Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...vote.signalaward.comThe Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOUI just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too. 270
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My true-crime podcast about a bizarre kidnapping in rural Ohio is a finalist for a 2026 Signal Award. I’d be grateful if you’d help me grow its audience by giving it a VOTE at the link below! 2365
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Link: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/06/o...bostonglobe.com‘The Odyssey’ and the death of the Hollywood epic - The Boston GlobeThe year’s most celebrated film is destined to be forgotten. 1122
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Labor Day weekend print edition of the Boston Globe: 3482
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It's because of Gloria Steinem that we won't read a New York Times obit about "Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine." RIP. 1934-2026. 0281
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Made a whole thing of tracing Robert Redford’s Gatsby-era footsteps at Rosecliff and Linden Place Mansions 41030
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Trader Joe’s has never let me down when it comes to prunes and Baklava so I’d throw caution to the wind 020
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Ugh. That’s crazy. But it’s always the lady built like Sally Field that joins the melee. 160
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026If anyone’s gonna peel me like a pear it’s gonna be Hepburn 021
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Link to story: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/08/o...bostonglobe.comTrue crime is exploitative schlock. I wanted to do it differently. - The Boston GlobeA kidnapping in the countryside was more than it seemed. 1151
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I wrote about how the genre of "true crime" smugly validates our own moral superiority and enacts rituals of public humiliation. And I wrote about trying to avoid these traps when I created my own podcast, Passenger Seat. 1542
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Look forward to seeing it in print—congratulations!🥂 030
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026My Intuition tells me Apple Music is playing Foolish Games and needs to keep its Hands off the algorithm before it’s crushed into Pieces of You 060
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Whaaaat? You hit the jackpot on femme fatale analysis (and apparently saved many many nickels along the way 🤣) 030
Reposted by Tom JoudreyNoah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026On the eve of the centennial celebrations marked for June 1, here's a piece on the changing perceptions of #MarilynMonroe in today's @bostonglobe.com Ideas section. #MM100 #FilmSky #MovieSky 26111
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Woah my podcast getting mad props from the New Yorker 🕺 4932
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Congratulations! Look forward to your review of the cardamom buns (I hear raves) 140
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026open.spotify.com/episode/615P...open.spotify.comBlue Gatorade 1170
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026My podcast—Passenger Seat—just dropped! It’s a true crime story about a brazen kidnapping, the collateral damage wrought by addiction, and how the best intentions can curdle into tragedy. Spotify link in comments but available everywhere. I hope you’ll check it out! 2502
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I’m seeing Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of 96. His excoriation of crypto normative premises in the work of post-structuralists like Foucault will be a big part of his legacy. 0385
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Therapists call it the pulp fiction stage of the breakup 020
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I wrote about Gus Van Sant, the new queer cinema, and the stalking of immigrants for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/in-praise-of...lwlies.comThe disturbing prescience of Mala NocheForty years ago, Gus Van Sant’s breakout film captured the terror and violence inflicted on immigrants in the United States. Lead actor Tim Streeter… 0572
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025What’s in the 📦? I wrote about the hidden allegory in Se7en for the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...bbc.co.uk'The blight seeped into your soul': How Seven reflected fears in the US in the 1980sDavid Fincher's thriller began with its screenwriter's view of the urban decay and religious conservatism of the Reagan era. But it also predicted our obsession with true crime today. 2782
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I grew up on an apple orchard in rural Ohio, and most of the people who came to pick apples were lovely. Some weren’t. Naturally, I wrote about the ones who weren’t. slate.com/life/2025/09...slate.comI Grew Up on an Apple Orchard. Oh, the Horrors I’ve Seen During You-Pick Season.Oh, the horrors I've seen. 41060
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Thanks Johnnie! Good to know I rose above Salieri’s mediocrity. That was the only bar I wanted to clear really 070
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025For the BBC, I wrote about the divisive legacy of Requiem for a Dream, 25 years on. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...bbc.com'Slumming in a vision of hell': Why Requiem for a Dream is still so divisive, 25 years after its releaseDarren Aronofsky's radical drug-addiction drama was highly acclaimed and angrily slated when it came out in 2000. Today, this Hubert Selby Jr adaptation is no less contentious. 81162
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025www.salon.com/2025/03/23/d...salon.comThe shocking twist of "Dolores Claiborne"? Being a difficult woman isn't a crimeNew interviews with the "Dolores Claiborne" cast and creators reveal how it subverted a popular '90s trope. 5840
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 23/03/202530 years ago, a film adaptation of a bestselling Stephen King novel was released, and it featured what was then a genuinely shocking twist: being a bitch isn’t a crime. I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️ 1751
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Lord Byron. Still mad, bad—and dangerous to know. www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/29/o...bostonglobe.comThe afterlife of corpses - The Boston GlobeWestern cultures once were obsessed with dead bodies. Today we dispose of them with clinical efficiency. Are we missing something important? 1511
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Democracy dies in darkness. We just didn’t know Jeff Bezos would be the one turning off the f-ing lights. 01015
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Can this hellish month be the nail in the coffin of the idea that the billionaire class will “save” us—that, against all evidence, arsonists make the best firefighters? 2980
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025AMADEUS at 40.🎻 www.bbc.com/culture/arti...bbc.com'An unmistakable stab at the USSR': Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner ever?Released 40 years ago this month, Miloš Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point. 111342
