious metaphorical palette, try writing about The Brutalist without comparing it to its subject’s subject. Everything …
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thrilled to be back in @broadsoundmag.com writing about a very American movie and how, well… BRUTALIST it is:
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It’s Brutal Out Here (Justin Hairston)
A24 If it feels impossible to write about a painting movie without using the obvious metaphorical palette, try writing about The Brutalist without comparing it to its subject’s subject. Everything …
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 03/07/2025
New today on the site: "Try writing about The Brutalist without comparing it to its subject’s subject. Everything about its construction seems designed to earn the word monumental." - @justinh94.bsky.social broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/03/i...
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It’s Brutal Out Here (Justin Hairston)
A24 If it feels impossible to write about a painting movie without using the obvious metaphorical palette, try writing about The Brutalist without comparing it to its subject’s subject. Everything …
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
if you don't mind my tendency to go on at length in big long paragraphs, this is really a very good interview
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Honored to be joining @ethanwarren.bsky.social to pod our way through Pynchon's VINELAND this summer in anticipation of PTA's (probable?) adaptation. Join us on the @broadsoundmag.com pod feed:
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The Broad Sound Podcast
Broad Sound has three podcasts housed under the same feed: Eye of the Beholder (Tuesdays): Editor-in-Chief Ethan Warren invites Broad Sound contributors to pick works of art they define as perfect.…
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 21/06/2025
New today on the podcast feed: crack open a new season on the Broad Sound Book Club as @justinh94.bsky.social and @ethanwarren.bsky.social discuss Chapter 1 of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland www.buzzsprout.com/2389600/epis...
A hardcover edition of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland
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Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Went back and re-read this interview from @justinh94.bsky.social last night after finally seeing Sing Sing, and it’s a really great read
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We Can Still Find Light: An interview with the creators of 'Sing Sing'
The creators of 'Sing Sing'—Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, and Monique Walton—on telling stories, hard-won optimism, and the necessity of art.
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
In its own way, what Nathan does on tonight’s Rehearsal finale is as daring and insane as anything Cruise and McQuarrie have ever attempted
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Wrote about three of the best shows of the year (and time as form):
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A Oner, I Wonder?
Continuity in Adolescence, The Studio, and The Pitt
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Had the pleasure of joining this workshop last fall and got so, so much out of it. Highly recommend!
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I'd be shocked if there's a better album this year than the new Bon Iver record. Wrote about it here:
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The Sound of Spring
On Bon Iver's light-filled new album
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Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I love this more than i can possibly say: “Why promote an album with a basketball game? ‘Well, the whole record is about steering to the sunlight or whatever, and being happy,’ he considers. “So that’s what we’re doing.’”
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Bon Iver Threw a Basketball Tournament To Launch ‘SABLE, fABLE’
The new Bon Iver album is about “steering to the sunlight,” so Justin Vernon traded the holocene for the hardwood and invited a few of his friends to an L.A. gym for an exhibition game this weekend. W...
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I'd be shocked if there's a better album this year than the new Bon Iver record. Wrote about it here:
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The Sound of Spring
On Bon Iver's light-filled new album
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Had a blast and a half rambling on to @ethanwarren.bsky.social about a movie that rambles on, and on, and on -- and achieves an imperfect perfection in the process, I'd argue. And I did!
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 25/03/2025
Out now for Patreon supporters: @justinh94.bsky.social defends the perfection of Babylon to a skeptical @ethanwarren.bsky.social on a new Eye of the Beholder www.patreon.com/posts/eye-of...
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Eye of the Beholder: Babylon (2022) | Broad Sound
Get more from Broad Sound on Patreon
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 20/03/2025
“There are far too many other Storror video styles to touch on here, but the breadth of content itself speaks to their understated, multifaceted ability as filmmakers.” - @justinh94.bsky.social broadsoundmag.com/2024/07/27/j...
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Jumping for Joy (Justin Hairston)
In Brighton, East Sussex, a man stands at a rooftop’s edge. It’s not a long gap to the rooftop opposite, but it is three or four stories high. There’s also the fact that the man isn’t just trying t…
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I'll always love @ethanwarren.bsky.social for somehow greenlighting a 4000+ word parkour essay for @broadsoundmag.com. That's the kind of freedom you can usually only feel, say, while jumping across rooftops
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Had a lovely chat with Theo Kandel about songwriting, Guitar Hero 3, slant rhymes, and Miller High Life
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Writing & Thinking & Playing a Song
An interview with singer-songwriter Theo Kandel
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 10/03/2025
We've had essays on... The parkour videos of Storror (by @justinh94.bsky.social) Shakespeare as retold by Verdi and Orson Welles (by @carmenchloie.bsky.social) The photography of Laura Aguilar (by Emma Jones) And Bill Watterson and John Kascht's The Mysteries (by @cairdiul.bsky.social)
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 09/03/2025
CALLING ALL FREELANCERS, ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING: Bring us your dream arts and culture pitches to run at the new BroadSoundMag.com beginning in May. $100 per essay (upon completion of edits). There's no place like Broad Sound. But if you write it, they will come. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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BROAD SOUND: An Evergreen Call for Pitches
BROAD SOUND An Evergreen Call for Pitches As a freelancer, I wonder if you’ve had this thought: “I’d love to write about that, but there’s just no home for it.” It’s a pain I know too well. A topic...
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 05/03/2025
NOW AVAILABLE on every global Amazon marketplace: the long-in-the-works Broad Sound Vol. 2 Part 2. Featuring 10 essays, a poem, and an interview with Guy Maddin. Get it here (PDF edition to come at a later date, but...you want the hard copy, come on) www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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Broad Sound: Volume Two - Part Two
Broad Sound: Volume Two - Part Two [Warren, Ethan, Bonner, Hannah, Leiber, Sarah Jae] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Broad Sound: Volume Two - Part Two
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Honored that the great @ethanwarren.bsky.social let me be the Andrew Lloyd Weber newbie to his scholar to talk about the terrific new SUNSET BLVD. (And honored to share an ep with the great Frank Falisi)
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 04/03/2025
Tomorrow on the podcast feed: Broad Sound in the aisles
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Movies - now more than ever!
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The Best Movies of 2024
Despite reports: a great year at the movies
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Stop the count!
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Continuing my year-enders with a typically eclectic list of books I loved this year
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The Best Books I Read in 2024
Reading on trend and loving it
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 03/12/2024
The creators of SING SING—director Greg Kwedar, co-writer Clint Bentley, and producer Monique Walton—talk with @justinh94.bsky.social about telling stories, hard-won optimism, and the necessity of art.
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We Can Still Find Light: An interview with the creators of 'Sing Sing'
The creators of 'Sing Sing'—Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, and Monique Walton—on telling stories, hard-won optimism, and the necessity of art.
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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 23/11/2024
Have you caught up on the Broad Sound podcast? Hear the newest episode, read by @roninonempty.bsky.social, and then visit the backlog for essays by @dodgyboffin.bsky.social, @bcwallin.com, @justinh94.bsky.social, and more! Available wherever you get your pods! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Why I Teach
Podcast Episode · The Broad Sound Podcast · 11/19/2024 · 19m
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Justin Hairston @justinh94.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m proud of this piece, which combined my love of Rian Johnson and Agatha Christie—easy to do when one is so heavily inspired by the other
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The Christiean Architecture of Rian Johnson's 'Glass Onion' (2022)
'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,' takes the classic structures of a Christie caper and levels them up, building an impossibly polyhedral monument to all that a mystery can be.
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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 17/11/2024
If you don’t know @ethanwarren.bsky.social’s arts & culture journal, Broad Sound, you should really check it out (I might have a couple essays to go around there). If you don’t know the contributors, you should follow them now go.bsky.app/ThzJeoA
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